SoftBank Group Corp

Nvidia’s highly anticipated Blackwell line will power the supercomputer to be build by SoftBank. Jensen Huang of Nvidia and Masayoshi Son of SoftBank were speaking at the AI Summit in Tokyo.

SoftBank held onto a stake of about 90% in Arm as it took the company public last year.

Beijing’s moves against Didi have been particularly harsh

Alibaba is answering Beijing’s call to invest in cutting-edge technologies and manufacturing capacities.

The company is targeting an IPO in the US within the next two years.

“This is looking more and more like the perfect storm for SoftBank...The question is whether there is more to come.”

In China, WeWork contends with several well-connected and aggressive rivals.

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SINGAPORE (Nov 11): Masayoshi Son wants investors to believe that a record loss from investments in money-losing start-ups WeWork and Uber Technologies is but a bump in the road. Some are not buying it.