{"id":991983,"date":"2026-02-14T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991983"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:40:46","slug":"softbank-posts-fourth-straight-quarterly-profit-of-1-6-billion-on-openai-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/softbank-posts-fourth-straight-quarterly-profit-of-1-6-billion-on-openai-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank posts fourth straight quarterly profit of $1.6 billion on OpenAI gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group said on Thursday it logged a net profit of 248.6 billion yen ($1.62 billion) in the October-December quarter, boosted by the rising valuation of its investment \u200cin OpenAI. <\/p>\n<p>The results, \u2060which mark \u2060SoftBank&#8217;s fourth consecutive quarter in the black, compare to a net loss of 369 billion yen over the same period \u200bthe previous year. <\/p>\n<p>SoftBank&#8217;s earnings have been flattered by the rising valuation of its investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, even \u200bas investors question the risk of overexposure to a single firm in the red-hot artificial intelligence sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group said on Thursday it logged a net profit of 248.6 billion yen ($1.62 billion) in the October-December quarter, boosted by the rising valuation of its investment \u200cin OpenAI. The results, \u2060which mark \u2060SoftBank&#8217;s fourth consecutive quarter in the black, compare to a net loss of 369 billion yen over the same period \u200bthe previous year. SoftBank&#8217;s earnings have been flattered by the rising valuation of its investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, even \u200bas investors question the risk of overexposure to a single firm in the red-hot artificial intelligence 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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991983","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\/991983","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=991983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}