{"id":274207,"date":"2026-06-16T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/softbank-launches-openai-patching-service-for-cybersecurity\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:50:17","slug":"softbank-launches-openai-patching-service-for-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/softbank-launches-openai-patching-service-for-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Launches OpenAI Patching Service for Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/softbank-launches-openai-patching-service-for-cybersecurity-2c9048c8\">SoftBank Launches OpenAI Patching Service for Cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/softbank-launches-openai-patching-service-for-cybersecurity-2c9048c8\">https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/softbank-launches-openai-patching-service-for-cybersecurity-2c9048c8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 04:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"letsdatascience.com\">letsdatascience.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[21px] text-stone-700 leading-[1.45] font-serif font-light pb-7 pr-4 max-w-[68ch]\">Per reporting from The Associated Press and the Washington Post, <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">SoftBank Group Corp.<\/strong> is launching a service that uses <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">OpenAI<\/strong> technology to detect and &#8220;patch&#8221; cybersecurity weaknesses for large Japanese organisations. <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">Masayoshi Son<\/strong> described the vulnerability to cyberattacks as &#8220;a crisis&#8221; and said the offering is &#8220;a patching service&#8221; targeting the nation&#8217;s top <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">3,000<\/strong> companies, including critical infrastructure operators, The Washington Post reports. The companies set up a <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">50:50<\/strong> joint venture, <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">SB OAI Japan<\/strong>, last year to develop and exclusively market AI services for Japan, according to the coverage. OpenAI CEO <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">Sam Altman<\/strong> did not attend the Tokyo launch because his daughter was born earlier than expected, and <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">Mark Chen<\/strong>, OpenAI&#8217;s chief researcher, attended in his place, the reporting says. No financial terms were disclosed; SoftBank said attendees at the event can apply for a free diagnosis, per the coverage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/softbank-launches-openai-patching-service-for-cybersecurity-2c9048c8\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Launches OpenAI Patching Service for Cybersecurity https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/softbank-launches-openai-patching-service-for-cybersecurity-2c9048c8 Publish Date: 2026-06-16 04:55:00 Source Domain: letsdatascience.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/6a310f5ace4de2afbc773df0jpeg.jpg?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,27],"class_list":["post-274207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274210,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274207\/revisions\/274210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}