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OpenAI Abandons Plan To Become For-profit Company

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Monday that the company behind ChatGPT will continue to be run as a nonprofit, abandoning a contested plan to convert into a for-profit organization.

International Business Times

300 billion and counting: most popular chip designer in the world turns 40, and it all started in a wooden barn

300 billion and counting: most popular chip designer in the world turns 40, and it all started in a wooden barn

40 years on: How Arm’s minimalist chip design became the blueprint for modern computing.

Cantor Fitzgerald partners with Tether, Bitfinex and SoftBank to launch Bitcoin acquisition company

Cantor Fitzgerald partners with Tether, Bitfinex and SoftBank to launch Bitcoin acquisition company

Twenty One Capital plans to launch publicly with 42,000 Bitcoins.

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Microsoft AI boss confirms development of "off-frontier" AI models, but they'll be 3 or 6 months behind OpenAI: "Our strategy is to really play a very tight second"

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says the company is building AI models that will be "three or six months behind" OpenAI, but they'll have advantages

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Has x86 lost the data center battle? Arm claims victory as it declares close to 50 percent of compute shipped to top hyperscalers in 2025 will be Arm-based

Arm has x86 on the ropes as it declares close to 50 percent of compute shipped to top hyperscalers.

Despite Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar OpenAI investment, these viral ChatGPT 4o Ghibli memes are another example of just how far behind Copilot is

Despite Microsoft's early multi-billion-dollar investment in OpenAI, it doesn't seem to have led to access to the latest models on any meaningful cadence.

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SoftBank dethroned Microsoft as OpenAI's largest investor, pushing the ChatGPT maker's market cap to $300 billion — but reportedly buried itself in debt

OpenAI closed its latest round of funding where it managed to raise $40 billion from investors, pushing its market cap to $300 billion.

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OpenAI finalises deal for $40 billion in investments, raising company value up to $300 billion, but there's a catch to receive it all

OpenAI finalises deal for $40 billion in investments, raising company value up to $300 billion, but there's a catch to receive it all

OpenAI is being pushed to go for-profit.

Asia tries to prepare for Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ wave of new tariffs: ‘We’re working on this matter nonstop, even on weekends’

Asia tries to prepare for Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ wave of new tariffs: ‘We’re working on this matter nonstop, even on weekends’

Vietnam cut import duties on Monday while other governments like Japan and Australia have tried negotiating with Washington.

East Asia is challenging Silicon Valley – by being like Silicon Valley used to be

East Asia is challenging Silicon Valley – by being like Silicon Valley used to be

Silicon Valley has been a universal symbol of innovation for decades. Because of its reputation, governments around the world have tried to foster their own versions by investing heavily in tech hubs.

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OpenAI raises $40bn in deal with SoftBank that values it at $300bn

OpenAI raises $40bn in deal with SoftBank that values it at $300bn

Japanese investor to put $10bn at first into OpenAI and $30bn more by end of 2025 if certain conditions are met

The Guardian - UK

The nine lives of Masayoshi Son

The nine lives of Masayoshi Son

Leading OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion funding round shows the tech investor's knack for seizing big opportunities.

First Thing: Markets brace for trade war as Trump prepares reciprocal tariffs

First Thing: Markets brace for trade war as Trump prepares reciprocal tariffs

President promises to be ‘very kind’, but critics warn his strategy risks triggering chain reaction and global trade war. Plus, Nasa astronauts reject claims of neglect

The Guardian - UK

OpenAI secures $300bn valuation in funding round led by SoftBank

OpenAI secures $300bn valuation in funding round led by SoftBank

The firm has raised $40 billion, one of the largest ever funding rounds secured by a private start-up.

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Evening Standard

OpenAI valued at 300 billion dollars after record-breaking funding round

The investment makes the AI firm one of the best-funded private start-ups in the world.

Analyst claims Softbank bought Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion to help OpenAI's chip ambitions

Did SoftBank spend $6.5 billion on Ampere to power OpenAI’s massive Stargate project?

SoftBank’s Chipmaker Deal: A Bottoming for Semiconductor Stocks?

Softbank just acquired a chipmaker company in March 2025, implying that valuations in the industry may look attractive enough today.

Softbank set to buy Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion and could integrate it with Arm and Graphcore

Arm's Japanese owner is buying Ampere, Arm's only independent server chip vendor, for $6.5 billion.

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JD Vance has a message for Silicon Valley: The Trump administration is ‘working with you’

The vice president is pledging support to the tech industry and saying this administration is aligned with its interests.

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SoftBank to acquire Arm CPUs for datacenter firm Ampere in $6.5 billion cash deal

SoftBank buys Ampere for $6.5 billion in cash, may use them in Stargate datacenters.

Windows Central

Microsoft's OpenAI "tech bromance" dodges UK merger probe — as it builds in-house models and tests DeepSeek in Copilot to break away from the ChatGPT maker

After investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says it's not a merger, escaping further regulatory scrutiny.

Trump’s Stargate Project Just Created 64,000 Reasons to Buy Nvidia Stock

Down 25% from all-time highs, Nvidia is a tech stock that trades at a sizeable discount to consensus price target estimates in March 2025.

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Would you pay $20,000/month for OpenAI’s specialized AI agents with "PhD-level" intelligence? "I will wait for DeepSeek to distill it and give it to me for free"

OpenAI is in discussions to raise the cost of its advanced AI models, charging up to $20,000/month for an AI agent that can support “PhD-level research.”

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SoftBank could steal Microsoft's title as the exclusive cloud provider and largest investor to OpenAI as $500B "Stargate" projects a $20B loss by 2027

A report suggests a rift between Microsoft and OpenAI, further indicating that the latter may be drifting away from Microsoft and leaning on SoftBank.

The only way is stack! Arm wants to build its own CPU server for hyperscalers, reports say, and AMD won't be happy

A report says Arm is trying to recruit talent from some of its largest customers to help develop its own chips.

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