{"id":236574,"date":"2026-06-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/softbanks-son-calls-ai-bubble-talk-an-insult-delays-retiring\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:15:12","slug":"softbanks-son-calls-ai-bubble-talk-an-insult-delays-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/softbanks-son-calls-ai-bubble-talk-an-insult-delays-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Softbank\u2019s Son calls AI bubble talk an \u2018insult,\u2019 delays retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/25\/2003859680\">Softbank\u2019s Son calls AI bubble talk an \u2018insult,\u2019 delays retiring<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/25\/2003859680\">https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/25\/2003859680<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.taipeitimes.com\">www.taipeitimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the key points of the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Masayoshi Son&#8217;s Commitment<\/strong>: Softbank Group Corp chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son has indicated he has no plans to retire soon. He emphasized the ongoing nature and potential revolutionary impact of the AI field.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Revolution<\/strong>: Son argued that the current state of AI is in its infancy and thus characterizing it as a bubble is inappropriate and dismissive of its vast potential.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Long-Term Vision<\/strong>: Son plans to remain at the helm for another 10 to 15 years to capitalize on the AI boom and to grow Softbank into a leading AI-powered robotics company.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Investment Strategy<\/strong>: Softbank has committed to investing extensively in AI, highlighted by its pledges to invest $65 billion in OpenAI and its acquisition plans for ABB Ltd\u2019s robotics unit.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Advancement and Collaboration<\/strong>: Son stated that AI is meant to augment and collaborate with human capabilities rather than replace humans.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future Plans<\/strong>: Softbank aims to establish and list an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US, with plans to do this within the coming year or shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Market Goals<\/strong>: The company remains committed to achieving a market value of 200 trillion yen (approx. $1.2 trillion) by 2040.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Focus on Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)<\/strong>: Son expressed his intention to pursue ASI fully once he reaches his seventies, aiming to be the best in this field.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softbank\u2019s Son calls AI bubble talk an \u2018insult,\u2019 delays retiring https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/25\/2003859680 Publish Date: 2026-06-24 12:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.taipeitimes.com\/images\/2026\/06\/25\/P09-260625-314.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236577,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236574\/revisions\/236577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}