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

Gambling Man’ author Lionel Barber explains how Masayoshi Son went from losing money on WeWork to betting big on AI.

SoftBank Group Corp. tumbled to a loss in the December quarter, weighed down by a drop in the value of the Vision Fund’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI. The deal would make it the start-up’s biggest financial backer.

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

Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son lead talks over a record deal to make the Japanese investor the ...

The man behind SoftBank has now teamed up with OpenAI to invest up to $500 billion in American AI infrastructure over the ...