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SoftBank

859 articles stable

SoftBank has appeared in 859 articles since 2015-02. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 29 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Vision Fund, Masayoshi Son, Japanese, Vision Fund 2.

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66
publications
The Meter and the Dashboard
On one day, the cost of AI got repriced and made legible at three layers at once — inference, memory, and electricity — while a fourth story argued the value th...
The Architects
OpenAI launched the Stargate Project to own compute at the scale its products required. Fifteen months later, the JV is abandoned in practice and the engineers ...
The Architect's Chip
For 35 years, Arm designed chips for everyone and competed with no one. Today it unveiled its own AI chip — with Nvidia's biggest customers as first buyers. Reg...
"We've Achieved AGI"
Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman that AGI has been achieved. The same day, OpenAI guaranteed private equity firms a 17.5% minimum return and signed a 5-gigawatt el...
The Leverage
Oracle abandoned the Stargate Texas datacenter on the same day it announced thousands of layoffs from a "cash crunch." SoftBank needs its largest bridge loan ev...

Coverage Timeline

2026-06-10
Bloomberg 4 related

Sources: SoftBank's talks with creditors to raise $6B through a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake have stalled, weeks after it cut its target from $10B

2026-06-07
Bloomberg 4 related

SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for $840M, expected to close in October 2027

2026-06-06
Bloomberg 4 related

SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for $840M, expected to close in October 2027

SoftBank Group Corp.'s payments unit is buying the life insurance unit of T&D Holdings Inc. for ¥134.3 billion ($840 million) …

2026-06-02
Bloomberg 2 related

Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan from 2025 to build five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners

SoftBank Announces €75 Bln AI Data Center Plan in France  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:01 Loaded: 15.31% Playback Rate

2026-06-01
Financial Times 12 related

SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years

2026-05-31
Financial Times 11 related

SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France

Masayoshi Son places France at the centre of his global AI ambitions  —  SoftBank has pledged to invest up to €75bn …

2026-05-30
Financial Times 8 related

SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France

Masayoshi Son places France at the centre of his global AI ambitions  —  SoftBank has pledged to invest up to €75bn …

2026-05-26
Bloomberg 6 related

SoftBank's shares jumped 4.6% to a record high on May 25, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy if they go public

2026-05-25
Bloomberg 5 related

SoftBank stock jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public

SoftBank Group Corp. shares climbed to a record high, spurred by hopes of big returns from the Japanese investor's stakes in OpenAI …

Bloomberg

Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking Tether's stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M

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Quarterly Coverage

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SoftBank has appeared in 872 Techmeme articles since February 2015, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary... and OpenAI raised $6.6B led by Thrive Capital, the largest VC deal of all time, valuing it at.... Frequently covered alongside Vision Fund, Masayoshi Son, Vision Fund 2, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and TechCrunch. Coverage has shifted toward developer themes and away from enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -12pts; consumer -23pts; research +10pts
2024Q3enterprise +10pts; consumer +30pts; research +10pts
2024Q4developer +18pts; consumer -40pts; research -20pts

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