{"id":1004726,"date":"2026-04-25T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004726"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:45:21","slug":"softbank-seeks-10-billion-margin-loan-backed-by-openai-shares-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/softbank-seeks-10-billion-margin-loan-backed-by-openai-shares-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank seeks $10 billion margin loan backed by OpenAI shares: Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group is seeking a $10 billion loan secured by its shares in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as it takes on \u200cmore debt \u2060for \u2060its push into AI, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing sources. <\/p>\n<p>The loan underscores the Japanese investment conglomerate&#8217;s increasingly aggressive bet on artificial intelligence, following years in which SoftBank swung between outsized \u2060gains and heavy \u200closses in its Vision Fund. <\/p>\n<p>The two-year margin loan would \u2060carry an option for SoftBank to extend the borrowing by an additional year, the report said.<\/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 \u200cmore debt \u2060for \u2060its push into AI, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing sources. The loan underscores the Japanese investment conglomerate&#8217;s increasingly aggressive bet on artificial intelligence, following years in which SoftBank swung between outsized \u2060gains and heavy \u200closses in its Vision Fund. The two-year margin loan would \u2060carry an option for SoftBank to extend the borrowing by an additional year, the report said.<\/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-1004726","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\/1004726","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=1004726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004748,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004726\/revisions\/1004748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}