In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi Son was stewing. After declaring for years the imminent arrival of the artificial-intelligence revolution,

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is seeking to raise $40 billion in a fresh round of funding that would value the startup at a staggering $340 billion, the Wall Street Journal Reported on Thursday.

On Wednesday, OpenAI shared with ZDNET that there are 10 Sora generations per second worldwide. That translates to 600 videos being generated every minute. The top five cities for Sora adoption are Seoul, New York City, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Singapore, listed from highest to lowest.

OpenAI is taking its ChatGPT chatbot to the next level, adding a feature to automate tasks like planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations and ordering groceries. The tool, announced on Thursday, is called Operator. OpenAI ...

DeepSeek topped the Apple App Store chart and sparked fears the Chinese company was quickly catching up with OpenAI's ChatGPT while costing far less.

Ripples were felt from Tokyo to Amsterdam to Silicon Valley and even Singapore. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The reports came after Chinese start-up DeepSeek sparked panic this week with a powerful new chatbot developed at a fraction of the cost of its US competitors, dealing a blow to markets. The Softbank investment was first reported by the Financial Times.

On Wednesday, OpenAI shared with ZDNET that there are 10 Sora generations per second worldwide. That translates to 600 videos being generated every minute. The top five cities for Sora adoption are Seoul, New York City, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Singapore, listed from highest to lowest.

SoftBank Group shares jumped after the company and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced plans to invest up to half a trillion dollars in artificial-intelligence infrastructure in the U.S. Shares rose 8.8% to 10,060 yen, or equivalent to $64.69, on Wednesday in Tokyo, after climbing as much as 9.2% earlier, to their highest level since July.

President Trump is announcing billions in private sector investment by OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle to build AI infrastructure in the U.S.

Shares in Nvidia, whose semiconductors power the AI industry, fell nearly 17 percent on Wall Street, erasing nearly $600 billion of its market value.