SoftBank Project Fee Slashed By Over 90% Amid Uncertainty Over $550 Billion US-Japan Trade Deal: Report

The anticipated ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion) fee for SoftBank Group Corp. from a U.S.-Japan project has been slashed by over 90 ...

Japan rebels over $6bn fee for SoftBank under US trade deal

Simply sign up to the US trade myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. SoftBank was set to earn ¥1tn ($6.3bn) in fees from a flagship US-Japan project before panicking officials in Tokyo ...

SoftBank Sold Nvidia, Borrowed $40 Billion For OpenAI — Here Is Why

Son has done this before — and left $150 billion on the table. He did it again anyway. Here is the stack logic that makes ...

SoftBank eyes up to $40 billion loan to fund OpenAI investment, Bloomberg News reports

March 6 (Reuters) - Japanese conglomerate SoftBank is seeking a loan of up to $40 billion, primarily to finance its investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people ...

(CNW) SoftBank Corp. Evolves Telecom Infrastructure for the AI Era: From Carrying Data to Orchestrating Intelligence

SoftBank is transitioning from a traditional telecommunications carrier into an AI infrastructure provider, orchestrating intelligence across distributed edge and cloud environments to enable devices, ...
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A test for chip testing and SoftBank's stumble

But while the applications of AI keep evolving and the global appetite for more powerful chips keeps growing, the supply ...

Travis Kalanick says 'Masa money' was 'easy' and 'too loose' during SoftBank's hyper-funding era

Kalanick, who raised billions for Uber himself amid SoftBank’s aggressive 2017 investment spree, contrasted this with his own ...