SoftBank's Son back to form with big bets and quarterly loss
Japan's SoftBank Group booked a surprise $2.4 billion quarterly loss on Wednesday, hit by a decline in the value of ...
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Japan’s Pragmatic Model for AI Governance
Japan’s unique strategy – combining regulatory oversight, resource efficiency, and international partnership – offers a ...
What Drives Billionaire Masayoshi Son?
The man behind SoftBank has now teamed up with OpenAI to invest up to $500 billion in American AI infrastructure over the ...
Japan’s SoftBank swings to a loss ahead of big AI infrastructure bet on Stargate Project
The company posted a US$2.4 billion loss in the December quarter, as founder Masayoshi Son campaigns to raise US$500 billion ...
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says AGI will arrive ‘much earlier’ than he thought
SoftBank is also partnering with OpenAI on an AI system called ‘Cristal intelligence.’ ...
Billionaires Altman and Son bet big on each other
Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son lead talks over a record deal to make the Japanese investor the ...
Japan's SoftBank reports loss weeks after announcing AI investment with U.S. President Trump
Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp. reported a 369.2 billion yen ($2.4 billion) loss for the fiscal third ...
SoftBank joins with OpenAI in yearly $3B venture to expand AI in Japan
SoftBank inked a $3 billion deal with OpenAI in a joint venture to market OpenAI tech in Japan with its newly-minuted ...
AGI will come "much earlier," says SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, as he unveil $3B AI partnership with OpenAI
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son announced an accelerated timeline for the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and ...
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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and OpenAI’s Sam Altman bet on AI — and each other
When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in ... has agreed to match whatever figure the Japanese group puts into the infrastructure project. Partners including MGX, the Abu Dhabi ...
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The Japanese Tech Titan Who Came to Kiss Trump’s Ring
The scenes evoked the court of a medieval king. Among the visitors in mid-December was Masayoshi Son, the Japanese founder and CEO of media technology conglomerate SoftBank. Son is probably the ...