This Softbank-Backed Startup Wants to Put a Professional Economist in Your Pocket
Many modern AI tools are trained with an essentially quantity-over-quality approach to data. Programs such as ChatGPT—known ...
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Joint research agreement of seven organizations for deployable scalable quantum information processing
YOKOHAMA National University signed a joint research agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Quantinuum K.K., Keio University, SoftBank Corp., Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and LQUOM, Inc. Their ...
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SoftBank app SureTalk turns sign language into text
Telecom giant SoftBank Corp. is working with the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo to fine-tune an app called SureTalk that converts sign language gestures into text. When a person ...
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SoftBank in talks to borrow $16 billion to fund AI, The Information reports
(Reuters) - SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son plans to borrow $16 billion to invest in AI, the company's executives told banks last week, The Information tech news website reported on Saturday ...
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SoftBank’s Arm to Drive Malaysia’s $270 Billion Chip Goals
Malaysia, which packages roughly a tenth of the world’s semiconductors, has inked a pact to pay the SoftBank Group Corp.-owned UK firm $250 million over a period of ten years for a slew of ...
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DeepSeek Sparks Investor Pessimism on SoftBank's $500 Billion Stargate Push
(Bloomberg) -- For SoftBank Group Corp. investors looking for the stock to climb back to all-time highs on a revival of the artificial intelligence boom, DeepSeek poses a major hurdle. SoftBank is ...
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SoftBank posts surprise loss of $2.4 billion in third quarter as Vision Fund investments go into red
SoftBank posted a surprise net loss of 369.17 billion yen ($2.4 billion), while LSEG had estimated a profit of 298.53 billion yen. The company's Vision Fund investments clocked a loss of 352.75 ...
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SoftBank Q3 Earnings: Revenue Rises, Vision Fund Takes $2.33 Billion Hit As Investments Falter
Japanese investment holding company SoftBank Group Corp (OTC:SFTBF) (OTC:SFTBY) reported third-quarter net sales of 1.83 trillion yen ($12.11 billion), up from 1.77 trillion yen a year ago.
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SoftBank adds to shares in VTEX, YMM, cuts NMRA and exits DASH, among other moves
The Japanese investment holding company SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY) purchased two new stakes: 20.45M shares in Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), and 14.66M shares in Recursion ...
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SoftBank Swings to a Loss Ahead of Big AI Bet With OpenAI
SoftBank Group Corp. tumbled to a loss in the December quarter, weighed down by a drop in the value of the Vision Fund’s public holdings, just as Masayoshi Son campaigns to raise $500 billion ...
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Former SoftBank CEO’s son launches new $150 million fund
Rohan Misra, son of former SoftBank Group Corp. Vision Fund CEO Rajeev Misra, has launched a new $150 million fund called Gravity Holdings ...
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KU Leuven discovers vulnerable servers at Softbank and millions of others
The Belgian university KU Leuven has uncovered a critical security flaw that exposes computer servers worldwide to potential ...