(Reuters) - Nearly 19 million Americans are expected to go on cruise vacations this year, but passenger growth is likely to cool off after seeing a boom post pandemic, travel group AAA forecast on Monday. Passenger volume this year is projected to grow 4.5% from 2024, when 18.2 million Americans went on ocean cruises, according to the industry group. The...

TOKYO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Canadian investment firm Brookfield Asset Management ( BAM ) said on Monday it has closed two real-estate investments in Japan worth a combined $1.6 billion. The investments comprise a stake in Tokyo's landmark Gajoen complex, a mixed-use office, retail and luxury hotel, and a 1 million square foot (93,000 square metre) plot in the outskirts...

BEIJING, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Chinese startup DeepSeek's AI Assistant on Monday overtook rival ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States. Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, which its creators say tops the leaderboard among open-source models and rivals the most advanced closed-source models globally, the artificial intelligence application has surged in...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Nearly 19 million Americans are expected to go on cruise vacations this year, but passenger growth is likely to cool off after seeing a boom post pandemic, travel group AAA forecast on Monday. Passenger volume this year is projected to grow 4.5% from 2024, when 18.2 million Americans went on ocean cruises, according to the industry...