SoftBank is reportedly considering a historic $25 billion investment in OpenAI, which could surpass Microsoft's stake and position SoftBank as the ChatGPT maker's largest investor.
SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son has made a strategic pivot toward the US market, appearing alongside President Donald Trump twice since his November election victory to unveil major investment plans.
Global shares were mixed in thin Lunar New Year trading on Tuesday after Wall Street's tech superstars tumbled as a competitor from China raised doubts over the recent artificial-intelligence market frenzy.
Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after China rolled out more moves to try to boost its lagging stock markets by raising confidence that prices will rise. Officials in Beijing
SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to lead a $500 million funding round for Skild AI, a startup building robotics software, according to people familiar with the matter.
SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at a $4 billion valuation,
Jack Ma, a cofounder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, will be a visiting professor ... and financial systems in a speech in Shanghai. Ma kept a low profile for several years and traveled ...
US stocks rose on Thursday, with the Nasdaq (^IXIC) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) eyeing a comeback as investors digested news that the US economy expanded slower than economists had expected in the last three months of the year.
US tech giants and Japan chipmaker stocks feel the heat as China's startup DeepSeek demonstrates that it doesn't need massive capital investments to develop cutting edge AI. China's tech shares rallied on prospects of disrupting US tech dominance.
In Tokyo, Japan’s Softbank Group Corp. lost 8.3% and is nearly back ... In Asia, stocks edged 0.1% lower in Shanghai after a survey of manufacturers showed export orders in China dropping ...
A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.