{"id":996920,"date":"2026-03-07T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996920"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:44:03","slug":"40-billion-loan-softbank-seeks-record-financing-to-fund-openai-investment-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/07\/40-billion-loan-softbank-seeks-record-financing-to-fund-openai-investment-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"$40 billion loan: SoftBank seeks record financing to fund OpenAI investment \u2014 Here&#8217;s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank Group is in talks with multiple lenders for a record $40 billion loan, largely aimed at financing its investment in artificial intelligence leader OpenAI, according to a Bloomberg report citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-month tenure bridge loan would be SoftBank&#8217;s largest dollar-denominated borrowing yet, they said, adding that four banks, including JPMorgan Chase &amp; Company will be underwriting the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank Group is in talks with multiple lenders for a record $40 billion loan, largely aimed at financing its investment in artificial intelligence leader OpenAI, according to a Bloomberg report citing sources. The 12-month tenure bridge loan would be SoftBank&#8217;s largest dollar-denominated borrowing yet, they said, adding that four banks, including JPMorgan Chase &amp; Company will be underwriting the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996920","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}