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AI debutant’s flameout stokes fears boom is endingElice, a data center and AI developer, faced a significant decline in its stock price during its debut. This situation exemplifies a broade...
Global Market: South Korea's Elice shares plunge 28% in market debut as data centre stocks shunnedElice, which raised 201.1 billion won ($150 million) in its IPO, provides AI cloud services as well as AI-based education and business soft...
OpenAI seeks to accelerate fundraising ahead of Anthropic IPO, sources sayOpenAI is working swiftly to secure funds before Anthropic's anticipated public market debut in mid-November. The fundraising effort could ...
Global Market: Japan's Nikkei rebounds after six-session losing streak; weekly loss nears 5%Japan’s Nikkei rebounded 1.75% after six consecutive sessions of losses, supported by bargain hunting and gains in technology and banking s...
- Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom
A market selloff is forcing companies driving the global AI boom to delay fundraising plans or pay more for capital as investors demand pro...
Global Market: Japan’s Nikkei plunges nearly 5% as AI stocks tumble on CoreWeave debt concernsJapan’s Nikkei 225 plunged, while the broader Topix fell 2.5%, as AI-linked stocks led a broad selloff. Sentiment was hit by concerns over ...
SoftBank junk bond sale raises stakes for CEO Son's all-in AI betSoftBank's promise to pay its highest-ever yields in a record $11 billion junk-bond offering highlights the pressure on CEO Masayoshi Son t...
Hitachi Energy, E2E Networks, Anant Raj, other AI-linked stocks slide up to 5% as global AI rout hits Indian marketsIndian AI- and energy-linked stocks decline as a global technology sell-off deepens, with South Korea’s KOSPI plunging amid intensifying co...
Global Market: AI trade faces biggest test yet as chip stocks tumble across AsiaAsian AI stocks tumbled as rising bond yields, higher financing costs, and concerns over excessive infrastructure spending weakened investo...
SoftBank seeks $100 billion from Gulf states for AISoftBank Group Corp. is in discussions to raise up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for future AI investments. Founder Masayoshi Son has...
Global Market: Japan’s Nikkei falls as AI concerns, global bond market stress weighJapan’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.06% as AI-sector concerns, elevated global borrowing costs and rising oil prices weighed on investor sentiment. W...
Tencent mulls $5 billion bond sale to push AI ambitions: Bloomberg NewsTencent is exploring the possibility of raising as much as $5 billion through an offshore bond sale this month. This potential move comes o...
Menlo Ventures on AI slowdown; Ola Electric CEO pledges stakeHappy Monday! Menlo Ventures, an early Anthropic backer, says the real AI constraint is compute, not a slowdown in frontier models. This an...
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has rare cautionary note on AI safetyIn a recent statement, Masayoshi Son underscored the critical importance of international unity in managing the safety risks associated wit...
OpenAI sacks 3 researchers over leaking 'sensitive' info, ChatGPT maker alerts over 100 organizations about rogue AI agent activityChatGPT maker has been conducting a broad review of the activities of its AI models after the accidental hacking of Hugging Face. OpenAI is...
SoftBank completes final phase of $30 billion investment in OpenAISoftBank Group said on Thursday it has completed its $30 billion investment in OpenAI as part of its commitment to the ChatGPT maker's last...
SoftBank's growing bets on AI and semiconductor assetsFounder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is aiming to establish SoftBank as the world's leading AI platform with investments across the se...
SoftBank taps bond market for $11.1 billion to fund AI betsSoftBank has raised $11.1 billion through dollar- and euro-denominated bonds to fund its artificial intelligence investments, including the...
SoftBank issues $11.1 billion in bonds in OpenAI financing pushTechnology investor SoftBank Group has issued a total of $11.1 billion in dollar- and euro-denominated bonds, a filing showed on Thursday, ...
Global Market: SoftBank launches $10 billion bonds to fund OpenAI investmentSoftBank Group is raising $11 billion through dollar- and euro-denominated bonds to fund its $10 billion investment in OpenAI, replacing br...