Microsoft Builds Its New Decision Model on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft had a choice when it set out to build a model that answers with a probability instead of a sentence. It could have started from one of its own…
SoftBank’s Son Wants $100 Billion From the Gulf for AI
Masayoshi Son has gone back to the place that funded his last big gamble. In recent weeks the SoftBank founder has been in contact with investors in the Gulf, including…
SoftBank Plans Record Junk-Bond Sale to Fund OpenAI Investment
Bankers working for SoftBank Group spent the weekend putting the finishing touches on one of the largest high-yield bond offerings a single company has ever brought to market. By Monday,…
SoftBank Raises ¥1 Trillion From Japanese Households at Double the Going Rate
The savers of Japan have long been the world’s most cautious investors, keeping trillions of yen in bank deposits that pay almost nothing. Masayoshi Son wants to put that money…
SoftBank Plans Record $6.3 Billion Retail Bond Sale to Fund AI Bets
TOKYO — SoftBank Group plans to issue about 1 trillion yen, or roughly $6.3 billion, in retail bonds in the Japanese market, a sale that would be the largest in…
Apple Walks a Tightrope Between Washington and Beijing
On the same day last week, two reports described Apple being pulled in opposite directions. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the U.S. commerce secretary has pressed Apple not…
SoftBank Borrows $10 Billion Against OpenAI Stake
TOKYO—The loan has no collateral in the usual sense; its security is a stake in a company that did not exist five years ago. SoftBank Group has borrowed $10 billion…
Apple’s AI Finally Clears China’s Regulators, With Help From Alibaba and Baidu
The wait lasted two years. Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s suite of generative AI features, has been approved by China’s Cyberspace Administration for launch in the country, according to people…
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Anthropic Under Fire After Researchers Find Hidden Tracker in Claude Code A routine security audit has turned into a reputational problem for Anthropic. Researchers said they found a hidden tracking…
Anthropic’s Trillion-Dollar IPO Ambitions Face a Defensibility Test
Anthropic is preparing for what could be one of the largest technology IPOs on record, but its race with Alibaba’s cloud unit is raising a question that bankers and investors…
