This photo taken on on November 25, 2025 shows a guide demonstrating the Casio 14-A calculator, invented in 1957, at the Toshio Kashio Memorial Museum of Invention in Tokyo. Artificial intelligence may eventually call time on the humble plastic calculator, but Japan's Casio still sells tens of millions each year and even sees opportunities for expansion. Generative AI models are closing in on human mathematicians' skills -- achieving gold-level scores for the first time this year at a prestigious global competition. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-THAILAND-BUSINESS-TECHNOLOGY-AI-CALCULATORS' by Katie Forster, with Watsamon Tri-Yasakda

This photo taken on November 12, 2025 shows calculator parts along the assembly line at the Casio factory in Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province. Artificial intelligence may eventually call time on the humble plastic calculator, but Japan's Casio still sells tens of millions each year and even sees opportunities for expansion. Generative AI models are closing in on human mathematicians' skills -- achieving gold-level scores for the first time this year at a prestigious global competition. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-THAILAND-BUSINESS-TECHNOLOGY-AI-CALCULATORS' by Katie Forster and Watsamon Tri-Yasakda

This photo taken on on November 25, 2025 shows a Casio employee demonstrating current calculator models at the Toshio Kashio Memorial Museum of Invention in Tokyo. Artificial intelligence may eventually call time on the humble plastic calculator, but Japan's Casio still sells tens of millions each year and even sees opportunities for expansion. Generative AI models are closing in on human mathematicians' skills -- achieving gold-level scores for the first time this year at a prestigious global competition. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-THAILAND-BUSINESS-TECHNOLOGY-AI-CALCULATORS' by Katie Forster, with Watsamon Tri-Yasakda

In this photo taken on on November 25, 2025, the four Kashio brothers who invented and built the Casio 14-A calculator in 1957, are seen standing behind the calculators in a photo displayed at the Toshio Kashio Memorial Museum of Invention in Tokyo. Artificial intelligence may eventually call time on the humble plastic calculator, but Japan's Casio still sells tens of millions each year and even sees opportunities for expansion. Generative AI models are closing in on human mathematicians' skills -- achieving gold-level scores for the first time this year at a prestigious global competition. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-THAILAND-BUSINESS-TECHNOLOGY-AI-CALCULATORS' by Katie Forster, with Watsamon Tri-Yasakda

This photo taken on November 18, 2025 shows calculators for sale in a market in Bangkok. Artificial intelligence may eventually call time on the humble plastic calculator, but Japan's Casio still sells tens of millions each year and even sees opportunities for expansion. Generative AI models are closing in on human mathematicians' skills -- achieving gold-level scores for the first time this year at a prestigious global competition. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-THAILAND-BUSINESS-TECHNOLOGY-AI-CALCULATORS' by Katie Forster and Watsamon Tri-Yasakda

This photo taken on November 12, 2025 shows workers assembling calculators at the Casio factory in Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province. Artificial intelligence may eventually call time on the humble plastic calculator, but Japan's Casio still sells tens of millions each year and even sees opportunities for expansion. Generative AI models are closing in on human mathematicians' skills -- achieving gold-level scores for the first time this year at a prestigious global competition. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-THAILAND-BUSINESS-TECHNOLOGY-AI-CALCULATORS' by Katie Forster and Watsamon Tri-Yasakda

This photo taken on November 18, 2025 shows Thitinan Suntisubpool using a calculator at her shop in Bangkok. Artificial intelligence may eventually call time on the humble plastic calculator, but Japan's Casio still sells tens of millions each year and even sees opportunities for expansion. Generative AI models are closing in on human mathematicians' skills -- achieving gold-level scores for the first time this year at a prestigious global competition. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-THAILAND-BUSINESS-TECHNOLOGY-AI-CALCULATORS' by Katie Forster and Watsamon Tri-Yasakda

(FILES) The new Frank Gehry-designed Chau Chak Wing Business School building at the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS) is pictured on February 3, 2015. The new building, with a curving façade which was created using hand-placed bricks and glass slabs, opened on February 2 to much fanfare amidst various opinions over its design. AFP PHOTO / Saeed KHAN. Famed US-Canadian architect Frank Gehry, whose prolific portfolio included the Guggenheim Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, died December 5, 2025, aged 96 at his home in California, his office told AFP. (Photo by SAEED KHAN / AFP via Getty Images)