{"id":1048150,"date":"2026-11-09T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048150"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:51:00","slug":"why-beijing-blocked-softbanks-5-4-billion-abb-robotics-deal-setback-for-masayoshi-sons-physical-ai-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/why-beijing-blocked-softbanks-5-4-billion-abb-robotics-deal-setback-for-masayoshi-sons-physical-ai-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Beijing blocked SoftBank\u2019s $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal? Setback for Masayoshi Son\u2019s physical AI ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has blocked Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank Group\u2019s proposed $5.4 billion acquisition of the robotics business of Swiss-Swedish engineering giant ABB<br \/>\n, dealing a significant setback to founder Masayoshi Son\u2019s ambitions to expand into physical artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by The Japan Times, ABB confirmed that a Chinese government agency had prohibited the transaction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has blocked Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank Group\u2019s proposed $5.4 billion acquisition of the robotics business of Swiss-Swedish engineering giant ABB , dealing a significant setback to founder Masayoshi Son\u2019s ambitions to expand into physical artificial intelligence (AI). According to a report by The Japan Times, ABB confirmed that a Chinese government agency had prohibited the transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048151,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048150\/revisions\/1048151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}