Microsoft on Tuesday announced its biggest-ever Asia investment, amounting to $17.5 billion, in India over the next four years to advance the country’s cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure ...

The number of Japanese language learners in Japan reached a record 294,198 last year, a recent government survey showed, underscoring the need to offer more learning opportunities to cope with rising ...

Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after U.S. stocks rose to near their records. The futures for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average were slightly higher. Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed 2.

The Japanese government aims to eventually raise the individual usage of generative artificial intelligence to 80 percent from around 25 percent in fiscal 2024, as the country lags in the use of the ...

Amazon Web Services launched its in-house-built Trainium3 AI chip on Tuesday, marking a significant push to compete with Nvidia in the lucrative market for artificial intelligence computing power. The ...

Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under 16 from Wednesday, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube ‌and Meta's Instagram and Facebook.

Pacific’s top performer for inbound tourism recovery following the pandemic. According to the Pacific Asia Travel Association’s "Annual Tourism Monitor 2025," in the first six months of this year ...

More than 150 Chinese companies are making humanoid robots but a market bubble risks forming in the rapidly growing futuristic industry, a Beijing official has warned. Government support and strong ...

President Donald Trump said Monday he had reached an agreement with President Xi Jinping to allow US chip giant Nvidia to export advanced artificial intelligence chips to China. The announcement ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is considering visiting the United States in mid-January to hold talks with his counterpart Pete Hegseth, sources familiar with Japan-U.S. relations said ...

The spate of bear encounters in Japan has certainly been surprising for many reasons, but one thing that caught my attention especially is that they seem pretty good at using automatic doors. ▼ Just ...

Behind the hoopla over the promise of artificial intelligence lay difficult realities, including how such technology might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world. A new report by ...