{"id":274271,"date":"2026-06-16T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/softbank-launches-cybersecurity-product-based-on-openai-models\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:15:10","slug":"softbank-launches-cybersecurity-product-based-on-openai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/softbank-launches-cybersecurity-product-based-on-openai-models\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank launches cybersecurity product based on OpenAI models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/info-tech\/softbank-launches-cybersecurity-product-based-on-openai-models\/article71108600.ece\">SoftBank launches cybersecurity product based on OpenAI models<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/info-tech\/softbank-launches-cybersecurity-product-based-on-openai-models\/article71108600.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/info-tech\/softbank-launches-cybersecurity-product-based-on-openai-models\/article71108600.ece<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 07:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thehindubusinessline.com\">www.thehindubusinessline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Chen, chief research officer of Open AI Inc., during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. SoftBank and OpenAI will provide cybersecurity services for Japan to secure critical infrastructure, according to SoftBank Group Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t| Photo Credit:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAkio Kon\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s SoftBank Group<br \/>\nhas launched a cybersecurity \u200bproduct designed to counter<br \/>\nbreaches enabled by \u200cartificial intelligence, the company said \u200bon<br \/>\nTuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Patching as a Service&#8221; product \u2060will be rolled out in<br \/>\nJapan through a joint venture established last November between<br \/>\nSoftBank&#8217;s \u200cdomestic telecoms arm, SoftBank Corp, and<br \/>\nOpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>The launch deepens ties \u200cbetween the two firms, which \u200chave<br \/>\nbeen \u2060developing AI system integration services \u2060for Japanese<br \/>\nbusinesses, and comes amid growing fears for the security risks<br \/>\nposed by the latest \u200bAI capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Last \u200cweek the U.S. government suspended access to OpenAI<br \/>\nrival Anthropic&#8217;s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to foreign<br \/>\nnationals \u200cover national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want \u200bto create a system where we will be able \u2060to defend<br \/>\ncritical Japanese infrastructure,&#8221; SoftBank founder and chief<br \/>\nexecutive Masayoshi Son said at \u200ca presentation to enterprise<br \/>\nclients in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to leverage the new weapon of OpenAI to defend, we<br \/>\nsee this as our obligation,&#8221; Son added.<\/p>\n<p>SoftBank Group is one of \u200cOpenAI&#8217;s largest backers and its<br \/>\ncumulative committed investment \u200bby the end of 2026 stands at<br \/>\n$64.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>At present there \u2060are around 50 people working on \u2060the product<br \/>\nrollout and this is set to expand to around \u200c1,000 people,<br \/>\nSoftBank Corp chief executive Junichi Miyakawa said at<br \/>\nthe presentation \u200bon Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on  June 16, 2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/info-tech\/softbank-launches-cybersecurity-product-based-on-openai-models\/article71108600.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank launches cybersecurity product based on OpenAI models https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/info-tech\/softbank-launches-cybersecurity-product-based-on-openai-models\/article71108600.ece Publish Date: 2026-06-16 07:01:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bl-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/66a24v\/article71108860.ece\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/458553049.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-274271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274271"}],"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=274271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274275,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274271\/revisions\/274275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}