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Japanese companies making toilets, glass fibre and seasonings, not AI chips, are among the AI boom's biggest winners

Artificial intelligence has fuelled a global race to build faster chips, larger data centres and more powerful computing systems, propelling companies like Nvidia into the spotlight. Yet some of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI revolution are businesses that few people would associate with cutting-edge technology. In Japan, manufacturers known…

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“Steve Lukather’s guitar collided with a mic stand. He banked the guitar against it and made it a feature of the song. I don’t even understand!” Toto’s Dennis Atlas and his star-studded solo album

Listen to Principle and you’ll hear Bumblefoot, David Paich, Marco Minneman and others, plus Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Jordan Rudess influences

Louder

"You can't deny Henley's chops as a lyricist, but they are wasted here on trite tunes and lifeless production." Don Henley closes out the 1980s on the all-star The End Of The Innocence

The End Of The Innocence was a poignant reflection on Reagan-era America from Eagles drummer Don Henley

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Weezer announce The Gold Album and it's coming soon

Weezer have dropped new single We Might As Well Be Strangers, and announced a release date for their next album.

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Hold up your phone, hang on to your tissues, we're going in: The 40 greatest power ballads of all time

Break out the inflatable guitars, let those smartphones beam like galaxies of stars: These are the greatest, most heart-stirring, most life-affirming power ballads of them all

Louder

"It's the silliest, most oddball song in our entire catalogue, but it truly hit a nerve." How Toto used a synthesised flute riff and a drum loop to concoct a classic and a cultural phenomenon

Written to get their label off their back, Toto's Africa – written by a man who'd never been there – has become inescapable

Louder

Not the Allbirds effect: Japan's top bidet maker Toto has been quietly making chip supplies for decades, and the stock market finally noticed

Toto didn't just flush its old business to make chips: it's been making the same components to power the world's AI infrastructure for years.

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Kimi Antonelli's support system crucial to F1 title fight, says David Coulthard

David Coulthard believes Kimi Antonelli’s family and Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff will be key to keeping the championship leader focused amid growing pressure

Motorsport

D.C. is warming up to bidets

Some homeowners are building for a bidet before they buy one.

Axios

Seann Walsh ‘mocked’ for not knowing lyrics to Toto’s Africa in I’m A Celeb

The 40-year-old comedian is seen panicking during the bushtucker trial when quizzed on the lyrics to the famous song.

Evening Standard

"They told us we couldn't say anything to Paul about the Beatles. We were bummed out." The day that Toto guitarist Steve Lukather defied orders and jammed Beatles songs with Paul McCartney

If anyone tells you 'Never meet your heroes', ignore them

Louder

“I think it’s too dumb for anybody to insult their own intelligence by mounting a serious critique of it”: How Toto crafted their deathless classic, Africa

Song has streamed over a billion times

MusicRadar

Cool new proggy sounds you'll want to hear from Anneke Van Giersbergen, Gazpacho, Einar Solberg, The Claypool Lennon Delirium and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Heavy Axe, Antariksh, Hedvig Mollestand Weejuns, Dennis Atlas and more in Tracks Of The Week

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Japanese toilet manufacturer reportedly 'most undervalued and overlooked' beneficiary of AI boom

Flush with cash.

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Japanese toilet maker 'the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary,' investors claim — shares up nearly 40% in first two months of 2026

A company most famous for toilets and bidets is seeing meteoric stock growth due to demand for its advanced ceramics products.

MusicRadar

“That’s called the lazy musician’s way”: Greg Phillinganes schools Clyde Lawrence on how to play the piano part in Toto’s Rosanna correctly

The Lawrence member had been tasked with learning the song by ear as quickly as possible

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“All of these guys were behind the glass looking at me like, ‘You better bring it, kid’: Steve Lukather remembers his high pressure first solo for Toto

He nailed Hold The Line in one take

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“I said, ‘That will get us pigeonholed as a Christian band, and that’s not what we want to do.’ I remember thinking, ‘This is the kiss of death!’”: The singer who had a bad feeling about a song – before it ended up going all the way to No.1

Plus: why this singer would have refused an audition for Toto

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‘Happy by Pharrell is exceedingly annoying – but I love it’: DJ Roger Sanchez’s honest playlist

The DJ does Journey at karaoke and gets the party started with Daft Punk. But which Stevie Wonder track would he like played at his funeral?

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Toto, Christopher Cross and The Romantics announce mammoth North American tour

Your opportunity to ride like the wind while blessing the rains down in Africa

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"Radio-ready songs without a hint of indulgence and a powerhouse lead singer at the fore": Foreigner arrive fully-formed and formidable on debut album

While punk rock was big news in 1977, the radio-friendly rock of Foreigner was still perfectly timed

Louder

Toto announce An Evening With Toto US tour with new setlist

Toto will return to American theatres in February and March 2026

MusicRadar

“People would ask me, ‘What's it like to replace Keith Moon?’ I said, ‘I didn't replace Keith Moon – I replaced Kenney Jones!’”: How a legendary drummer followed in the footsteps of two other legendary drummers in The Who

“I saw The Who live with Kenney – and he was absolutely fantastic"

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“Everybody knew Jeff was a great drummer. It was the same when I joined The Who to replace Kenney Jones – and when I was with Mick Jagger, playing the Stones tunes that Charlie played”: How Simon Phillips succeeded in replacing Jeff Porcaro in Toto

"They didn't want somebody to come in and try to imitate Jeff"

The Independent UK

The Berkeley, London, hotel review

HOTELS: Despite The Berkeley being more than 125 years old, Harriet Brewis discovers what futuristic features the hotel is hiding behind its historic walls, from high-tech toilets to a state-of-the-art gym

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