SoftBank just sold the world's hottest AI stock — so it can buy more AI

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Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son has agreed to put $30 billion into Sam Altman's OpenAI.

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3 takeaways about the AI race from SoftBank's earnings

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SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son delivers a speech during the annual general shareholders' meeting in Tokyo on June 27, 2025.

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This startup is creating a tool to break Nvidia's chip lock-in. Read the pitch deck Spectral Compute used to raise $6 million.

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Michael Søndergaard, the CEO of Spectral Compute.

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Startups find Amazon's AI chips 'less competitive' than Nvidia GPUs, internal document shows

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AWS CEO Matt Garman

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Nvidia CEO Says China ‘Will Win’ the Global AI Race as the U.S. Falls Behind in Energy

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang turns up the heat on his warnings about the US-China tech race

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang name-dropped six startups playing in the AI agent space.

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Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom are slapping 'golden handcuffs' on workers to meet demand for the AI boom

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Want to upskill in AI? This is what a former Nvidia engineer recommends

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A former Nvidia engineer said that computer science remains relevant if students recongize what their classes are really about.

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Big Tech's 'golden handcuffs' have become 'silicon handcuffs'

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Nvidia backs $6 billion battery recycling giant in bid to power the AI boom

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Redwood Materials' campus in Nevada, with its new energy storage system on the left, a solar array in the center, and a Google data center on the far right.

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