SoftBank Group
SoftBank Group is a Japanese telecom company founded in 1981.
Source: Wikidata
- TYPE
- Company
- SIGNALS
- 20
- FIRST SEEN
- Sep 13, 2026
- LAST SEEN
- Oct 25, 2026
- ALSO KNOWN AS
- SoftBank
Recent signals
- SoftBank’s Son Plans $50 Billion Malaysia Tech Outlay, PM Says Oct 25, 2026
- Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public as soon as December or waiting until 2027, as it closely watches Anthropic's IPO, expected in November (The Information) Oct 22, 2026
- AI debt worries mount as CoreWeave's bond yield tops 15%, insuring SoftBank debt gets pricier, and some Oracle debt trades near 80 to 90 cents on the dollar (New York Times) Oct 18, 2026
- Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots (Bloomberg) Oct 16, 2026
- SoftBank Is Said to Weigh Buying Top US Security Firm Allied Oct 16, 2026
- Sources: SoftBank is seeking to raise up to $100B from Gulf investors for a fund to buy companies and improve their operations with AI and other advanced tech (Financial Times) Oct 9, 2026
- SoftBank Seeks $100 Billion From Gulf Investors for AI, FT Says Oct 9, 2026
- SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Has Rare Cautionary Note on AI Safety Oct 4, 2026
- SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's last funding round; source: Nvidia also made its final $10B investment in the round (The Information) Oct 1, 2026
- Sources on how SoftBank's $11B junk bond sale landed, despite investor questions about OpenAI's listing timeline, data center plans, and SB Energy's delayed IPO (Bloomberg) Sep 28, 2026
- Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, and SoftBank partner with key US unions to launch the American Infrastructure Alliance, aiming to create data center standards in 2027 (Hans Nichols/Axios) Sep 28, 2026
- Nvidia Buying an Additional $1.5 Billion in SB Energy Shares Ahead of IPO Sep 21, 2026
- SoftBank Seeking Over $11 Billion in Junk Bond Deal for OpenAI Investment Sep 21, 2026
- Sources: SoftBank is looking to issue $10B and €1B in debt for its OpenAI investment, in what would be one of the biggest junk bond sales ever (Bloomberg) Sep 20, 2026
- Anthropic’s Claude Takes Bigger Role in Building AI Sep 18, 2026
- SoftBank Raises Arm Margin Loan to $25 Billion as AI Bets Grow Sep 18, 2026
- SoftBank CDS Hovers Near 3-Year High on OpenAI Funding Concerns Sep 16, 2026
- AI-connected Asian stocks fell sharply following US tech leaders' call for pacing AI development, with SoftBank, Kioxia, SK Hynix, Minimax, and Z.ai down 5%+ (Reuters) Sep 14, 2026
- Sources: SoftBank sealed a two-year loan facility to support its OpenAI investment, securing $11.87B in commitments from ~20 banks, above its $10B target (Janice Huang/Bloomberg) Sep 13, 2026
- SoftBank Gets Upsized $11.9 Billion Loan in OpenAI Funding Push Sep 13, 2026