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A SpaceX Super Heavy booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off on its 11th test flight at the company's launch pad in Starbase, Texas, on Oct. 13.
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Oct 31, 2025
International collaboration seen as key to commercial space tourism in Japan
When it comes to furthering the potential of future space travel, Japan is behind countries like the U.S., making collaboration essential.
Two robots automating tasks at Arikawa Seisakusho in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Oct 31, 2025
Government to help rural businesses adopt robots amid labor shortage
Aimed at boosting productivity despite labor shortages, a new group will train advisers to help companies introduce and use robotics effectively.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman announces a zero-carbon city called “The Line” to be built at NEOM, a futuristic city in the desert by the Red Sea, in northwestern Saudi Arabia, in 2021.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 30, 2025
Saudi Arabia plans to refocus $925B fund after gigaproject delays, source says
Analysts have said many of the gigaprojects have not yet yielded sufficient returns to justify their lofty price tags, as several remain far from completion.
Honda has halted production at its Mexico plant due to a semiconductor shortage caused by supply disruptions from Netherlands-headquartered Chinese chipmaker Nexperia, officials said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2025
Honda halts production at Mexico plant amid chip shortage
The Japanese automaker is making arrangements to resume operations, but the timeline for that remains unclear.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during an event in Washington on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 30, 2025
Nvidia becomes first $5 trillion firm as AI rally picks up steam
Nvidia has become the most-important stock in a bull market that’s been driven by optimism for AI to revolutionize the global economy.
Tareq Amin, CEO of Saudi Arabian artificial intelligence startup Humain, attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh on May 13.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 29, 2025
Saudi AI chief vows to avoid Huawei tech in bid for U.S. chips
Tareq Amin, the head of Saudi Arabia’s artificial intelligence startup Humain, is confident the U.S. will clear the sale of advanced chips to the kingdom.
KDDI said its AI service, which will be launched in spring 2026, will “protect the rights of content providers.”
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 29, 2025
KDDI enters into ‘responsible’ AI agreement with Google
The “responsible” AI service would only shows content that creators have given consent to.
Meta's pursuit of AI advancement without a strong safety culture has led to serious risks — especially for children — and unless the company fundamentally reforms its priorities, more harm is inevitable.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2025
Meta’s chatbot scandal is really a culture problem
It was bad enough when the company didn’t prioritize safety with social media. The stakes with AI are even higher.
Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets in a barrel at a factory in China
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2025
Rare-earth producers look to U.S.-led boom to blunt China’s power
U.S. companies are working to expand supplies of the tiny but vital industrial components at the heart of a global trade showdown.
Richard Attias has credited the Future Investment Initiative with playing a crucial role in driving investment, generating as much as $190 billion in deals since its 2017 launch.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 28, 2025
Saudi power broker pitches kingdom’s AI pivot to Wall Street
Richard Attias, who spent the past decade courting investors to back Saudi Arabia, credited the Future Investment Initiative with playing a crucial role in driving investment.
Unitree robot dogs climb a flight of stairs during a demonstration in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on March 21.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2025
Robot dogs and AI drone swarms: How China could use DeepSeek for war
A review of research papers, patents and procurement records gives a snapshot of Beijing's systematic effort to harness artificial intelligence for military advantage.
The U.S. government is partnering with Advanced Micro Devices to build two supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from nuclear power to cancer treatments to national security.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 28, 2025
U.S. Department of Energy forms $1B supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD
The U.S. is building two supercomputers to run increasingly complex experiments that require harnessing enormous amounts of data-crunching capability.
Amazon has been trimming smaller numbers of jobs over the past two years across multiple divisions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2025
Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say
The company’s largest cut since 2022 represents nearly 10% of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees.
OpenAI's latest blunder over its GPT-5 model's supposed solution to unsolved math problems highlights the gap between the current state of AI, which excels at pattern matching, and promises of superintelligence.
COMMENTARY
Oct 28, 2025
OpenAI’s latest ‘breakthrough’ is a sobering reality check
The company’s latest model had simply scraped answers off the internet and regurgitated them as its own.
Investors appear to be skeptical that artificial intelligence will generate widespread prosperity despite its potential for significant profits in certain sectors.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2025
What does the market really think about AI?
Investors appear to be skeptical that artificial intelligence will generate widespread prosperity despite its potential for significant profits in certain sectors.
An Apollo Go vehicle in Dubai
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 27, 2025
Chinese robotaxis race Waymo to take driverless cars global
The dominant EV industry China has built for decades gives its autonomous-vehicle companies a potential advantage over U.S. hopefuls.
Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank is turning to expensive hybrid bonds and other financing methods to fund its $30 billion investment in OpenAI, as it faces growing pressure from high debt, low cash flow and competition from AI giants like Nvidia.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 26, 2025
SoftBank’s OpenAI ambition is far too grand for banks
On a stand-alone basis, as of the end of June, the company held more than twice as many bonds as bank loans.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
Hopes for Xi-Trump summit dampened by tough Beijing moves and rising tension
Even if the talks get back on track, experts say a narrow deal on a few issues is the most likely outcome.
The Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Any sweeping technology restrictions on China could disrupt a fragile U.S. economy already absorbing the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
U.S. considers broad software curbs on China, White House says
The acknowledgment came following a report that the U.S. was weighing efforts similar to the curbs implemented against Russia.
SoftBank has raised at least $24 billion in loans and bonds so far in 2025 and is seeking to raise more in the overseas bond market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 22, 2025
SoftBank seeks $2 billion in bond sales as it chases AI bets
The Japanese technology investment giant has raised at least $24 billion in loans and bonds so far in 2025.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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