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💸 SoftBank completes $40B OpenAI investment
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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
✨ Satya Nadella: AI to shift from ‘spectacle’ to ‘substance’
🤖 ChatGPT Android app adds real Thinking mode
💰 OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup
💾 Samsung wins approval for China chip tools
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SoftBank has reportedly completed its $40B investment in OpenAI, according to CNBC — wiring the final $22B+ last week after months of asset sales and fundraising to pull together the largest single bet on the AI race. To fund the deal, Masayoshi Son sold SoftBank’s entire $5.8B Nvidia stake, $4.8B of T-Mobile shares, and also slowed his Vision Fund dealmaking.
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Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella just shared his 2026 outlook, arguing that AI is entering a phase where we can see between “spectacle” and “substance,” and success will be measured less by model breakthroughs and more by real outcomes. Nadella said AI is shifting from discovery to diffusion, with capabilities outpacing our ability to turn them into real impact, creating a “model overhang.”
OpenAI has rolled out a real Thinking mode for its ChatGPT Android app, giving users control over how long the AI processes a request before responding. The update replaces the earlier toggle that only simulated extended reasoning and now matches the desktop’s “Extended Thinking” feature.
OpenAI's average stock-based compensation for its roughly 4,000 employees is about $1.5 million per employee. The company's equity awards, aimed at helping it keep its lead in the AI race, are inflating its heavy operating losses and diluting existing shareholders. OpenAI recently announced the discontinuation of a policy that required employees to work at the company for at least six months before their equity vests.
The U.S. granted Samsung and SK Hynix annual licenses to import chipmaking equipment to their China facilities for 2026. Samsung and SK Hynix rely on Chinese operations for traditional memory chips, whose prices have surged on AI data center demand and tight supply.
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