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SoftBank Aims To Become The Leading Artificial Superintelligence Company Within the Next 10 Years
- Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
- Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager
SoftBank Group announced this Friday that it wants to become the largest provider for the leading artificial super intelligence (ASI) platform within the next 10 years. The company’s CEO, Masayoshi Son, explained at a conference that they are working to take the lead in ASI technology development.
In a rush? Here are the quick facts:
- SoftBank Group announced it wants to become the largest provider for the leading ASI platform within the next 10 years.
- CEO Masayoshi Son said he is “all in on OpenAI.”
- Son said SoftBank should become the “organiser of the industry in the artificial super intelligence era.”
According to Reuters , Son addressed a group of stakeholders at the company’s annual meeting and emphasised the need for leadership as well as SoftBank’s commitment to OpenAI.
“We want to become the organiser of the industry in the artificial super intelligence era,” said Son. The CEO also mentioned being “all in on OpenAI.”
SoftBank appears to be focusingheavily on ASI , joining other tech companies on this emerging trend. A few days ago, Meta announced it is building a new “superintelligence” AI lab and has been recruiting talent and acquiring companies such as Scale AI for this initiative.
OpenAI has also reminded the public that it is a “superintelligence research company,” just days after Meta’s announcement, increasing the tension in the ASI race. SoftBank has invested $32 billion in OpenAI since autumn 2024 and plans to underwrite up to $40 billion in new funding this year.
Son said he regretted not investing more in OpenAI back in 2019 and noted that he expects the company to go public soon. Both companies are also working in joint ventures such as the $500 billion Stargate project, which aims to develop advanced technology for the United States.
According to CNBC , SoftBank takes advantage of the tensions between OpenAI and Microsoft to gain ground as an ally of the AI company.
Son has previously described ASI as “AI that is 10,000 times smarter than humans.” Besides OpenAI, SoftBank believes that its alliance with the British semiconductor company Arm is crucial to advancing this technology.
SoftBank has been aggressively investing in AI-related companies and technologies, and is reportedly interested in establishing an industrial complex in the U.S. dedicated to developing AI technologies.
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Meta Adds AI-Powered Summaries To WhatsApp
- Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
- Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager
Meta’s messaging app WhatsApp announced on Wednesday a new feature called Message Summaries, designed to quickly summarize messages in a chat. The feature is powered by Meta AI and helps users get an overview of the private discussions in group chats or conversations before reading the full messages.
In a rush? Here are the quick facts:
- WhatsApp launched a Meta AI-powered feature called Message Summaries.
- The feature has been designed to quickly summarize messages in chats.
- Meta began to roll out Message Summaries in English in the United States and expects to expand to more regions soon.
According to WhatsApp’s announcement , the new feature keeps users’ conversations private and has begun to roll out in English in the United States. The messaging company, which recently surpassed 3 billion active users worldwide, said it expects to expand the feature to more regions soon.
“Message Summaries uses Private Processing technology, which allows Meta AI to generate a response without Meta or WhatsApp ever seeing your messages or the private summaries,” states the document. “ No one else in the chat can see that you summarized unread messages either.”
Meta emphasized that this is an optional feature, and those who want to test it must activate it through their settings. WhatsApp also noted that through Advanced Chat Privacy, users can choose which conversations they want to include or exclude from AI features.
WhatsApp believes Message Summaries will be especially helpful when users have been offline for several hours—such as after taking a flight without Wi-Fi or when juggling multiple conversations at once.
42 unread messages about the new tennis court location, time change, recap of the last match…now you can catch up with message summaries pic.twitter.com/phr1ku0WPg — WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) June 25, 2025
The messaging app also invited users—particularly those concerned about privacy—to read its engineering blog on AI tools for WhatsApp, as well as the Technical White Paper and Security Guide published on June 10. This week, the White House banned WhatsApp over data concerns, spreading worry among users.
A few days ago, WhatsApp also introduced paid ads on its platform for the first time, appearing in the Updates section.
