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Japanese conglomerate and investment holding company that runs the Vision Fund and holds major stakes in OpenAI and other AI and tech firms.
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Masayoshi Son, whose SoftBank is projected to commit $65 billion to OpenAI, is now voicing concern about AI safety risks, according to Bloomberg. Holders now have to judge whether the warning changes the money, since the stock has so far traded on what the labs say.
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SoftBank sold $11.1 billion of high-yield bonds, a record by CNBC's count, to pay the final $10 billion of its $30 billion OpenAI commitment. The debt sits with a BB+ borrower, so credit conditions reach OpenAI's money through one investor's balance sheet.
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SoftBank paid the last $10 billion of its OpenAI commitment on October 1, taking its total to $64.6 billion for about 13% of the company. It funded the payment with new senior notes, so a stake worth roughly $110 billion at February's price is now carried on bond debt.
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Low-rated companies have raised $88 billion for AI deals this year, Goldman Sachs figures show, and lenders now check revenue before they lend. Credit goes first to borrowers with long contracts and hard assets, so a small AI vendor's cost of debt shows buyers how lenders rate its staying power.
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Oracle issued a force majeure notice on Blue Owl's Jupiter campus, whose reported $18bn of bank loans already trade below 90 cents on the dollar. Lenders who priced Oracle's credit now also have to price who pays when the power arrives late.
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SoftBank is marketing junk bonds at yields up to 9.875% to raise more than $11 billion toward nearly $65 billion of OpenAI commitments. The yields are the company's highest ever at those maturities, and high-yield buyers are still competing to lend at them.
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Memorandums with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR carry no terms or timetable, and NVIDIA has reserved an option to backstop up to $125 billion of the deals.
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Dario Amodei asked AI labs to slow down and the selling landed on memory makers and chip-equipment names, with software rallying against them. Oil near $108 and an 86 percent chance of a Fed hike sat in the same session.
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Ten billion dollars of notes plus a billion in euros price around September 24 to fund a commitment approaching $65bn. The 13% stake SoftBank is targeting implies a valuation well below the $730bn cited.
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SoftBank Group set terms on about $11.1 billion of senior notes in five dollar and euro tranches due 2030 to 2034. Nearly 90% is in dollars, placed with a narrow institutional pool at coupons the release text does not show.
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More than $20 billion of orders came in against an $11 billion target. The yields that pulled them in sit 2.20 percentage points above the BB-zone dollar average and 25 basis points above the B- average.
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The Fed's first increase since July 2023 was 25 basis points. Korea's five-year AA- corporate yields are up 110 basis points this year, and the share of new paper maturing inside three years jumped from 24.7% in August.
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Alibaba says the Zhenwu V900 trebles the performance of its previous accelerator and can run in clusters of up to 500,000 units. The supply question behind those clusters went unanswered at the launch.
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The $10bn SoftBank owes OpenAI on 1 October is the exact size of the dollar leg of the bond it prices on 24 September. Yields on its 2031 paper have moved from 6.7% in January to about 8.2% in September.
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SoftBank's $450m top-up lifts a bank facility to $6.5bn and buys another year in which it can draw, at 210 basis points over SOFR. More than 20 lenders share it, and it is the smallest number the group signed this week.
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Dario Amodei's slowdown essay and Sam Altman's remark that a listing would be ill-advised took ASML down 6%, about EUR 33.6 billion of market value, while Nvidia fell 2.5% and TSMC 1.2%. The drops grew with distance from current revenue.
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Dario Amodei's call to slow AI development sold off the chipmakers on Monday and hit an OpenAI shareholder harder still, while analysts said the models already serving customers will keep serving them.
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Altman said AI progress should be slower than it otherwise could be because safety cases and monitoring have significant costs, and Monday's selling in Tokyo and Seoul was the first attempt to work out who pays for that.
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Altman says OpenAI will begin writing safety cases before frontier training runs without waiting for legislation or an antitrust waiver, and he wants every other frontier lab measured against the same duty.
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Totan Research puts a Bank of Japan hike at 93%, which turns the repricing of yen-funded AI positions from a threat into a date, and the 176 basis points between Tokyo and Washington is what the trade has to cover.
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