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

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.

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,

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

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 technology companies rose after a mixed batch of earnings. Shares of Microsoft slid after the software giant's cloud-computing unit's growth fell short of Wall Street analysts' projections.

US stocks rose on Thursday, with the Nasdaq (^IXIC) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) eyeing a comeback as investors digested news that the US economy expanded slower than economists had expected in the last three months of the year.

Some of the funding would be used to help cover OpenAI’s $18 billion commitment to the recently announced Stargate project.

Japan's SoftBank is leading the investment round and is in talks to invest $15-25 billion in the deal that would make it the ChatGPT-maker's biggest financial backer. The reports came after Chinese startup DeepSeek sparked panic this week with a powerful new chatbot developed at a fraction of the cost of its US competitors,

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.