Masayoshi Masa — founder of Japanese investment company SoftBank — was due to visit the headquarters of WeWork in New York ...

When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in 2017 at SoftBank’s offices in Tokyo, the younger entrepreneur lacked a project large enough to tempt the tech billionaire to get his cheque ...

Masa first encountered Steve Jobs in the mid-1980s at the annual Comdex trade fair in Las Vegas. Sometime in the summer of 1998, they had their first serious conversation under a cherry tree at the ...

Plus, an anaemic start to the year for dealmaking in the US and talks over a $58bn Japanese carmaker deal fall apart ...

While liberals and Democrats wrung their hands, Masa was sanguine. Anyone was better than Barack Obama, whose administration had blocked SoftBank’s efforts to merge Sprint with T-Mobile to ...

The OpenAI leader and SoftBank, who are leading the mammoth Stargate effort, have poured hundreds of millions into Helion.

SoftBank chief Masa Son said he now thinks AGI will be here faster than initially thought. What does this mean for ChatGPT?

A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the ...

On December 6, 2016, Masayoshi Masa — founder of Japanese investment company SoftBank — was due to visit the headquarters of WeWork in New York City. As usual, he was running late, and his ...