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SoftBank Group Corp. (SOBKY) has priced a ¥260 billion bond sale, or about $1.6 billion, with the highest coupon yet on its yen-denominated debt. The subordina
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said OpenAI's next model is being designed by AI in a sign of "super intelligence." Son said his previous forecast of artificial super intelligence arriving in ten years was "conservative" and he expects it will be here sooner.
The SoftBank Group (OTC:SFTBY) has greatly contributed to financing the AI revolution. To further establish its position in the AI sector, the company plans to use its stake in OpenAI as collateral to service a debt.
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Shares of SoftBank fell 10% amid a decline in other Asian tech giants. There are market concerns over the Japanese investment firm's high-risk bets on AI.
SoftBank's concentrated AI bets are reviving concerns over its mounting debt. The company's shares have surged about 70% this year on investor enthusiasm over AI.
Masayoshi Son said that his Tokyo-based technology conglomerate would unleash at least $52 billion of investment in French data centers.
SoftBank Group's Masayoshi Son has become the richest person in Asia amid the AI boom. Market euphoria has propelled shares of the Tokyo-listed investment giant to a record high, making it Japan's most valuable company by market capitalization on Monday, overtaking automaker Toyota Motor.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son outlines how he uses AI on a daily basis, as he weighs in on super-intelligence.
Marley Kayden explains why crude oil is climbing again as renewed Middle East tensions support prices. Sam Vadas breaks down the rally in SoftBank shares fueled by AI and OpenAI investment optimism.
ETFs come into focus as SoftBank dethrones Toyota as Japan's most valuable company, driven by AI infrastructure spending.
Thanks to some high conviction AI bets, SoftBank Group Corp. is back at the top of corporate Japan. But a look under the hood reveals fragilities underlying the AI-driven rally. With no more NAV discount buffer to fall back on, I'd exercise caution on SFTBY stock.
In an exclusive interview with CNBC, Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of SoftBank Group, discusses the "tremendous" opportunities in AI, and his view that any market correction would be "the best investment opportunity time." He speaks with CNBC's Arjun Kharpal in Paris.
AI revolution is '50x bigger' than the dotcom boom: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son to CNBC
Japan's Nikkei 225 rose above 67,000 for the first time on Monday, as a surge in SoftBank Group turned the technology investor into the country's most valuable listed company and underlined the growing force of the artificial intelligence trade in Tokyo. The blue-chip gauge climbed as much as 1.4% to an intraday record of 67,231.28 before ending the midday session at 67,038.24, up 1.1%.
Japan's Softbank is planning to invest 45 billion euros ($53 billion) over five years to build AI infrastructure in France in the first phase of its push. The commitment is part of a 75-billion-euro ($87 billion) program by Softbank to build AI data centers in France
SoftBank Group announced today that it plans to spend up to €75 billion (around $87 billion) to expand data center capacity in France.
SoftBank is promising to spend at least $52 billion on building a network of massive data centers in France, helping advance Europe's goal of tech independence with what would be the continent's largest AI infrastructure project.
Japan's SoftBank Group will invest €45 billion over the next five years in a push to build up artificial intelligence infrastructure in France, founder Masayoshi Son told the paper La Tribune Dimanche in an interview published on Saturday.
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SoftBank Group Corp. (SOBKY) climbed to a record high in Tokyo on Monday as investors rushed back into one of Japan's biggest AI-linked plays. The stock rose 4.
SoftBank Group (SOBKY) is returning to the retail bond market with a planned ¥260 billion subordinated bond sale, a move that signals how aggressively its AI f
SoftBank Group stock surged nearly 13% on Tuesday, hitting a record intraday high of 8,000 yen and emerging as the best performer on the Nikkei 225. The move extended the stock's winning run to a fourth straight session, turning Masayoshi Son's technology investment group into one of the clearest market winners from the latest wave of AI enthusiasm.
SoftBank's latest rally was sudden, sharp and driven by renewed excitement around artificial intelligence. The Japanese investment group added roughly $35 billion in market value on Thursday after a near-20% surge, then extended gains on Friday as investors chased exposure to Nvidia, Arm and the prospect of an OpenAI listing.
Shares of SoftBank Group extended gains for a second straight session Friday. The rally tracks a sharp rise in Arm Holdings shares overnight in the U.S.
SoftBank stock staged one of its sharpest rallies in years on Thursday, jumping 20% in Tokyo and adding about $35 billion in market value after Nvidia's results showed once again how strongly AI is driving global markets. The trigger came from California, where Nvidia reported a record quarter that beat already elevated expectations.
SoftBank Group is closely tied to the AI boom through its stake in Arm Holdings, whose chip designs are used in AI servers and data centers powered by Nvidia systems.
Power infrastructure firm SB Energy has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States, it said on Wednesday, seeking to tap buoyant investor demand for new listings.
SoftBank has committed more than $60 billion to OpenAI to date, with founder Masayoshi Son reportedly convinced Sam Altman is leading the most important technology shift of the century. But as rival Anthropic gains ground, questions are growing - even inside SoftBank - about whether the company may be too heavily tied to OpenAI's success.
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has bet $60 billion on Sam Altman and OpenAI. Find out what's driving his conviction — and why some see a risky, one‑sided dynamic emerging — on the Big Take Asia Podcast.
SoftBank Corp. (SOBKY) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
SoftBank Group Corp. delivered strong FY25 results, with revenue up 8% to ¥7,038.7 billion and robust free cash flow of ¥633.6 billion. SFTBY is pivoting decisively toward AI infrastructure, targeting ¥9 trillion in revenue and ¥1.7 trillion in operating income by FY30, driven by Enterprise Cloud & AI expansion. The 13% OpenAI stake anchors SoftBank in the global AI ecosystem, offering substantial upside via valuation growth and strategic influence over AI compute infrastructure.
