Sep 16, 2026, 10:45 UTC
Nokia announced growing global momentum for AI-RAN, with operators including A1 Group, Chunghwa Telecom, du, e&, Mobily, stc, TPG Telecom and Zain Saudi advancing AI-RAN from evaluation to lab and live field trials on NVIDIA platforms.
Sep 16, 2026, 09:30 UTC
Quantum X Labs Inc. appointed former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen as president of its scientific advisory board.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 06:15 UTC
SoftBank shares fell around 10%, Kioxia about 7% and SK Hynix around 6% in Asian trading on Monday, while Nvidia also declined in premarket trading.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 09:00 UTC
Rakuten Group's mobile unit Rakuten Mobile has invested only 40-70% of what rivals NTT Docomo, KDDI and SoftBank spent on mobile network capex over the seven years since its 2019 entry, and its roaming contract with KDDI expires at the end of September.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 01:54 UTC
SoftBank's credit default swaps widened by 3 basis points to their highest level in six months.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 00:32 UTC
SoftBank Group shares slid 13%, the most in nearly three months, after Anthropic and OpenAI leaders urged caution on AI development for safety reasons.
Sep 11, 2026, 09:45 UTC
The United Arab Emirates is revising its 5-gigawatt UAE-US AI Campus data center project, shifting from a single 10-square-mile Abu Dhabi campus to a network of data centers across the UAE with added air defenses and underground facilities after Iranian attacks.
Sep 10, 2026, 05:51 UTC
Grab is in talks to acquire SoftBank-backed fintech company Atome.
Sep 8, 2026, 18:30 UTC
SB Energy is developing a data center campus, the Cosmos Technology Campus, at the former 3M site in Austin, Texas, with construction underway and operations expected to begin in stages between 2026 and 2027.
Source:Sep 8, 2026, 02:17 UTC
Arm Holdings, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group, announced on September 8 the launch of an industry consortium for physical AI, with over 80 companies including Hugging Face, Amazon Web Services, and Chinese firms participating to build a common foundation.
Sep 4, 2026, 04:58 UTC
NEC unveiled a facial recognition payment service at SoftBank's Takeshiba headquarters employee cafeteria in Tokyo's Minato ward, in collaboration with SB Payment Service and SB C&S.
Source:Sep 4, 2026, 03:28 UTC
Japan's Nikkei rose more than 1%, with SoftBank Group surging over 10%.
Sep 3, 2026, 04:00 UTC
A 1.7% stake in Meesho Ltd worth Rs 1,650.4 crore changed hands via a block deal on September 3, 2026, with SoftBank's investment vehicle SVF II Meerkat DE likely the seller.
Sep 2, 2026, 20:00 UTC
NTT Docomo, KDDI, and SoftBank reported consolidated results for April-June 2026, all showing revenue and profit increases, with KDDI's operating profit up 21.1% year-on-year.
Source:Sep 2, 2026, 04:08 UTC
LINE Yahoo and SoftBank launched an online smartphone trade-in service called Yahoo! Smartphone Buyback on September 2, 2026.
Source:Aug 30, 2026, 15:30 UTC
U.S. Representative Ro Khanna criticized President Donald Trump for allowing SoftBank's SB Energy to build a large AI data center on federal land, alleging a pay-to-play scheme after SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump's presidential library fund.
Source:Aug 30, 2026, 15:30 UTC
Democratic lawmakers Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, and Melanie Stansbury issued a statement expressing concerns about potential corruption regarding SoftBank's donation and the subsequent federal data center deal.
Source:Aug 28, 2026, 07:06 UTC
SoftBank Group demanded that Moody's immediately stop publishing unsolicited credit ratings that do not reflect the group's true condition.
Source:Aug 28, 2026, 06:33 UTC
SoftBank Group announced that the completion of its acquisition of shares in subsidiary Line Man Corporation Pte. has been rescheduled to no later than the end of October 2026.
Source:Aug 28, 2026, 05:00 UTC
SoftBank-backed surgical robotics company Noah Medical has begun preparations for a Hong Kong initial public offering, aiming to raise more than US$100 million and planning to file its listing application as early as next year.
Source:Jun 4, 2026, 15:54 UTC
SoftBank Group shares fell 11.28% in Tokyo on June 4, leading losses across Asian markets as US tech weakness spread.