{"id":1027122,"date":"2026-08-07T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027122"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:30:10","slug":"intel-proves-its-worth-with-8-2-billion-softbank-boost-while-openai-gains-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/intel-proves-its-worth-with-8-2-billion-softbank-boost-while-openai-gains-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel proves its worth with $8.2 billion SoftBank boost while OpenAI gains pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group reported first-quarter profits that topped market expectations this week, driven by a massive $8.2 billion valuation gain on its stake in US chipmaker Intel. The surprise boost from Intel helped offset a quiet quarter for SoftBank\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) investments, where gains from ChatGPT maker OpenAI temporarily ground to a halt.According to CNBC, SoftBank reported a net profit of 347.3 billion Japanese yen (roughly $2.2 billion). While that figure represented an 18% decline year-over-year, it comfortably beat average analyst estimates of 120.23 billion yen.<\/p>\n<p>Intel investment delivers big payoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group reported first-quarter profits that topped market expectations this week, driven by a massive $8.2 billion valuation gain on its stake in US chipmaker Intel. The surprise boost from Intel helped offset a quiet quarter for SoftBank\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) investments, where gains from ChatGPT maker OpenAI temporarily ground to a halt.According to CNBC, SoftBank reported a net profit of 347.3 billion Japanese yen (roughly $2.2 billion). While that figure represented an 18% decline year-over-year, it comfortably beat average analyst estimates of 120.23 billion yen. Intel investment delivers big payoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027122","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027123,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027122\/revisions\/1027123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}