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By Anton Bridge and Miho Uranaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese tyre maker Bridgestone has more than halved the value of a planned ...

President Donald Trump’s ambitious $500 billion Stargate Project is eyeing future investment potential in the UK, according to the Financial ...

OpenAI has named labor leader Dolores Huerta and three others to a temporary advisory board that will help guide the ...

Japanese technology investment group SoftBank Group plans to raise 600 billion yen ($4.10 billion) by issuing bonds to retail ...

Japanese investment conglomerate Softbank Group (SFTBY) (JP:9984) is set to raise roughly $4.1 billion (600 billion yen) in its largest-ever retail bond issuance to date, according to Reuters. The ...

Japan's SoftBank Group says it will make follow-on investments of up to 40 billion dollars in the US developer of ChatGPT. SoftBank Group announced the deal with OpenAI on Tuesday. It says it will ...

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a funding round led by investment giant SoftBank as it looks to stave off competition like Elon Musk’s xAI and China-based DeepSeek.

(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking a loan of as much ... projects in both robotics and semiconductors. Although the Japanese company is teaming up with OpenAI, Oracle Corp. and Abu ...

President Trump was joined by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Photo: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg News The Japanese technology investment company ...

OpenAI said on Monday it would raise up to $40 billion in a new funding round led by SoftBank Group at a $300 billion valuation to advance AI research, expand computational infrastructure and enhance ...