{"id":1004455,"date":"2026-04-23T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004455"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:15:45","slug":"softbank-seeks-10-billion-margin-loan-backed-by-openai-shares-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/softbank-seeks-10-billion-margin-loan-backed-by-openai-shares-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank seeks $10 billion margin loan backed by OpenAI shares: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group is seeking a $10 billion loan secured by its shares in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as it takes on more debt for its push into AI, \u200cBloomberg News \u2060reported \u2060on Wednesday, citing sources. <\/p>\n<p>The loan underscores the \u200bJapanese investment conglomerate&#8217;s increasingly aggressive bet on \u200bartificial intelligence, following years in which SoftBank swung between outsized gains and \u200bheavy losses in \u2060its Vision \u200cFund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group is seeking a $10 billion loan secured by its shares in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as it takes on more debt for its push into AI, \u200cBloomberg News \u2060reported \u2060on Wednesday, citing sources. The loan underscores the \u200bJapanese investment conglomerate&#8217;s increasingly aggressive bet on \u200bartificial intelligence, following years in which SoftBank swung between outsized gains and \u200bheavy losses in \u2060its Vision \u200cFund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}