SoftBank Group completed an acquisition of AI infrastructure investor DigitalBridge 10 months after announcing the tie-up.

The Japanese company stated it paid $3.1 billion in an all-stock deal for DigitalBridge, which will continue to operate as a separate platform led by current CEO Marc Ganzi.

DigitalBridge’s figures will be included in SoftBank’s consolidated financial statements, starting from 30 September.

SoftBank chair and CEO Masayoshi Son previously said the acquisition would bolster the group AI abilities, pointing to a deeper presence in next-generation data centres and ambitions around superintelligence.

Ganzi predicted a boost to DigitalBridge’s long-term investment capabilities.

DigitalBridge specialises in data centres mobile towers, fibre networks and edge infrastructure, and managed $10 billion in assets as of September 2025.

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A non-profit legal group reportedly sued OpenAI over a cyberattack by its AI agents against Hugging Face, in what CNBC described as a test case for whether an AI company can be held legally responsible for damage caused by autonomous systems.

The news outlet reported Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the suit on 29 September in a Superior Court. It relates to OpenAI agents escaping their testing environment onto the open internet and hacking Hugging Face’s systems in the process, one of the earliest known actions of its kind, CNBC wrote.

CNBC reported LASST believes OpenAI breached Californian computer laws and should be held accountable for the actions of its agents. It wants the court to bar the company’s systems from accessing computers without authorisation.

An OpenAI representative told CNBC the suit lacks merit.

OpenAI scrapped plans to release a new model this week over safety concerns, days after stating it is thoroughly reviewing future iterations as a result of the Hugging Face incident, CNBC reported.

Various reports indicate the company’s agents also hacked an Australian government website.

CNBC noted Hugging Face is not involved in the LASST lawsuit, but highlighted a previous call from the start-up’s CEO Clement Delangue for OpenAI to donate $100 million towards helping it beef up its defences.

OpenAI reportedly tried to invest the same sum in Hugging Face. Nvidia ultimately secured a deal to buy it for $13 billion.

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly opened a wide-ranging probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies over the potential danger posed by their models.

The New York Post reported FTC chair Andrew Ferguson launched the investigation before OpenAI agents attacked AI startup Hugging Face in a test.

Its probe will seek documents on alleged unfair or deceptive practices violating the FTC Act from AI players, or “super intelligence” companies as President Donald Trump calls them.

The agency is now drafting a civil investigative demand to force testimony from leading companies in the space.

Its move adds to scrutiny of OpenAI and Anthropic’s safety practices after researchers warned their models could cause catastrophic harm.

News outlets reported President Donald Trump met executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta Platforms and Nvidia earlier this week, after which the companies signed a voluntary commitment on AI development.

The framework arrived during a dispute over whether safety concerns should slow development.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently proposed permanent third-party evaluators inside AI companies as part of a wider plan to curb advances in frontier capabilities. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backed the proposal.

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AI start-up DeepSeek partnered with Huawei to launch an open-source programming software toolkit optimised for the vendor’s Ascend chips, as the Chinese companies up efforts to expand the AI market beyond Nvidia’s technology.

DeepSeek stated on its WeChat account the toolkit is free to download and includes the TileLang platform, which can be compared to Nvidia’s Cuda that is widely considered as a global standard for developing AI models.

The Chinese AI company explained TileLang is “simpler to programme, significantly improving development efficiency and simplifying code logic”.

It added the open-source programming includes compute and communication libraries.

DeepSeek stated it worked with Huawei on its Ascend 950 chips and praised the vendor for providing “unwavering and strong support” during R&D.

“To do a good job, one must first have the right tools,” DeepSeek stated, arguing the first step to building an independent, GPU software ecosystem is to establish an easy-to-programme high-level language which “can simultaneously reach the hardware performance limits”.

Bloomberg reported earlier this month DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei AI accelerators at a new data centre in Inner Mongolia.

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Anthropic is reportedly seeking a valuation of more than $2 trillion in a public listing while also warning in a leaked prospectus AI could pose a catastrophic or existential risk to humanity.

Reuters reported the AI startup recorded a $42 billion net loss in 2025 after reviewing its IPO prospectus. About $34 billion reflected an accounting charge tied to financing which could convert into shares, while compute and infrastructure spending tripled to $7.3 billion.

The filing shows Anthropic faces $518 billion in cloud, compute and infrastructure commitments in the coming years.

Revenue jumped 12-fold to nearly $4.6 billion, though its operating loss widened to $8 billion from $3 billion in 2024.

The prospectus also flagged customer concentration with two customers generating nearly a quarter of 2025 revenue while several were not locked into long-term contracts.

The filing also outlined safety risks exposed by Anthropic’s research, including autonomous systems disrupting code and manipulating information in controlled tests.

Reuters previously reported the IPO could be delayed until after the November US midterm elections. Rival OpenAI is reportedly targeting a listing next year.

Trump weighs in
Speaking at the White House surrounded by tech titans and government officials, NBC News reported President Donald Trump pushed back on heavier AI guardrails.

Flanked by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Trump stated there was agreement among the executives there should be “tremendous self-regulation” by the companies”.

“There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that,” Trump said.

The news site reported in addition to Huang and Musk, Trump’s AI lunch and summit also included including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, AMD CEO Lisa Su and OpenAI president Greg Brockman.

While US states, including New York, and communities have put data centre laws or moratoriums in place, Trump said the group of executives “loves local communities, they love our country, and they’re going to work with local communities for the data centres in particular”.

He also stated AI-related data centres “are going to be very popular” across the US due to the efforts of the technology companies in attendance.

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The longtime hardware chief takes the top job as Cook becomes executive chairman after 15 years leading Apple.

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A mysterious “flying object”, a strange “cloud” that appeared in the sky in Greece on Tuesday evening, shortly before the sunset, caused concern and curiosity among residents of southeastern Attica, Crete and some other islands yesterday, August 11, 2026. Images and eyewitnesses claimed that there was no other cloud in the sky at that time. […]

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