Nvidia is negotiating to financially back OpenAI's 20-year lease of a $500 billion data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, as part of the Stargate initiative. The facility will deliver 10 gigawatts o…
SoftBank announced on March 27, 2026 a $40 billion unsecured bridge facility to fund its $30 billion follow-on investment in OpenAI, with JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Ba…
Nvidia is in advanced talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, backing a 10-gigawatt data center project in southern Ohio developed by SoftBank's SB Energy, the Wall S…
SoftBank has secured a $40 billion unsecured bridge facility, its largest dollar-denominated borrowing ever, with 21 lenders including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Mizuho Bank to fund a $30 bill…
Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The guarantees would help OpenA…
Nvidia is discussing a roughly $250 billion financial backstop to help OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt data center project in southern Ohio, according to a Reuters report citing The Wall Street Journal. Th…
Generative AI patent families nearly tripled from roughly 14,000 in 2023 to over 37,800 by 2025, according to a World Intellectual Property Organization report, with China filing six times more invent…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has allocated ¥1.23 trillion for AI and semiconductor support in fiscal 2026, including ¥387.3 billion for domestic foundation models and physical AI, a…
SoftBank is not confirmed to be in acquisition talks with Gravis Robotics, despite the Zurich startup being a strategic fit for SoftBank's growing robotics portfolio. SoftBank has already agreed to bu…
OpenAI plans to spend over $30 billion on a 3.2-gigawatt data center near Savannah, Georgia, codenamed Project Camellia, with $20 billion committed to qualify for local incentives. The company is open…
OpenAI launched Presence, an enterprise service for deploying voice and chat agents that can automate customer and employee support tasks, claiming the system resolves 75% of inbound issues without hu…
OpenAI has raised its projected infrastructure spending through 2030 to $750 billion, a 25% increase from $600 billion earlier this year, driven by cloud deals with Oracle, AWS, and Microsoft Azure to…
OpenAI launched Presence on July 22, an enterprise platform for deploying AI voice and chat agents that resolved 75% of inbound calls on OpenAI's own support line without human intervention. The platf…
Japan has launched a state-backed company called Noetra to build a foundational model for physical AI and robots, backed by over 380 billion yen ($2.33 billion) in first-year government funding and a …
Noetra CEO Hironobu Tamba called his robot AI startup a 'last chance' for Japan to matter in the coming wave of artificial intelligence, as the Tokyo-based company leads a state-backed programme with …
SoftBank launched a trial of GaranAI, a platform that processes news articles into data for generative AI development, with participating publishers including Mainichi Newspapers, Sankei Shimbun, and …
Samsung Electronics launched a CEO-led Robotics eXperience Business Office (RX) on July 21, consolidating robotics strategy, core technology, and commercialization under device chief TM Roh, and hired…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang concluded a two-day visit to Tokyo on July 16, securing deals to build a national AI factory with Japan's Noetra consortium and partnerships with top robotics firms including F…
Private enterprises now drive 60% of China's surging AI job market, shifting demand toward experienced commercial deployment engineers rather than theoretical researchers, according to recruitment pla…
China's 2025 National Science and Technology Awards prioritized Star Market-listed semiconductor firms like AMEC and Piotech, targeting specific production bottlenecks to bypass Western lithography re…