In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi Son was stewing. After declaring for years the imminent arrival of the artificial-intelligence revolution,

President Donald Trump talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to AI by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.

The initiative announced by President Donald Trump will aim to "secure American leadership in AI" while also creating jobs and economic benefit.

“I am Masayoshi Son, and SoftBank is not a bank ... “We became a topic of conversation in Washington,” says a SoftBank insider. “Masa found himself in an awkward place.”

The $500 billion Stargate Initiative — led by Trump, OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle — is set to revolutionize U.S. AI infrastructure.

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,

President Trump hosted executives from Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle at the White House Tuesday to announce “Stargate,” a $500BN private-sector plan to build new AI data centers.

Trump announced Tuesday that OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle would join forces to create Stargate, a new company investing $500 billion in AI infrastructure.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed criticism from close ally Elon Musk about a $500 billion artificial intelligence project that Trump announced with great fanfare at the White House earlier this week.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on ... Joining Trump fresh off his inauguration at the White House were Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle.

Tech bros have taken to X in an extraordinary public spat to question each other’s financial muscle over Donald Trump’s $800b AI joint venture. Elon Musk said, “they don’t have the money”.

Here are the top takeaways from Trump’s press conference. One of Trump’s first executive actions as the 47th president of the nation was to grant pardons and commutations to all of the defendants convicted over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, sparking criticism from Democrats who denounced the move.