Among the bolder overtures has been billionaire SoftBank CEO Masayoshi ... over four years. Son, known affectionately as Masa, founded Japan-based SoftBank in 1981 with an eye toward investing ...

Tech investing heavyweight Masayoshi Son offered a gift to President-elect Donald Trump: a pledge to spend $100 billion on artificial intelligence and related technology in the U.S. “President ...

In 2017, Son launched the $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund, which sank billions into WeWork before the co-working startup filed for bankruptcy in 2023. Then there was Nvidia.

The fabled SoftBank Vision Fund 1 is sinking. During the fourth quarter earnings call on May 18, the group’s chief executive Masayoshi Son revealed that his flagship tech fund had suffered ...