{"id":641455,"date":"2026-10-26T03:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641455\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:48:23","slug":"softbank-plans-50bn-ai-investment-in-malaysia-pm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641455\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank plans $50bn AI investment in Malaysia, PM says"},"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\">Anwar reports video call with Masayoshi Son as group expands Asia infrastructure push<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20261025N masa son\" 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 is looking to expand its AI infrastructure push in Asia, following investments in the U.S. and Europe. (Photo by Hikaru Yagi)<\/p>\n<p>YUSUKE YAGI<\/p>\n<p>October 26, 2026 02:11 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; SoftBank Group is discussing a $50 billion investment plan in Malaysia focused on artificial intelligence and data centers as the Japanese technology conglomerate looks to expand its AI infrastructure push in Asia following investments in the U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoftBank Anwar reports video call with Masayoshi Son as group expands Asia infrastructure push SoftBank Group is looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[314509,365,363,364,1426,1775,111,139,69,2171,16422,312,13867,145],"class_list":["post-641455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-50bn","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-investment","tag-malaysia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plans","tag-pm","tag-says","tag-softbank","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}