NEW YORK -- Japan's Nippon Steel will spend $2 billion to $2.5 billion to upgrade U.S. Steel's Mon Valley Works in the state of Pennsylvania, more than double the amount initially pledged by the Japanese steelmaker, the American subsidiary revealed in a report Monday.

PALO ALTO, California -- Apple announced updates to artificial intelligence features in its devices, powered by a close partnership with Google, at its annual developer conference Monday. But Apple Intelligence remains notably missing from the Chinese market.

TOKYO -- Japan plans to assist countries in Southeast Asia, Africa and the wider Global South in developing legal frameworks for intellectual property protection, Nikkei has learned, amid a broader push by the government to boost overseas sales of Japanese content.

TOKYO -- Japanese telecom giant NTT will establish a multinational investment fund worth about $500 million to further the advancement of the group's next-generation optical communications technology, Nikkei has learned.

OSAKA -- Panasonic Holdings plans to nearly quadruple sales from artificial intelligence infrastructure to 2 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) by fiscal 2030 as it introduces new products and boosts production for data center batteries, the Japanese group said on Monday.

TOKYO -- The Japanese government plans to set up an automated lab that will be operated by artificial intelligence and robots to enable around-the-clock bioscience research toward new drug development.

SEOUL -- Nvidia and SK Group on Monday announced plans to collaborate on launching AI factories by 2027 and developing next-generation memory chips, with the deal coming as the U.S. chipmaker's CEO Jensen Huang conducts a whirlwind tour of South Korea's top tech companies.

TOKYO -- Tokyo Gas on Monday announced that it will take part in the joint development of an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal in Malaysia, providing a lower-cost alternative to a land-based terminal.

TOKYO/SEOUL -- Chinese President Xi Jinping met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Monday, as the neighbors tighten their ties against a backdrop of global tensions.

MANILA -- At least 19 people died and 12 are missing after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of the Philippine island of Mindanao on Monday morning, disaster management officials reported.

A further 134 have been injured and many schools, shops, offices and commercial buildings collapsed or sustained damage after the tremor at 7:37 a.m., the Office of Civil Defense said in a statement at 3:20 p.m. local time.

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