SoftBank is marching ahead on its ambitions to build out a major AI operation in its home market of Japan, on its own steam and in strategic partnership

SoftBank plans to transform a former Sharp LCD panel plant in Japan into a data centre for operating artificial intelligence agents developed in collaboration with U.S.-based ChatGPT creator, OpenAI,

For its joint venture with OpenAI, SoftBank has announced plans to spend $676 million on a factory in Japan, which it plans to turn into

OpenAI and Elon Musk agreed to accelerate their court battle into December, hastening the trial for what’s now one of the tech world’s most highly publicized controversies. The trial will be about OpenAI’s contentious change to a for-profit approach, which Musk asserts is a betrayal of the company’s original ethos.

Elon Musk and OpenAI have agreed to fast-track a trial over the company's evolution into a profit-driven firm. The move comes amid an ongoing legal battle between Musk, the founder of xAI and Tesla, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. The proposal for this fast-tracked trial was jointly submitted by both parties in December last year.