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, 15:16 UTC
SoftBank Group Corp. will hold investor meetings in New York next week to gauge interest for a potential US dollar junk-bond sale, part of its borrowing spree to finance AI investments.
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 4, 2026, 00:41 UTC
SoftBank Group Corp. priced a ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion) retail bond with a coupon of 4.75%.
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:Aug 24, 2026, 02:43 UTC
SoftBank Group plans to issue 1 trillion yen in retail bonds, the largest such issuance in Japan, to fund its investment commitment in OpenAI.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 09:15 UTC
SoftBank disclosed in a 13F filing that it held 86,956,522 Intel shares valued at $12.14 billion as of June 30, making Intel its largest US holding.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Standard Bank is in talks to buy a stake in OPay Digital Services before the fintech firm's planned US IPO.
Aug 18, 2026, 21:59 UTC
AEP Ohio, together with Meta, QTS, Amazon, Softbank Energy, and Google, announced a pledge of over $18 million on August 18 to support AEP Ohio's Neighbor to Neighbor program, which provides grants to help Ohioans pay their electric bills.
Aug 18, 2026, 08:30 UTC
SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son appointed former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen as strategic advisor, a more senior role bringing him closer to top decision-making and to Son himself.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 04:41 UTC
SoftBank and SB Energy will invest more than $4 billion into local energy infrastructure and build at least 10 GW of new energy generation to power the data centre.
Source:Aug 17, 2026, 14:21 UTC
SB Energy and SoftBank Group will build at least 10 gigawatts of new power generation capacity and invest at least $4.2 billion in regional grid improvements through AEP Ohio.
Aug 17, 2026, 04:30 UTC
SB Telecom Vietnam, SHINEC, Litehouse, and VietABank signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop and provide integrated technology, finance, and implementation solutions for manufacturing enterprises at Nam Cau Kien Industrial Park, aiming to build a Smart Eco-Industrial Park.
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.