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Masayoshi Son

93 articles accelerating

Masayoshi Son has appeared in 93 articles since 2015-05. Coverage peaked in 2026Q2 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside SoftBank, Vision Fund, WeWork, Japanese.

Articles
93
mentions
Velocity
+150.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.833
velocity change
Sources
16
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-05-31
Financial Times 11 related

SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France

Masayoshi Son places France at the centre of his global AI ambitions  —  SoftBank has pledged to invest up to €75bn …

2026-05-30
Financial Times 8 related

SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France

Masayoshi Son places France at the centre of his global AI ambitions  —  SoftBank has pledged to invest up to €75bn …

2026-05-12
Bloomberg 2 related

Sources: Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about unveiling a multibillion-dollar AI data center project in the coming weeks

2026-05-11
Bloomberg 4 related

Sources: Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about unveiling a multibillion-dollar AI data center project in the coming weeks

SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son has held talks about unveiling an ambitious French AI data center project …

2026-04-30
Financial Times 16 related

Sources: SoftBank plans to create AI and robotics company Roze in the US for building data centers, and may list it as early as 2026 at an up to $100B valuation

Masayoshi Son plots IPO for business named Roze as soon as this year  —  SoftBank is planning to create and list an AI …

2026-03-24
Financial Times 1 related

SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit, as it commits $30B more to OpenAI

Masayoshi Son faces investor nerves with massive spending on AI investments  —  SoftBank is testing a key self-imposed borrowing limit …

2026-03-10
Financial Times 3 related

SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since November 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI ties grows; on March 9, it closed down 9.8% on Stargate delay reports

Japanese group has suffered from recent share falls and a negative outlook from rating agency S&P  —  Once fired up, Masayoshi Son's investing enthusiasm knows few bounds.

2025-12-05
Wall Street Journal 6 related

Sources: Masayoshi Son and the White House plan to build “Trump Industrial Parks” in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by the Japan trade deal

SoftBank billionaire seeks to build ‘Trump Industrial Parks’ on federal land, using hundreds of billions of capital from the Japan trade deal

2025-12-02
CNBC 5 related

At a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he “was crying” over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but “I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI”

here's why FII Institute on YouTube : FII PRIORITY Asia | Watch the official livestream (En) Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : SoftBank's Masayoshi Son Says He ‘Cried’ About Selling Nvidia Stake to F...

2025-11-09
Forbes

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years

The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear.  Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 81 Techmeme articles mentioning Masayoshi Son, dating back to May 2015. The biggest stories include At a meeting with Trump, Masayoshi Son says SoftBank will invest $100B and create 100K... and Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acquiring Intel's faltering.... Frequently covered alongside SoftBank, Vision Fund, WeWork, Son, and SoftBank Group Corp.. Coverage has shifted toward developer, funding themes and away from regulation, enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q2funding -33pts; competition -100pts
2024Q4enterprise +25pts; funding -42pts
2025Q2enterprise -25pts; developer +50pts; funding -25pts

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