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Japanese conglomerate and investment holding company that runs the Vision Fund and holds major stakes in OpenAI and other AI and tech firms.
SoftBank is considering buying Allied Universal in a deal that could value the company at about $18 billion, Bloomberg News reported. The report frames it as a complement to Masayoshi Son's push into AI-powered robots and the infrastructure behind them.
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Korea's KOSPI fell more than 8% on Thursday, enough to halt trading for 20 minutes, after US September CPI came in at 3.7%. The print landed on a chip sector already sliding, and the clearest sign of costlier financing sits in AI borrowers' bonds.
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Samsung, SK Hynix and SoftBank lost 9.5%, 11% and 9.3% in Asia while the 30-year Treasury yield fell 9.1 basis points. The drop added only 2.6% to the present value of a 30-year dollar, so the cause looks like AI borrowing and late revenue, with inflation as an add-on.
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Jurors in Delaware found Arm breached its license agreement with Qualcomm and awarded $2 in nominal damages. Both companies claimed a win, and Notebookcheck reported that issues still open could have greater financial implications than the award.
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SoftBank sold a record $11 billion of junk bonds at yields up to 9.75%, Reuters reported. Its 2034 bond pays 4.55 points over Alphabet's 2033 issue, a premium Reuters ties to SoftBank's own risk and concentration.
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Kospi fell 6.25% on Tuesday as chip stocks slid after Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likened many AI investors to casino gamblers. The Guardian paired the remark with a report on China's CXMT memory chip, so the record does not isolate one cause.
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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is seeking up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for a new AI acquisition fund, the Financial Times reported. Outside money would pay for the next deals, while SoftBank's own balance sheet still carries the debt it took on to buy into OpenAI.
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IDC Frontier says ransomware in its IDCF Cloud East Japan Region 1 has affected 495 companies and local governments using the service. The SoftBank Group subsidiary has also locked customers out of management consoles in every region while it verifies their security.
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The backstop covers building resale value on the first 4.25GW of OpenAI's Ohio lease, in exchange for exclusive chip supply. Compute through 2032 now depends on the structure holding.
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Sesterce plans a 600MW AI campus at the shut Kaipola paper mill in Jämsä, Finland, with building on a 200MW first phase due this year. Buyers of European AI capacity get a site with grid and water already connected, though no date yet for booking it.
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Tencent is weighing an offshore bond sale of up to $5 billion, months after a $4.7 billion June deal, Bloomberg reported. The company has no listed bonds due this year and has not said what the money is for, so the case for linking the sale to its AI build rests on timing.
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Boston Dynamics made former Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad CEO from October 7, with Atlas deployments at Hyundai and Google DeepMind scheduled for 2026. His record is in shipping AI software to households, while the job he takes on is getting a humanoid to work reliably through factory shifts.
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Qualcomm asked a Delaware jury to let it stop paying Arm royalties for up to five years, a remedy Reuters reports could be worth billions of dollars. Judge Maryellen Noreika may still strike that term, which would leave Qualcomm only a smaller damages claim.
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Masayoshi Son, whose SoftBank is projected to commit $65 billion to OpenAI, is now voicing concern about AI safety risks, according to Bloomberg. Holders now have to judge whether the warning changes the money, since the stock has so far traded on what the labs say.
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SoftBank sold $11.1 billion of high-yield bonds, a record by CNBC's count, to pay the final $10 billion of its $30 billion OpenAI commitment. The debt sits with a BB+ borrower, so credit conditions reach OpenAI's money through one investor's balance sheet.
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SoftBank paid the last $10 billion of its OpenAI commitment on October 1, taking its total to $64.6 billion for about 13% of the company. It funded the payment with new senior notes, so a stake worth roughly $110 billion at February's price is now carried on bond debt.
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Low-rated companies have raised $88 billion for AI deals this year, Goldman Sachs figures show, and lenders now check revenue before they lend. Credit goes first to borrowers with long contracts and hard assets, so a small AI vendor's cost of debt shows buyers how lenders rate its staying power.
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Oracle issued a force majeure notice on Blue Owl's Jupiter campus, whose reported $18bn of bank loans already trade below 90 cents on the dollar. Lenders who priced Oracle's credit now also have to price who pays when the power arrives late.
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SoftBank is marketing junk bonds at yields up to 9.875% to raise more than $11 billion toward nearly $65 billion of OpenAI commitments. The yields are the company's highest ever at those maturities, and high-yield buyers are still competing to lend at them.
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Dario Amodei asked AI labs to slow down and the selling landed on memory makers and chip-equipment names, with software rallying against them. Oil near $108 and an 86 percent chance of a Fed hike sat in the same session.
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