{"id":991917,"date":"2026-02-14T08:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991917"},"modified":"2026-02-14T08:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:17:58","slug":"softbank-posts-fourth-straight-quarterly-profit-on-openai-investment-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/softbank-posts-fourth-straight-quarterly-profit-on-openai-investment-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank posts fourth straight quarterly profit on OpenAI investment gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group booked a fourth consecutive quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by the rising valuation of its OpenAI investment and took on more debt as it deepened its exposure to the red-hot artificial intelligence sector. <\/p>\n<p>SoftBank reported a net profit of 248.6 billion yen ($1.62 billion) \u200cin the October-December \u2060quarter, \u2060compared with a net loss of 369 billion yen over the same period the previous year. <\/p>\n<p>The technology and investing conglomerate&#8217;s earnings have been flattered by the rising valuation of its investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, even as the market questions the risk of overexposure to a single firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group booked a fourth consecutive quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by the rising valuation of its OpenAI investment and took on more debt as it deepened its exposure to the red-hot artificial intelligence sector. SoftBank reported a net profit of 248.6 billion yen ($1.62 billion) \u200cin the October-December \u2060quarter, \u2060compared with a net loss of 369 billion yen over the same period the previous year. The technology and investing conglomerate&#8217;s earnings have been flattered by the rising valuation of its investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, even as the market questions the risk of overexposure to a single firm.<\/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-991917","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\/991917","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=991917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}