Sources detail growing concerns inside SoftBank over Masayoshi Son's $60B+ bet on OpenAI, which some fear concentrates too much capital into a single company (Bloomberg)

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SoftBank insiders are reportedly concerned Masayoshi Son's $60B-plus OpenAI exposure concentrates too much capital in one AI company.

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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-19/softbank-founder-son-s-devotion-to-openai-s-altman-spooks-some-insiders"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260519/i64.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260519/p64#a260519p64" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-19/softbank-founder-son-s-devotion-to-openai-s-altman-spooks-some-insiders">Sources detail growing concerns inside SoftBank over Masayoshi Son's $60B+ bet on OpenAI, which some fear concentrates too much capital into a single company</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; With more than $60 billion committed, some SoftBank insiders are growing uneasy over Son's devotion to Altman.</p>