News Summary

• Japanese conglomerate SoftBank reportedly plans to create a new company called Roze AI.
• Roze would seek to make data center construction in the U.S. more “efficient” It would do that by deploying autonomous robots to help build server farms.
• Some executives want it to happen by the second half of 2026, the Wall Street Journal reports.
• The desired valuation might be $100 billion, FT reports.
• SoftBank has been known to back some dark horse startups (it notably sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into Zume, an AI-driven pizza delivery startup that went belly up in 2023)