PayPay has filed for a US listing that could value Japan’s ubiquitous payments company at more than $10bn and help fund some ...

SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son reclaimed the crown as Japan’s richest person with shares of his Tokyo-listed investment conglomerate surging over 60% this year.

The secondary share investment is on top of SoftBank’s commitment to lead OpenAI’s $40 billion funding round, which values ...

SoftBank founder Son has made huge bets on AI, insisting that the giant’s future – in as little as 10 years will hinge on ...

Masayoshi Son has sought to put his firm SoftBank at the center of the artificial intelligence revolution. While he has made ...

SoftBank's total investment in OpenAI has reached $32 billion since 2024. “I’m all in on OpenAI,” Son said while acknowledging that he regretted not investing in the AI company earlier.

SoftBank’s chief executive, Masayoshi Son, in 2018. “I want SoftBank to lead the A.I. revolution,” he said Wednesday. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 12: SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son leaves the stage during a press conference on February 12, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has been an unstoppable force in the technology world over the last year, which included buying a chunk of Uber. As he lined up a roster of big backers for SoftBank’s ...

Masayoshi Son named his company SoftBank to illustrate the idea of “a bank of software.” Koki Nagahama/Getty Images Tech news site Recode ranked Son No.6 on Recode 100, the publication’s ...

Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, has had a topsy-turvy year or two, but the story he is eager to tell is that he is back and in the black.