Yoko Kubota is The Wall Street Journal's deputy bureau chief in Beijing, responsible for business news coverage in China ...

Flashback to 2019, SoftBank made headlines when its founder, Masayoshi Son, took a gigantic loss on a personal bitcoin investment. Son had taken exposure to cryptocurrency in late 2017, when the ICO ...

China retaliated last week against levies at the same level announced by US President Donald Trump on what he called "Liberation Day".

OpenAI has raised up to $40 billion in new funding from investors led by SoftBank Group, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion. OpenAI will not receive the whole amount pledged by SoftBank if ...

Global tech investor SoftBank Group is turning to a familiar tool to fund its $40 billion investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced late Monday: debt. The Tokyo-based company, led by ...

OpenAI is close to securing $40 billion in a new funding round led by SoftBank Group, that's according to reporting from Bloomberg. In complete, the funding round would be the largest in history ...

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, said it has finalized a funding round that will bring in $40 billion from SoftBank Group Corp. and other investors at a $300 billion ...

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group plans to raise roughly 600 billion yen ($4 billion) by selling five-year bonds to retail investors in the Japanese technology investor's largest-ever retail bond issuance.

Global tech investor SoftBank Group 9984-2.33%decrease; red down pointing triangle is turning to a familiar tool to fund its $40 billion investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced late Monday ...