
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Cried Selling $5.8B Nvidia Stake for AI Bets
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son emotionally admits selling entire $5.8B Nvidia stake to fund OpenAI investments. "I was crying," he said at a Tokyo forum on Monday.

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son emotionally admits selling entire $5.8B Nvidia stake to fund OpenAI investments. "I was crying," he said at a Tokyo forum on Monday.

Four individuals, including a CTO-designate, have been arrested in the U.S. for allegedly exporting restricted Nvidia A100, H100 and H200 GPUs to China using falsified paperwork and shell companies, violating tightened American export controls.

Nuevo León has clarified the source of the US $1B data center investment after Nvidia denied involvement. The funding will come from Mexican AI firm Cipre Holdings, which plans to build the state’s first green AI data center.

Anthropic is set to raise $15 billion from Microsoft and Nvidia while committing $30 billion to Microsoft Azure in a landmark AI-cloud deal that strengthens its model development pipeline and reshapes the global AI infrastructure race.

As Nvidia approaches its Nov. 19 earnings report, investors weigh a record $5 trillion market valuation against high expectations for Blackwell GPU sales and data‑center demand. A beat could extend the AI rally; a miss may trigger sharp selling and wider market volatility.

Nvidia has denied plans to invest $1 billion in a proposed AI data centre in Nuevo León, contradicting the Mexican governor’s earlier announcement.

Global chipmaker Nvidia will partner with local operators to build a $1 billion green data centre in Nuevo León, Mexico — a strategic move to expand AI infrastructure in Latin America.

SoftBank sold a $5.8 billion Nvidia stake to bankroll a $30 billion push into OpenAI - the shock moved shares down as much as 10% and reignited the AI valuation debate.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has secured $6 billion from prominent investors including BlackRock, Nvidia Corp., and AMD.

Nvidia, the renowned American chipmaker and Japanese Softbank Corp have piloted world's first artificial intelligence and 5G telecoms network.

Often regarded as the 'AI Godmother' Chinese-American computer scientist, Fei Fei Li last week raised $230 million for her AI startup World Labs.

AMD has acquired New Jersey-based ZT Systems, a leading provider of AI, cloud, and general-purpose computing, and infrastructure and design expertise.