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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Yuri Kageyama

Japan's SoftBank racks up huge profit gains with lift from lucrative AI investments

Japan Earns SoftBank - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Japanese technology investor Softbank Group Corp. reported Wednesday that profits for the fiscal year through March zoomed by nearly five-fold from the previous year as its AI investments paid off.

The Tokyo-based company recorded an annual profit of 5 trillion yen ($32 billion), far greater than the 1.15 trillion yen profit racked up the previous year.

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