Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump's big new AI push, is the son of an immigrant pig farmer with a spectacular but also sketchy investment record.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Stargate, “the most important project for this era” and promised that all of the new investment his company was making would help cure diseases. Altman was actually prompted by Trump to talk about the medical advances that AI would supposedly figure out.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son's plan to invest billions in AI in the United States shows one way to handle the new Trump administration: go big and deal with the details later. For a Japan Inc anxious ab

Yes, that's the name of a 1994 Roland Emmerich movie. It's now a big infrastructure project to help power tech giants' foray into AI.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at a White House press conference on President Donald Trump's plan for AI infrastructure investment. MASA SON, SOFTBANK: Oh, thank you. That would be helpful. That's good.

Trump has promised to accelerate the production of American-made AI to compete against China for global leadership in the technology.

President Donald Trump talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to AI by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.

Donald Trump meme coin TRUMP bounced back 20% after a steep correction triggered by the President saying he didn't know much about the token.

President Donald Trump unveiled the $500 billion Stargate Project for AI infrastructure in the US, sending AI cryptos surging.