MGX is an arm of the United Arab Emirates' sovereign wealth operation: https://www.mgx.ae/en

I feel like that, along with SoftBank's investment, tell me everything about how serious this project is.

Don't worry, Oracle is also involved.

A sheikh, a famously overzealous Japanese firm and Larry Elisson walk into a bar.

Ordinarily a joke would follow, but now America is volunteering to be the punchline.

They buy the bar and argue over selling 40 virgins, sake, or whiskey.

They argue for about 4 years, nothing changes, and everyone forgets about it.

Skynet will be written in Java. I'm sorry, the verbose language wins

Damn, we really won't ever be able to understand it.

at least that explains why it wants to do us in.

What do you mean?