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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son warns of AI safety risks

Rank
Running: 36h
Updated: 9h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 3

Bloomberg United States · English 4 Oct, 09:32 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in 中文 (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Bloomberg, 4 Oct, 09:32 UTC.
Second country: Japan, with TBS News Dig.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with TBS News Dig.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%83%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 3 countries · 83%

First movers

Bloomberg 4 Oct, 09:32 UTC
TBS News Dig +1h 58m
Liberty Times +14h 45m
The Japan Times +16h 4m
Times of India +18h 57m

Latest arrivals

NDTV 5 Oct, 12:13 UTC
Times of India 5 Oct, 04:29 UTC
The Japan Times 5 Oct, 01:36 UTC
Liberty Times 5 Oct, 00:17 UTC
TBS News Dig 4 Oct, 11:30 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 3: India, Japan, Taiwan. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Japanese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Bloomberg, 4 Oct 2026, 09:32 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 09:50 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 12:13 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Japan. Topic Technology. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.23, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

4 Oct 2026 398 2.33 2 2 2 2 4.1

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Started 4 Oct, 09:50 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 12:13 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Bloomberg United States 5 Oct, 02:05 UTC
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Has Rare Cautionary Note on AI Safety
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- SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Has Rare Cautionary Note on AI Safety 4 Oct, 09:32 UTC

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

NDTV India 5 Oct, 12:13 UTC
'Superintelligence Can Become Super Dangerous': SoftBank Chief On AI Risks
Times of India India 5 Oct, 04:29 UTC
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, after selling Nvidia stake for OpenAI, now has a ‘request’
The Japan Times Japan 5 Oct, 01:36 UTC
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has rare cautionary note on AI safety
Liberty Times Taiwan 5 Oct, 00:17 UTC
矽谷巨擘急煞車！AI狂熱信徒孫正義罕見警告：超級智慧「極度危險」
TBS News Dig Japan 4 Oct, 11:30 UTC
ソフトバンクGの孫氏､AIの安全性に異例の懸念表明－超知能は危険伴う