{"id":1018587,"date":"2026-07-03T08:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018587"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:40:26","slug":"softbank-renews-talks-for-10-billion-loan-against-openai-stake-adds-concessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/03\/softbank-renews-talks-for-10-billion-loan-against-openai-stake-adds-concessions\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank renews talks for $10 billion loan against OpenAI stake, adds concessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 1 &#8211; SoftBank Group has reopened talks with a consortium of lenders for a $10 billion loan backed by its stake \u200bin OpenAI, after earlier attempts to secure a \u200bloan stalled over concerns about the difficulty of valuing private companies, two people familiar with \u200bthe matter said. <\/p>\n<p>To make lenders more comfortable, the Japanese technology investor is offering to guarantee repayment of the loan, giving banks recourse to SoftBank if the OpenAI shares pledged as collateral lose value, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 1 &#8211; SoftBank Group has reopened talks with a consortium of lenders for a $10 billion loan backed by its stake \u200bin OpenAI, after earlier attempts to secure a \u200bloan stalled over concerns about the difficulty of valuing private companies, two people familiar with \u200bthe matter said. To make lenders more comfortable, the Japanese technology investor is offering to guarantee repayment of the loan, giving banks recourse to SoftBank if the OpenAI shares pledged as collateral lose value, the people 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-1018587","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\/1018587","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=1018587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018612,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018587\/revisions\/1018612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}