ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -- U.S. President Donald Trump greeted Russian President Vladimir Putin with a handshake ahead of a high-stakes summit in Alaska on Friday that could determine whether a ...

BEIJING -- More than 500 androids will run, kick and play table tennis to show off their capabilities in the world's first Olympic-style humanoid robot games.

TOKYO -- Japan plans to train 30,000 people across Africa in the field of artificial intelligence over three years, looking to promote the digital transformation of manufacturing and agriculture on ...

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group has increased its stake in chipmaker Nvidia, the world's most valuable listed company, part of a strategic shift toward artificial intelligence and away from telecommunications ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -- Nearly 200 people were killed in torrential rains in northwest Pakistan over the past 24 hours, with bad weather also bringing down a rescue helicopter, local officials said on ...

TOKYO -- Japanese restaurant operator The Monogatari Corp. will debut its first all-you-can-eat grilled meat franchise Yakiniku King in the Philippines this month, part of a push to open 10 locations ...

TOKYO -- Major Japanese corporations are staring at a 3.5 trillion yen ($23.6 billion) full-year impact on earnings from U.S.

NEW YORK -- This week's fatal explosion at a U.S. Steel facility is testing Nippon Steel's management two months after it acquired the company, bringing the risk of costs increases on top of $11 ...

TOKYO -- PayPay, a Japanese mobile payment app owned by SoftBank Group, announced Friday that it has applied to list its shares on an unidentified U.S. stock exchange.

JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto outlined Friday his budget plans for next year, including a 7% increase in government spending and a 5.4% growth target, putting more emphasis on his ...

TOKYO -- A month after an upper house election where parties competed to tout plans for cash handouts and tax cuts, Goldman Sachs Japan President Hidehiro Imatsu, a longtime bond trader, told Nikkei ...

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite reached all-time highs late June, thanks to renewed AI enthusiasm, hopes of U.S. trade deals and rising bets on interest rate cuts, which helped drive a turnaround ...