Japanese conglomerate SoftBank's quarterly profits jumped nearly threefold thanks to its stake in OpenAI. The company released earnings Wednesday (May 13) showing its net profit more than tripled to 1.83 trillion yen, or $11.6 billion.
Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group posted a sharp rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday as surging gains from its investment in OpenAI boosted the performance of its Vision Fund business. The company reported a net profit of 1.9 trillion yen ($12.05 billion) for the January-March quarter, compared with a profit of 517 billion yen in the same period a year earlier.
The Japanese technology investment company has issued debt, sold stakes in companies, and borrowed against its stake in Arm Holdings and other assets to fund bold AI investments.
SoftBank posts $46 billion gain at Vision Fund driven mainly by massive OpenAI bet
Technology investor SoftBank Group recorded a net profit of 1.9 trillion yen ($12.05 billion) in the January-March quarter, it said on Wednesday.
SoftBank has funnelled $457 million into AI chip company Graphcore, which it acquired in 2024, Graphcore confirmed to CNBC. The acquisition was part of the Japanese giant's big play in AI infrastructure and hardware.
SoftBank Group is expected by analysts to report another robust quarterly profit on Wednesday as the technology investor benefits from its growing OpenAI bet, though concerns are increasing over the debt it is taking on to fund it.
SoftBank Group Corp.'s (SOBKY) mobile unit is moving deeper into the AI infrastructure race, with SoftBank Corp. planning to sell AI computing power in Japan wh
SoftBank Group's telecommunications arm—SoftBank Corp.—will build large-scale battery cells and storage systems in partnership with South Korea-based battery company Cosmos Lab and AI firm DeltaX Co.
SoftBank Group has downsized plans for a $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake after hesitation from some creditors, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter said.
Japan's SoftBank Corp has begun discussions with U.S. chip giant Nvidia and Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn as the conglomerate weighs plans to build homegrown artificial intelligence servers, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday.
Japanese markets reopened after the Golden Week holidays to a powerful AI-driven rally on Thursday, with SoftBank stock soaring as investors rushed to catch up with gains already seen across global technology stocks. Shares in the Japanese investment group jumped 16.4% on Thursday, according to market commentary, after a long holiday stretch in which US tech names kept surging, and Asian AI stocks stayed bid.
Japanese conglomerate SoftBank reportedly plans to create an American artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics company. That's according to a report Thursday (April 30) from the Financial Times (FT), which characterizes the venture, known as Roze, as part of SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son's push to make his AI ambitions a reality.
SoftBank is planning a $100 billion AI spinoff to build data centers and robotics systems, FT reported. The new entity will reportedly focus on building data centers and using robotics to improve the efficiency of AI infrastructure construction.
Tech companies are racing to build out infrastructure that can further drive the automation boom. Now, Japanese multinational SoftBank reportedly plans to create a new company designed to automate the creation of that infrastructure.
Roze AI plans to focus on AI and robotics, an area CEO Masayoshi Son sees as the ‘next frontier' for SoftBank.
SoftBank Group is planning to create and list an AI and robotics company called Roze in the U.S. that will be involved in building data centres, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
SoftBank Group (SFTBY) trades at a significant discount to its official NAV, with ADRs at $14.74 versus a published NAV of $17.11, excluding Arm's recent rerating. Arm's market value has surged since SoftBank's last NAV update, suggesting the true NAV is materially higher and the market is underappreciating SFTBY's asset base. Key catalysts include further Arm rerating, PayPay monetization, improved funding transparency, and portfolio simplification, all of which could narrow the HoldCo discount.
SoftBank Group is seeking to raise as much as $10 billion through a margin loan backed by its shares in OpenAI, according to Bloomberg News. The development comes as Masayoshi Son's group leans further on debt to finance its artificial intelligence push.
SoftBank Group is seeking a $10 billion loan secured by its shares in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
First large-scale deployment of an AI-native operating system goes on sale April 24 through SoftBank's nationwide retail network, with global expansion to follow later this year SAN MATEO, Calif., April 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brain Technologies, Inc., a U.S.-based artificial intelligence and interface company, today announced the commercial launch of the Natural AI Phone in Japan — marking the first large-scale deployment of Natural OS, its AI-native operating system that replaces traditional app-grid navigation with intention-based interaction.
SoftBank Group Corp. raised about $3.5 billion through a dual-currency bond offering, as the Japanese investment firm moves to refinance debt and partly repay a bridge loan tied to investments in OpenAI. The company secured $1.5 billion via dollar-denominated bonds and 1.75 billion euros ($2.06 billion) through euro-denominated notes, as stated in a filing on Thursday The fundraising comes at a time when global debt markets are showing signs of recovery.
Rene Haas is set to oversee much of SoftBank Group's international business while remaining chief executive of Arm, according to the Financial Times, citing people familiar with the matter. The move would give Haas a far broader operating brief as founder Masayoshi Son accelerates the Japanese group's push into artificial intelligence and advanced chips.
Chip designer Arm's CEO Rene Haas is in line to lead much of parent SoftBank Group's international business while keeping his current role at Arm, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing multiple people familiar with the matter.
SoftBank Corp., the telecom and technology arm of SoftBank Group Corp. (SOBKY), appears to be leaning further into global debt markets as its artificial intelli
ERIC deepens SoftBank partnership with a long-term deal to deploy cloud-native 5G Core, boosting Japan???s 5G shift and telecom network performance.
SoftBank has taken on a new $40 billion loan to help it cover its $30 billion commitment to invest in OpenAI as part the AI model maker's record-breaking $110 billion raise last month, the Japanese conglomerate said on Friday.
SoftBank Group (SOBKY) is escalating its push into artificial intelligence with a financing move that could redefine both its balance sheet and its role in the
