{"id":41842,"date":"2026-06-16T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/41842\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:56:39","slug":"softbank-and-openai-team-up-to-shield-japan-from-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/41842\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank and OpenAI team up to shield Japan from cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp.<\/a> is launching a service using OpenAI<\/a> technology to protect against the looming threat of cyberattacks, both companies said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Chief Executive Masayoshi Son called Japan\u2019<\/a> s vulnerability to cyberattacks \u201ca crisis,\u201d comparing it to a potential assault by machine guns instead of the rifle shots of the past.<\/p>\n

SoftBank will offer \u201ca patching service,\u201d targeting the nation\u2019s top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure like airports, power systems and transportation, Son said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel it is our duty,\u201d Son said, repeatedly referring to the criminal attackers as \u201cthe bad guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

The service involves first diagnosing any weaknesses to attacks, and then analyzing what needs to be done to patch up such \u201choles,\u201d Son said.<\/p>\n

Sam Altman, chief of OpenAI<\/a>, was scheduled to attend the launch, but instead appeared only in a short video. He said he couldn\u2019t make it because his baby daughter was born earlier than expected. Mark Chen, OpenAI\u2019s chief researcher, was present in his place.<\/p>\n

SoftBank and OpenAI, behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, set up a 50:50 joint venture named SB OAI Japan last year to develop and exclusively market an AI service for the Japanese market.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s announcement was a key update, highlighting the rollout. No monetary value was announced. But SoftBank said everyone who came to the presentation in Tokyo Tuesday can apply for a free diagnosis. <\/p>\n

The use of AI has caused the number of attacks to balloon exponentially and grow more complex, meaning defenses have had to become more AI-savvy and versatile.<\/p>\n

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Yuri Kageyama is on Threads: https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@yurikageyama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. is launching a service using OpenAI technology to protect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2121,373,217,3456,1724,1186,17003,420,8,30068,250,17293,30069,1340,1337,907,213,1249],"class_list":["post-41842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-asia-pacific","tag-business","tag-crime","tag-cybercrime","tag-general-news","tag-information-technology","tag-international","tag-japan","tag-mark-chen","tag-masayoshi-son","tag-openai-inc","tag-sam-altman","tag-softbank-corp","tag-softbank-group-corp","tag-technology","tag-world-news","tag-yuri-kageyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}