SoftBank Targets 5 GW of AI Infrastructure in France
SoftBank Group outlined plans to build and operate 5 GW of AI data center capacity in France, marking one of Europe’s largest announced AI…
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SoftBank Group outlined plans to build and operate 5 GW of AI data center capacity in France, marking one of Europe’s largest announced AI…
The U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Energy announced a public-private partnership with SoftBank Group and AEP Ohio to redevelop federal…
Under the agreement, existing mobility functions such as the Mobility Management Entity (MME) and Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) will be migrated nationwide…
SoftBank Corp. and Ericsson demonstrated a proof-of-concept at MWC 2026 showing how AI-RAN architecture can support low-latency, highly reliable communications for Physical AI applications…
Intel Corp. announced a collaboration with SAIMEMORY, a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp., to develop a new stacked memory technology known as Z-Angle Memory (ZAM).…
SoftBank Group Corp. agreed to acquire DigitalBridge Group, Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $4.0 billion, marking a major step in SoftBank’s effort to secure…
SoftBank Group and OpenAI have established a joint venture called SB OAI Japan GK to commercialize “Crystal intelligence,” a new enterprise AI solution aimed at transforming…
Nokia has signed a new agreement with SoftBank Corp. to modernize and expand its 4G and 5G mobile networks across Western Japan. The deal…
SoftBank Corp. has partnered with Cisco Systems to begin deploying an “All Optical Network” across metro networks in Japan. The project eliminates the need…
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced five new U.S. sites under the Stargate AI data center program, accelerating their push to deploy 10 gigawatts of…
SoftBank, Meta, and regional partners are building a new 8,000 km submarine cable system called Candle to link Japan and Singapore with landings in…
SoftBank Corp. has launched Japan’s first outdoor trial of the 7GHz band for 6G, partnering with Nokia to evaluate centimeter-wave spectrum performance using Massive…
G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group, and Cisco have unveiled plans to build Stargate UAE—a massive 1-gigawatt AI compute cluster—in Abu Dhabi. The initiative…
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