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Arm and SoftBank contribute $15.5M to advance AI through Carnegie Mellon University’s partnership with Keio University

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Arm and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) announced last Thursday that Arm and SBG will contribute $15.5 million to CMU to support its partnership with Keio University (Keio), a collaboration to accelerate the global advancement of artificial intelligence (AI).

SoftBank, Tether, Bitfinex team up to launch Bitcoin-native venture

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 to raise $40B in Softbank-led funding at $300B valuation

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.

SoftBank, Temasek among eFishery investors facing near wipeout – report

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.

SoftBank partners Quantinuum for practical application of quantum computing

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.

Trump unveils $500B major AI infrastructure venture led by Softbank, Oracle & OpenAI

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.

Temasek-backed Indonesian unicorn eFishery suspends founders, appoints interim CEO, CFO – report

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…

Softbank acquires United Kingdom chip start-up Graphcore

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

Singtel, Deutsche Telekom, e&, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp team up for developing multilingual Telco LLM

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).

Softbank-backed Carro seeks valuation above $2B as it prepares for IPO- report

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.