{"id":977711,"date":"2025-12-02T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977711"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:17:36","slug":"softbanks-masayashi-son-cried-about-nvidia-stake-sale-to-fund-ai-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/02\/softbanks-masayashi-son-cried-about-nvidia-stake-sale-to-fund-ai-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank\u2019s Masayashi Son \u2018cried\u2019 about Nvidia stake sale to fund AI bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said he wouldn\u2019t have sold off Nvidia Corp. shares if his company had unlimited money to bankroll its next investments in artificial intelligence, which include a big bet on OpenAI. <\/p>\n<p>Son, addressing for the first time the surprise November disclosure that SoftBank had unloaded its entire stake in the world\u2019s most valuable company, also slammed talk of an AI investment bubble. The Japanese company simply needed to raise capital to fund projects including data center construction, he told a forum in Tokyo Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said he wouldn\u2019t have sold off Nvidia Corp. shares if his company had unlimited money to bankroll its next investments in artificial intelligence, which include a big bet on OpenAI. Son, addressing for the first time the surprise November disclosure that SoftBank had unloaded its entire stake in the world\u2019s most valuable company, also slammed talk of an AI investment bubble. The Japanese company simply needed to raise capital to fund projects including data center construction, he told a forum in Tokyo Monday.<\/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-977711","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\/977711","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=977711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}