Skild AI, a startup founded in 2023, has raised a $1.4 billion Series C led by SoftBank to develop a general-purpose AI brain for any robot, aiming to overcome the fragmentation in robotics AI. The co…
Anthropic suspended its Fable 5 AI model within three days after U.S. government concerns over security protocols, highlighting a growing rift between U.S. regulatory policies and East Asian market re…
Behavox raised $175 million in preferred equity from BlackRock's HPS Investment Partners to expand its AI compliance platform and pursue acquisitions. The regtech company, which counts ten of the 24 G…
Leaked audited financial documents show OpenAI lost $38.53 billion in 2025, with $20.92 billion in operating losses despite $13.07 billion in revenue, as the company burns through cash on compute and …
MWC Barcelona 2026 focused on AI infrastructure, with companies like Supermicro, NVIDIA, and telecom giants showcasing AI-RAN and sovereign AI solutions. CME Group launched the first compute futures c…
SoftBank and OpenAI launched a cybersecurity service called "Patching as a Service" on Tuesday, designed to protect Japan's critical infrastructure from AI-powered cyberattacks. The service uses OpenA…
OpenAI spent $34bn in 2025, more than double its $13bn revenue, as it prepares for a potential $1tn IPO. The company's massive spending on R&D, infrastructure, and staffing reflects the high cost of l…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said on the "20VC" podcast that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang taught him to "always stay on your toes" with a mentality that Nvidia could be "30 days away from going out of b…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas shared two founder lessons from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the '20VC' podcast, emphasizing Huang's mentality of being 30 days from going out of …
OpenAI's losses surged to $38.5 billion in 2025, up from $5.09 billion in 2024, as spending hit $34 billion against $13.07 billion in revenue, according to audited financial documents. The massive los…
ABB Robotics LLC is collaborating with PSYONIC to advance dexterous robotic manipulation by combining ABB's GoFa robot with PSYONIC's Ability Hand, using real-world data from human prosthetic users to…
Asian tech stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest gains. SoftBank rose 10%, SK Hynix climbed 6.42…
Patsnap, an AI-powered intellectual property analytics firm backed by SoftBank, Tencent, and Sequoia Capital, has filed confidentially for a dual IPO in Hong Kong and Singapore that could raise up to …
France hosts the G7 summit from 15-17 June, with President Emmanuel Macron pushing artificial intelligence to the forefront of the agenda and positioning France as Europe's AI powerhouse. However, the…
South Korea's AI ambitions face a growing electricity bottleneck as data center power demands surge, with experts warning that grid capacity—not GPU availability—is now the primary constraint. The gov…
Americans across the country are rallying against the AI-inspired data center boom, with local lawmakers issuing restrictions, moratoriums, or outright bans on construction. A Business Insider investi…
Ollie Wagner, one of Apple's first emoji designers, revealed in an interview that he designed over 300 emoji for the original Apple set as an intern in 2008, working from a SoftBank spreadsheet and su…
SoftBank’s attempt to secure a loan using its stake in OpenAI was rejected by creditors, according to sources familiar with the matter. The Japanese conglomerate had sought to borrow against its holdi…
SoftBank attempted to secure a $6 billion loan using its stake in OpenAI as collateral, but the Japanese conglomerate's shares subsequently plunged 9.7%. The failed borrowing effort and stock decline …
OpenAI is negotiating to lease a planned 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, with Nvidia potentially serving as a financial guarantor for the project. The site, developed by SoftBank-owned SB Energy on f…