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SoftBank

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859 articles decelerating

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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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...
The Red Lines
On the day OpenAI closed $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation, Sam Altman told staff the company shares Anthropic's "red lines" on military AI — while pursu...
Before the Music Stops
Benedict Evans said Sam Altman is "desperately swapping paper for assets before the music stops." January 2 showed what that looks like—and how fast the convers...

Coverage Timeline

2023-05-21
Financial Times 3 related

Sources: top shareholder SoftBank demanded compensation from Revolut after UK regulators told the startup to simplify its ownership to obtain a banking license

They are nowhere near listing-ready, we're not in 2021.  Will they ever be? … Maarten Ectors : Vodafone and BT are axing tens of thousands of jobs because of technology innovations.  Revolut made most...

2023-03-04
Financial Times 11 related

Some UK officials and SoftBank staff blame onerous FCA rules, complexity and cost, inflexibility, and political chaos for Arm's decision to shun London listing

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2021-07-26
Financial Times 2 related

China's edtech overhaul could eliminate foreign investors from the sector and wipe out billions invested by Sequoia, Tiger, Tencent, and SoftBank's Vision Fund

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2021-07-12
Wall Street Journal 2 related

Sources: ridesharing giant Didi gave Chinese regulators the impression it would pause its IPO, as it told bankers in New York it had a green light from Beijing

Goldman, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan—have faced investor anger over why they didn't see this coming. Japan's SoftBank, a big financial backer, was surprised to see Didi move so quickly, and left in t...

2021-04-20
Reuters 17 related

UK says it will intervene in SoftBank's sale of ARM to Nvidia on national security grounds

2021-04-19
Reuters 13 related

UK says it will intervene in SoftBank's sale of ARM to Nvidia on national security grounds

Britain said on Monday it would intervene in SoftBank's (9984.T) sale of chip designer ARM Holdings to U.S. group Nvidia (NVDA.O) on national security grounds, and had requested a report on the implic...

2020-08-28
CNBC 11 related

Sources: Walmart sought majority stake in TikTok, but US demanded a tech firm as lead investor; Walmart originally was in consortium with SoftBank and Alphabet

- Walmart wanted to be the majority owner of TikTok, but the U.S. government demanded a technology company that could secure …

2018-12-06
Financial Times 9 related

Millions of users on O2 in UK are unable to use mobile data due to a software problem in Ericsson's equipment; SoftBank in Japan was affected for several hours

Millions of mobile phone users around the world have been unable to use their smartphones after a software issue in systems provided by Ericsson caused major disruption.

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SoftBank has appeared in 853 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 funding 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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