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Jensen Huang says SoftBank's Masayoshi Son once offered to help him buy out Nvidia — but he passed
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he turned down a chance to buy out the chip giant, while SoftBank CEO …
Theron Mohamed
Masayoshi Son is the $100 billion gambler who went from dirt track to tech titan — and he isn't done betting yet
Masayoshi Son's bold bets on tech defined an era. A new book asks if the SoftBank boss is a visiona…
Hasan Chowdhury
SoftBank is Nvidia's first Blackwell chips customer. Here's what they're going to be used for.
The collaboration comes amid skyrocketing demand for Nvidia chips, as companies scramble to secure …
Shubhangi Goel
Masayoshi Son made $72 billion betting on Jack Ma's Alibaba. Now he wants to do it again with AI.
More than two decades on from his first bet on Alibaba, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is ready to go a…
Hasan Chowdhury
Looks like Masayoshi Son's plan to go all in on AI is starting to pay off for SoftBank
SoftBank posted a quarterly profit of about $1.5 billion, driven by its big bet on the chip designe…
Hasan Chowdhury
OpenAI's investors include Silicon Valley's most prolific bubble-chasers. Is that a bad sign for the company's future?
OpenAI's investors include Silicon Valley's most prolific bubble-chasers; is that a bad sign for th…
Darius Rafieyan
The investors behind OpenAI's historic $6.6 billion funding round
OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion in a new funding round that's also one of the largest private invest…
Alex Bitter,Ana Altchek,Hasan…
Softbank is planning to invest in OpenAI, report says, after Masayoshi Son said he uses ChatGPT every day
Softbank is considering investing in OpenAI, after boss Masayoshi Son told Softbank shareholders he…
Tom Carter
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son thinks his firm will 'rule the world' thanks to its AI investments. Believe it or not, that's not as far-fetched as his previous claims.
The Vision Fund is reportedly planning to let go some employees this week following quarter after q…
Thomas Maxwell
Sam Altman says we probably won't need a new device for the AI future
Despite a flurry of new AI devices hitting the market, the OpenAI CEO has said we may not need a se…
Beatrice Nolan
Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez were among the top tech bosses and business leaders to attend a lavish White House dinner
Over 200 guests attended the dinner, including Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sánchez, Apple's Tim Co…
Alexandra Bacon
Nvidia just showed the world it's the AI king
Nvidia blew away expectations as it reported $22.1 billion in quarterly revenue.
Hasan Chowdhury,George Glover
It's not just Sam Altman trying to throw money at the AI chip shortage
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is the latest leader to tap up investors for a new venture that plans to a…
Hasan Chowdhury
SoftBank is reportedly under investigation by the SEC following its risky 'Nasdaq whale' investments
SoftBank's investment arm, SB Northstar, made risky multibillion-dollar bets on tech stocks in 2020…
Tyler Sonnemaker
Jack Dorsey eases Twitter into life after Trump
In this week's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter we look at the future of Twitter, SoftBank an…
Alexei Oreskovic
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son says he and Alibaba's Jack Ma send each other drawings to keep in touch
The two businessmen have been friends for years, and Son said on Monday that they've kept tabs on e…
Katie Canales
Marcelo Claure and Paul Judge bought SoftBank's diversity fund. Now they're trying to raise $200 million for it.
Claure and Judge are trying to recreate and capitalize on the success of the fund's first vehicle w…
Vishal Persaud
Unicorns and startups should prepare for a longer funding winter, says SoftBank's Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son, Founder and CEO of Japanese investment group Softbank, on Monday warned unicorns and…
First he was a teacher. Then he was China's top tech titan. Now, meet Jack Ma 3.0 a high-tech farmer.
The Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma has stayed out of the limelight since angering Beijing. In the meanti…
Huileng Tan
SoftBank CEO says he doesn't understand bitcoin, and watching the price fluctuate was 'distracting my focus on my own business'
The SoftBank CEO invested close to $200 million of his own money into bitcoin, but quickly grew tir…