Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981. It has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies.

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank, the Japanese media technology conglomerate, is often cast as a dreamer, financial engineer, and speculator. But his career — which has spanned the launch of the personal computer and internet,

From left: Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank; Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle; and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI listen to President Trump speak at the White House on Jan. 21 ...

Appearing alongside Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, Altman discussed a joint venture to build advanced data centers in Texas that will power advanced AI ...

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 ...

Shares of SoftBank Group Corp. jumped as much as 8.1% after US President Donald Trump announced a multi-billion dollar push by the Japanese company, OpenAI and Oracle Corp. to build AI infrastructure in the US.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk voiced doubts about President Trump’s newly announced infrastructure plan for artificial intelligence, claiming the technology companies behind the effort do not

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son will be the chairman for the project ... with an initial $100 billion investment. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who works with the Trump White House as chairman ...

including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, emerged as a potential buyer days before the application was set to shut down. Trump on Monday ...

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is seeking to raise $40 billion in a fresh round of funding that would value the startup at a staggering $340 billion, the Wall Street Journal Reported on Thursday.

The reports came after Chinese start-up DeepSeek sparked panic this week with a powerful new chatbot developed at a fraction of the cost of its US competitors, dealing a blow to markets. The Softbank investment was first reported by the Financial Times.

Musk said Tesla robotaxis with unsupervised Full Self Driving technology will begin picking up fares in Austin, Texas, beginning this June. The Tesla CEO gushed over autonomous vehicle safety even as the NHTSA continues numerous probes into myriad versions of Tesla’s automated driving technologies.