SoftBank Corp. is involved in the development and commercialization of a HAPS. It is also forging ahead with plans to provide a foreign-affiliated satellite-based telecom service in Japan.

These high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) will link more remote areas previously unreachable online. Telecom group Softbank demonstrated its capabilities by facilitating a 5G call between Japan ...

SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO ... including High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)-based stratospheric telecommunications. While constructing AI data centers and developing homegrown LLMs specialized ...

Elsewhere, SoftBank says it has successfully flown its HAPS uncrewed aircraft in the earth's stratosphere. The October flight was an experiment in providing communications coverage from the ...

SoftBank Group Corp. aims to increase its stake in OpenAI by acquiring up to $1.5 billion in shares from the startup’s employees, according to people familiar with the matter. The Japanese ...

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son says “artificial super intelligence” will achieved within a decade. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg News) SoftBank plans to plow as much as $1.5 billion more into OpenAI by ...