Masayoshi Son's bold bets on tech defined an era. A new book asks if the SoftBank boss is a visionary or a gambler.

Not far from the storied venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road, there’s a palatial estate where Masayoshi Son, Silicon Valley’s newest kingmaker, shapes the future. Reaching him requires ...

Billionaire Masayoshi Son has a vision for the future of the world. But what does that vision look like? Lionel Barber is the former editor-in-chief of The Financial Times and author of the book ...

From visionary bets in Yahoo, Alibaba, and Arm, to disastrous gambles on WeWork and Vision Funds, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has defied both logic and expectations. Self-styled as a modern Ghengis Khan, ...

SoftBank today posted a whopping $11.1 billion net profit between Oct and Dec 2020, thanks to the performance from his Vision Fund. Masayoshi Son said that SoftBank was like the goose that turned ...

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son announced an accelerated timeline for the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and unveiled a partnership with OpenAI to develop AI agent technology for ...

March 1 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group (9984.T), opens new tab CEO Masayoshi Son plans to borrow $16 billion to invest in AI, the company's executives told banks last week, The Information tech news ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI stepped up their AI partnership Monday, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan. SoftBank Chief Masayoshi Son and ...

SoftBank lost at least $4.7 billion by investing in WeWork after the shared-workspace group's IPO collapsed and its valuation plunged from $47 billion in January to below $10 billion. "My own ...