SoftBank
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OpenAI has teamed up with SoftBank to launch SB OpenAI Japan, a joint venture developing AI tools and models specifically for Japanese businesses. -
SoftBank is reportedly in talks to increase its investment in OpenAI, potentially injecting up to $25 billion into the ChatGPT maker.
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Nokia has secured a trifecta of contracts with internet exchange (IX) providers to improve network performance.
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Business Telecommunications Services (BTS) has been named the exclusive global provider of A2P SMS services for BBIX, a SoftBank subsidiary, strengthening their five-year partnership.
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Japan’s biggest telcos have teamed up to launch a joint framework to ensure network communications can be quickly restored in the event of a large-scale disaster.
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Nvidia is working with SoftBank to reinvent telecom networks to make them capable of supporting AI-RAN, enabling them to run AI and 5G workloads at the same time.
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SoftBank will be floating shares in its chip design company, Arm, following the collapse of plans to sell it to rival chip company Nvidia.
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Softbank Group has a new leadership line-up and speculation is mounting that further appointments – and departures – could be confirmed in the coming weeks.
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SoftBank is raising 30 billion yen (US$263 million) to fund its work in high-altitude mobile services from the stratosphere.
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Two months after Nokia announced radio access network deals with Japan’s KDDI and SoftBank, the Finnish vendor has said it is ready to supply open RAN equipment to their rival, NTT DoCoMo.
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The latest opponent to Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm is a powerful agency of the US government.
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SoftBank and KDDI have chosen Nokia as one of the vendors to deploy Japan’s shared radio access network (RAN).
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Eutelsat, which last week rejected a takeover offer from Patrick Drahi, has raised its stake in satellite company OneWeb to almost 23%.
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SoftBank has partnered with SES to deliver live sporting events in Japan.
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Google’s former Moonshot project, Loon, has transferred its patents to SoftBank for the Japanese company’s own balloon-based base station work.
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IoT network carrier 1NCE has raised $50 million in capital from a raft of investors including Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank.
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Season 3, episode 2 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Natalie Bannerman and this week's guest, Colm Shorten, senior director of data centres at JLL.
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SoftBank Group Corp (SoftBank) has formed an equity share swap agreement with Deutsche Telekom AG (DT).
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Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
