{"id":1038494,"date":"2026-09-25T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038494"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:36:25","slug":"softbanks-growing-bets-on-ai-and-semiconductor-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/softbanks-growing-bets-on-ai-and-semiconductor-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank&#8217;s growing bets on AI and semiconductor assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group has raised $11.1 billion in the largest high-yield corporate bond sale globally on record to fund its investments in OpenAI and other artificial intelligence-related companies and infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>Founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is aiming to establish SoftBank as the world&#8217;s leading AI platform with investments across the semiconductor supply chain, data centres, large language model development and robotics. <\/p>\n<p>Below are major AI investments that SoftBank has unveiled so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group has raised $11.1 billion in the largest high-yield corporate bond sale globally on record to fund its investments in OpenAI and other artificial intelligence-related companies and infrastructure. Founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is aiming to establish SoftBank as the world&#8217;s leading AI platform with investments across the semiconductor supply chain, data centres, large language model development and robotics. Below are major AI investments that SoftBank has unveiled so far.<\/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-1038494","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\/1038494","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=1038494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038495,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038494\/revisions\/1038495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}