SoftBank said to commit $40b to the second Vision Fund

Billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., right, waves and shakes hands with a human-like robot called Pepper, developed by the company's Aldebaran Robotics unit, during a news conference in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, on Thursday, June 5, 2014. SoftBank plans to sell interactive robots for households from February next year. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Photo by Bloomberg