While some of the featured leaders were ones you’d expect—cabinet nominees, congressional leaders, megadonor Elon Musk—at least one was a surprise: Masayoshi Son, the Japanese billionaire ...

Leading OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion funding round shows the tech investor's knack for seizing big opportunities.

In 1981, at the age of 24, Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank as a software distribution company. What began as a three-person operation quickly gained momentum. Within two years, SoftBank had grown ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued a public hiring call on social media, inviting engineers and computing specialists to join the company as it ramps up development efforts following a major funding ...

OpenAI has finalised a $40 billion funding round from Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group Corp and ... way towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends a talk session ...

SoftBank which is leading the deal will initially be investing $7.5 billion in the company along with $2.5 billion from an investor syndicate.

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a funding round led by investment giant SoftBank as it looks to stave off competition like Elon Musk’s xAI and China-based DeepSeek.

Altman is particularly interested in people who know how to squeeze every bit of performance out of a system. If you have experience in compiler design or programming language design, he says, OpenAI ...

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said artificial general intelligence (AGI) will demand unprecedented computational power, and Ampere's expertise in high-performance computing aligns with this vision.

A second tranche of $30 billion is expected to be invested in OpenAI by the end of 2025, comprising $22.5 billion from ...

The recent stock market downturn has affected share prices of Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Tesla, Uber, Goldman Sachs, and ...