{"id":76009,"date":"2025-08-17T22:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76009\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:18:11","slug":"softbank-lifts-stake-in-nvidia-as-son-goes-all-in-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76009\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank lifts stake in Nvidia as Son goes all in on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/softbank\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoftBank<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japan tech group&#8217;s stock hits record highs on hopes for latest pivot<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20250815N son and huang\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">SoftBank Group Chairman &amp; CEO Masayoshi Son, right, embraces\u00a0Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Nvidia AI Summit Japan last year in Tokyo. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)<\/p>\n<p>YUSUKE YAGI<\/p>\n<p>August 16, 2025 02:45 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; SoftBank Group has increased its stake in chipmaker Nvidia, the world&#8217;s most valuable listed company,\u00a0part of a strategic shift toward artificial intelligence and away from telecommunications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoftBank Japan tech group&#8217;s stock hits record highs on hopes for latest pivot SoftBank Group Chairman &amp; CEO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,3265,254,255,64,63,58544,28330,2291,58542,9705,58543,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-76009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-all","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-goes","15":"tag-lifts","16":"tag-nvidia","17":"tag-softbank","18":"tag-son","19":"tag-stake","20":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}