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SoftBank Group Corp., Tether and Bitfinex have teamed up to launch Twenty One Capital, Inc., a bitcoin-native company, through a business combination with Cantor Equity Partners (CEP).

OpenAI Global, LLC, a United States-based artificial intelligence (AI) research and development company, has announced a new funding of $40 billion led by Softbank at a post-money valuation of $300 billion.

None of eFishery’s PondTag sensors that were supposed to help remotely judge water quality and automate fish and shrimp feeders had been deployed. The limited data collection meant fish feed predictions were wrong almost half the time, the document said.

Japan-based internet services company SoftBank Corp. and global quantum computing firm Quantinuum announced Wednesday that they have agreed to a wide-ranging partnership in quantum computing.

The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX, who will work in close collaboration with technology partners Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI, to advance cutting-edge AI capabilities, drive economic growth, and shape a future driven by innovation and opportunity.

In July last year, eFishery announced it has raised $200 million in its Series D funding round. The round was led by Abu Dhabi-based global fund manager 42XFund and backed by Malaysia’s largest public sector pension fund, Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) (KWAP), Switzerland-based asset manager responsAbility, early investor multi-stage venture…

Japanese venture capital fund Softbank Group Corp. has acquired United Kingdom chip start-up Graphcore for an undisclosed sum.

Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel), Deutsche Telekom, e&, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp., the founding parties of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA), have signed a joint venture (JV) agreement focused on co-developing and launching a multilingual Telco Large Language Models (LLM).

Carro is raising capital during one of the hardest possible times for fledgling firms. The Southeast Asia technology industry has been plagued by job cuts, CEO resignations and falling startup valuations, making it difficult for companies to debut on public markets.

Humane Inc has on Thursday revealed plans for a telco partnership with SoftBank Corp.(SoftBank) for the Humane Ai Pin, the first stand-alone Ai device and proprietary Ai-driven OS, CosmOS. This partnership, as part of a strategic investment opportunity, will see SoftBank become the exclusive telecom provider for Ai Pin in Japan, leveraging SoftBank’s…