SoftBank has gone back to lenders with a $10bn loan proposal secured against its OpenAI stake, and this time it is offering to personally guarantee the debt, according to Reuters, which cited people familiar with the discussions. The concession gives banks recourse to SoftBank itself if the pledged OpenAI shares fall short of covering the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
SoftBank has reduced a loan secured by OpenAI shares from 10 to around 6 billion dollars. Lenders are apparently reluctant to reliably assess the value of an unlisted company like OpenAI. <br /> [...]
SoftBank's $6.5 billion acquisition of AI-chip designer Ampere is facing an in-depth US government probe that may delay the deal, according to Bloomberg. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has op [...]
Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, dismantling key pillars of exclusivity and revenue-sharing that bound the two co [...]
Summary: SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI shares at SOFR + 425 basis points (~7.88%), a two-year term with one-year extension. The loan sits atop a $40 billion bridge [...]
OpenAI will build and open AI infrastructure worth $500 billion in the United States over the next four years in partnership with SoftBank. The two entities have teamed up to establish a new company c [...]
HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Intesa Sanpaolo are among eight institutions that have submitted commitments as sub-underwriters, in one of the largest tests of creditor appetite for AI-linked debt. The $40 bi [...]
In case you need further evidence that companies involved in AI chip manufacturing are looking to give themselves whatever edge they can, SoftBank is adding to its institutional expertise by buying fo [...]
OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a stripped-down coding model engineered for near-instantaneous response times, marking the company's first significant inference partnership outsi [...]