Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump’s big new AI push, is the son of an immigrant pig farmer with a spectacular but

By Sam Nussey and Anton Bridge TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son's plan to invest billions in AI in the United States shows one way to handle the new Trump administration: go big and deal with the details later.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on January 21 that Japan's SoftBank Group, Open AI and Oracle will together

The president said it will be the largest AI infrastructure ever built and that it will help counter technology threats from China and other countries.

SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle are launching a $100 billion joint venture to enhance AI infrastructure, with plans to escalate investment to $500 billion. The initiative, supported by President Donald Trump,

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a major investment to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) led by Japan’s Softbank Group Corp, cloud giant Oracle Corp and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

Microsoft’s chief executive has gone viral for a “gangster” response to comments by Elon Musk trashing President Donald Trump’s $US500 billion ($795 billion) AI mega-project.

Arm stock jumped yesterday on the news about Stargate, a new AI infrastructure project targeting $100 billion to $500 billion in investment, as Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son was one of the three tech chiefs at the announcement, and Softbank, which owns about 90% of Arm, is in charge of financing the project.

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

Hyped ahead of its announcement, U.S. President Donald Trump has declared plans to inject $500 billion into artificial intelligence infrastructure through a new public-private partnership named

President Donald Trump has announced several notable private sector investments into the U.S. tech sector in the wake of his electoral victory as he looks to tout economic momentum.