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The Korea Composite Stock Price Index and the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations are displayed at the Korea Exchange in Seoul on March 4.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 28, 2026
South Korea passes U.K. to become world’s eighth-largest stock market
The total market capitalization of Korean-listed companies has surged more than 45% this year to $4.04 trillion, while the U.K.’s has climbed about 3% to $3.99 trillion.
The Manus decision comes just weeks before China’s Xi Jinping and the U.S. president are scheduled to meet at a high-profile summit.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 28, 2026
Xi tests China’s reach by blocking already-done Meta deal
The country’s powerful state planner decreed Monday that the deal must be canceled — four months after it was sealed.
People wait to enter the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland, California, on Monday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 28, 2026
Elon Musk trial against Sam Altman to reveal OpenAI power struggle
The bitter legal fight may come down to a few pages in one executive’s personal diary.
A stock ticker displays market information inside the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 20. Indonesia, along with India and the Philippines, has seen strained trade balances and tumbling stocks as a result of higher oil prices.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 27, 2026
AI boom drowns out war fears to fuel Asia’s great market divide
Investors are punishing economies exposed to higher energy costs while looking past near-term risks to gain exposure to industries seen as critical to future growth.
Sembcorp employees stand on a patch of disused land earmarked as a future site for a data center on the Wilton International site near Middlesbrough, England, on March 27. The utilities company has been serving petrochemical customers for decades but the decline of the industry has now left it with spare land — and power.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 27, 2026
Data-center builders eyeing AI gold rush waiting years for U.K. grid connections
High demand has pushed out wait times to between 12 and 15 years, driving up prices for land with power generation or an existing high-power grid connection.
AI-driven job disruption fears are rising, but a stable labor market and limits on technology adoption are likely to delay widespread job losses in the near term.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 26, 2026
The AI job apocalypse is being delayed
Job losses due to technological disruption tend to come in recessionary bursts rather than in a linear fashion.
A Justice Ministry panel discusses how the voices of individuals should be protected under publicity and portrait rights, amid a rise in the unauthorized use of celebrities' voices by generative artificial intelligence, at the ministry in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2026
Japan to protect celebrity voices against AI use
The Justice Ministry is set to compile guidelines on the scope and standards for illegal acts under current law by this summer.
DeepSeek has unveiled preview versions of a long-awaited new flagship model called V4, which costs less than many alternatives to use but doesn’t meaningfully narrow the U.S. lead in AI capabilities.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 25, 2026
DeepSeek’s long-awaited new model fails to narrow U.S. lead in AI
DeepSeek unveiled the V4 Flash and V4 Pro series on Friday, touting top-tier performance in coding benchmarks and big advancements in reasoning and agentic tasks.
Andon Market in San Francisco represents a vision, however flawed, of a future when more sophisticated AI agents take over work traditionally done by humans.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 24, 2026
An AI agent takes over a store and orders too many candles
The San Francisco shop represents a vision, however flawed, of a future when more sophisticated AI agents take over work traditionally done by humans.
Softbank Corp. CEO and President Junichi Miyakawa
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 24, 2026
SoftBank prepares to manufacture batteries for AI data centers
The Tokyo-based group is one of the world’s foremost supporters of AI, having committed hundreds of billions of dollars to investment in data centers, cloud services and startups.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and the head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, attend an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo in February 2025.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 23, 2026
SoftBank is going all in on OpenAI, but at what cost?
SoftBank Group’s founder Masayoshi Son invested in OpenAI despite potential exposure to a liquidity crunch.
An interactive display at the iRootech Technology Co. offices in Guangzhou, China, on April 15. There is growing appetite in the U.S. Congress for restricting the flow of AI technology to China.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 23, 2026
AI export control measures aimed at China gain steam in U.S. House
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee is seeking to close what lawmakers see as loopholes allowing China to access powerful U.S. technology including Nvidia chips.
Anthropic's Mythos, a powerful new AI model, signals a turning point in cybersecurity, where advanced AI tools may democratize powerful hacking capabilities faster than governments and companies can respond.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 23, 2026
New AI tool reshapes the cybersecurity landscape
There appears to be consensus that Mythos represents a “step change” in capability and is a taste of the new digital world that we now inhabit.
Apple has ⁠expressed some willingness to use AI technology developed by rivals when needed.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 23, 2026
In the AI era, Apple’s strengths may become its constraints
For decades, Apple’s tightly managed ecosystem helped turn the iPhone into the most successful consumer product in history, but AI innovation may call for more openness.
Immediately after a magnitude 7.7 quake off the Sanriku coast of northeastern Japan on Monday, many posts on X claimed the temblor was artificial.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2026
Misinformation spreads on social media after northeastern earthquake
Many posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, claimed that the temblor was artificial.
A professional table tennis player competes against Sony AI autonomous robot Ace in December in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 23, 2026
Table tennis robot Ace makes history by beating top-level human players
The feat could presage an array of other applications for similarly adept robots.
SoftBank has been piling on debt as its founder Masayoshi Son seeks to position himself as a linchpin in the global AI boom, with large-scale investments into OpenAI.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 23, 2026
SoftBank seeks $10 billion margin loan backed by OpenAI shares
SoftBank has been piling on debt as its founder Masayoshi Son seeks to position himself as a linchpin in the global AI boom.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2026
Japan finance minister to discuss Mythos threat with banks
Satsuki Katayama plans to meet officials from the country’s biggest financial institutions to discuss Anthropic’s latest AI model as early as this week.
One-person company SoloNest founder Karen Dai prepares for a coffee chat at a conference room in Shanghai on April 12.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 22, 2026
Young Chinese use AI to launch one-person firms over job anxiety
Rapidly advancing AI tools are being seen as a welcome teammate even as they threaten layoffs at existing firms.
The Reserve Bank of Australia building in Sydney
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 22, 2026
Reserve Bank of Australia monitoring Anthropic’s Mythos AI over cyberattack fears
Anthropic has said Mythos can identify and exploit vulnerabilities “in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user.”
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Why is the yen so weak and what can Japan do about it?
Japan spent ¥11.7 trillion ($73 billion) between late April and late May to prop up the weak yen.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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