Investors will be looking out for Malaysia’s central bank policy meeting today, where it’s expected to keep its policy rate steady at 3%.

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son has made a strategic pivot toward the US market, appearing alongside President Donald Trump twice since his November election victory to unveil major investment plans.

Asian stock markets are trading mostly higher on Thursday, supported by positive cues from Wall Street overnight. Gains are led by China, where multiple government departments unveiled medium- and long-term investment plans to boost capital market confidence.

World shares were mixed on Thursday after China rolled out more moves to try to boost its lagging stock markets by raising confidence that prices will rise. Germany's DAX gained 0.2% to 21,300 and the CAC 40 in Paris edged 0.

CNBC's Alex Harring and Brian Evans contributed to this report. Softbank Group shares climb over 8% after U.S. AI infrastructure investment plans Shares of Softbank Group rose 8.6% after U.S ...

The partnership formed by Oracle, OpenAI and SoftBank is due to invest up to $500 billion. SoftBank's shares rose 3.7% on Thursday in Tokyo trading after jumping 11% the day before. Elsewhere in Asia, the S&P/ASX 200 in Australia fell 0.6% to 8,383.50, while the Kospi in Seoul lost 0.8% to 2,526.98.

Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group Corp. is considering investing up to $25 billion in OpenAI, the developer of the widely used artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

SoftBank is reportedly considering a historic $25 billion investment in OpenAI, which could surpass Microsoft's stake and position SoftBank as the ChatGPT maker's largest investor.

Beijing, China - Chinese firm DeepSeek's artificial intelligence chatbot has soared to the top of the Apple Store's download charts, stunning industry

SoftBank Group is currently in discussions to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI, which could position it as the AI startup's largest financial backer

SoftBank could invest $15 billion to $25 billion directly into Microsoft-backed OpenAI on top of its commitment of more than $15 billion to Stargate, the report said, citing multiple people with direct knowledge of the negotiations.

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.