During a Monday visit to President-elect Donald Trump’s resident at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son announce that the company would invest $100B in the U.S. over the next four years, CNBC’s John Melloy and Yun Li report. Son promised in the announcement, which was performed jointly with Trump, that the company would create 100,000 jobs at a minimum centered on AI and related infrastructure, the authors note. “My confidence level to the economy of the United States has tremendously increased with his victory,” Son said. “President Trump is a double down president. I’m going to have to double down.”
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