Masayoshi Masa — founder of Japanese investment company SoftBank — was due to visit the headquarters of WeWork in New York ...

If Son spends $40 billion or more on his investment into OpenAI, it would be one of his largest ever – beating SoftBank’s $16 billion deal with WeWork, the failed office space company.

If Son spends $40bn or more, it would be one of his biggest-ever investments, eclipsing the $16bn that SoftBank injected into failed office space group WeWork. OpenAI has raised roughly $20bn over ...