Japan's Nikkei Stock Average rose 0.8% to close at 39958.87 amid risk-on sentiment. "Equities worldwide continued to ride on the wave of U.S.' AI investment announcement, as well as blowout earnings from streaming giant Netflix,

Wall Street closed higher, with the S&P 500 index scoring an all-time high. Blowout Netflix results and plans for $500b AI investment fuel gains.

The streaming service's shares jumped 14% in premarket trading after a blockbuster earnings report late Tuesday. Netflix b

The Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer.

Some of the funding would be used to help cover OpenAI’s $18 billion commitment to the recently announced Stargate project.

A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

SoftBank (SFTBY) is in discussions to invest $15B-$25B in Open AI, Deepa Seetharaman of The Wall Street Journal reports. Some of the equity

SoftBank is in talks to inject up to $25 billion directly into OpenAI, positioning the Japanese tech conglomerate to become the ChatGPT maker's largest financial backer, according to initial reporting from the Financial Times on Wednesday evening.

Japan's SoftBank is in talks to invest $15-25 billion in OpenAI in a deal that would make it the ChatGPT-maker's biggest financial backer, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

Tech news website The Information reported previously that SoftBank was planning to invest a total $40 billion (roughly Rs. 3,46,320 crore) into Stargate and OpenAI and had begun talks to borrow up to $18.5 billion (roughly Rs. 1,60,170 crore) in financing, backed by its publicly-listed assets.

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $25 billion from SoftBank amid DeepSeek shock.