Asian shares trade mostly lower after AI stocks sink on Wall Street

Asian shares were trading mostly lower Tuesday, after artificial-intelligence stocks slid overnight.

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged in morning trading but lost some of those earlier gains in afternoon trading, to be up 0.2% at 63,621.08.

Softbank Group, the Japanese giant that is a major investor of OpenAI, jumped about 8% in Tokyo afternoon trading, recouping its overnight losses.