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

In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, ...

This is a massive head start, and cultural symmetry that seemed to make American AI predestined. Open AI is backed by a US$14 billion investment from Microsoft, and has access to the cloud ...

Even so, Mr Ellison remains the world’s fifth-richest man, and Oracle the third-biggest software firm. He has a thing or two ...