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,

SoftBank is in talks to lead a funding round for artificial intelligence robotics start-up Skild AI that would more than double its valuation to close to $4bn, as Masayoshi Son hunts for deals to match his vaunted ambitions for the sector.

Masayoshi Son, the CEO of the Japanese multinational investment company SoftBank, has pledged a hefty investment deal with Donald Trump for the U.S. On December 16, 2024, the two jointly announced ...

The initiative announced by President Donald Trump will aim to "secure American leadership in AI" while also creating jobs and economic benefit.

Open AI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son appeared alongside President Donald Trump to announce the Stargate plan.

Also in today’s newsletter, Trump pushes India to buy more US weapons, and SoftBank set to invest in robotics start-up

Trump called the joint venture - known as Stargate - "a new American company that will invest $500 billion at least in AI infrastructure in the United States," promising that it will create more than 100,000 jobs. He made clear that the initiative is aimed at thwarting China and its AI efforts.

The arrival of China’s market-crashing chatbot has started a dash for AI supremacy that could rival the “space race” of the 1960s – but, as with Sputnik vs Nasa, it isn’t inevitable that the ultimate winner will be the one who is first to make a big splash,

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has gone quiet this week as it enters "holiday mode" for Lunar New Year while its recent technological developments continue to send shock waves through Wall Street and Silicon Valley,

Nvidia Corporation, the world’s largest AI-chip maker recorded its largest single-day loss in NASDAQ, as its share price crashed

On President Donald Trump’s second day in office, he helped announce a private artificial intelligence venture that he said would be “the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history.” The Stargate Project,