In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, ...

He was just able to handle it. When you're talking to Masayoshi Son, how are you getting his attention? Lionel Barber: Well, the first time I turned up in Tokyo, I was told he was too busy to see me.

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in 2017 at SoftBank’s offices in Tokyo, the ...

OpenAI‘s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son during a news conference earlier this month at the White House. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by ...

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