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🤖 AI
🔴 OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record

🔸 OpenAI hits $300B valuation; only behind SpaceX & ByteDance.
🔸 SoftBank leads $30B; Microsoft & others also joined.
🔸 $18B to fund Stargate venture with Oracle & SoftBank.
🔸 Funding depends on for-profit restructure by Dec 31, 2025—or SoftBank may cut back.

#SB Technology (hereinafter referred to as "the Company") announces that #NobuhiroTsuji, a security researcher at the Company, will participate as an expert in the Japan Cybersecurity Initiative by Google Cybersecurity Research Center (hereinafter referred to as "the Initiative"), an effort to raise cybersecurity awareness in Japanese society, which is led by the Google Cybersecurity Research Center.
#CyberDefense #Japan #SoftBank #CyberSecurity
softbanktech.co.jp/en/news/top

OpenAI is close to finalizing a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank Group — with investors including Magnetar Capital, Coatue Management, Founders Fund and Altimeter Capital Management in talks to participate. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025 #business #companies #openai #softbank #investments #ai #chatgpt

The Japan Times · OpenAI close to finalizing $40 billion SoftBank-led fundingBy Kate Clark

Emboldened by #Trump , A.I. Companies Lobby for Fewer Rules

President Trump at the White House in January with, from left, Oracle’s chairman, Larry Ellison; SoftBank’s chief executive, Masayoshi Son; and OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman.
#ai #privacy #openai #softbank #oracle #aitraining #training

nytimes.com/2025/03/24/technol

President Trump at the White House in January with, from left, Oracle’s chairman, Larry Ellison; SoftBank’s chief executive, Masayoshi Son; and OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman.
The New York Times · Emboldened by Trump, A.I. Companies Lobby for Fewer RulesBy Cecilia Kang