{"id":910615,"date":"2025-03-03T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=910615"},"modified":"2025-03-03T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:09:42","slug":"softbank-group-ceo-in-talks-to-borrow-16-billion-to-invest-in-ai-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/03\/softbank-group-ceo-in-talks-to-borrow-16-billion-to-invest-in-ai-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Group CEO in talks to borrow $16 billion to invest in AI: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son plans to borrow $16 billion to invest in AI, the company&#8217;s executives told banks last week, The Information tech news website reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The Japanese technology investor might borrow another $8 billion in early 2026, the report added. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported in January that SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to expand into the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son plans to borrow $16 billion to invest in AI, the company&#8217;s executives told banks last week, The Information tech news website reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Japanese technology investor might borrow another $8 billion in early 2026, the report added. Reuters reported in January that SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to expand into the sector.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910615","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=910615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}