SoftBank Group swung to a quarterly profit, riding on gains from its bets on Nvidia and startups in a boon for founder Masayoshi Son’s bets on artificial intelligence technologies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/07/softbank-profit-ai-bet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #masayoshison #softbank #nvidia #tsmc
The jury’s still out on whether America can innovate enough to defend its technological hegemony. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/01/world/trumps-tech-policies-and-success-against-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #ai #us #artificialintelligence #meta #xai #softbank #chatgpt #openai #tech #bigtech #stargate
🫧 OpenAI Is Quietly Trying to Get More Money as It Burns Through Cash at a Staggering Pace
「 There's just one wrinkle: the funds roll out in two tranches, with $10 billion dispersed immediately, and $30 billion only available if OpenAI restructures to a for-profit company. If it doesn't, the Wall Street Journal reported back in March, SoftBank has the option to withhold $20 billion, cutting the historic funding round off at the knees 」

"- OpenAI and Anthropic both lose billions of dollars a year after revenue, and their stories do not mirror any other startup in history, not Uber, not Amazon Web Services, nothing. I address the Uber point in this article.
- SoftBank is putting itself in dire straits simply to fund OpenAI once. This deal threatens its credit rating, with SoftBank having to take on what will be multiple loans to fund the remaining $30 billion of OpenAI's $40 billion round, which has yet to close and OpenAI is, in fact, still raising.
- This is before you consider the other $19 billion that SoftBank has agreed to contribute to the Stargate data center project, money that it does not currently have available.
- OpenAI has promised $19 billion to the Stargate data center project, money it does not have and cannot get without SoftBank's funds.
- Again, neither SoftBank nor OpenAI has the money for Stargate right now.
- OpenAI must convert to a for-profit by the end of 2025, or it loses $20 billion of the remaining $30 billion of funding. If it does not convert by October 2026, its current funding converts to debt. It is demanding remarkable, unreasonable concessions from Microsoft, which is refusing to budge and is willing to walk away from the negotiations necessary to convert.
- OpenAI does not have a path to profitability, and its future, like Anthropic's, is dependent on a continual flow of capital from venture capitalists and big tech, who must also continue to expand infrastructure.
Anthropic is in a similar, but slightly better position — it is set to lose $3 billion this year on $4 billion of revenue. It also has no path to profitability, recently jacked up prices on Cursor, its largest customer, and had to put restraints on Claude Code after allowing users to burn 100% to 10,000% of their revenue. These are the actions of a desperate company."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#Anthropic#ChatGPT#Claude#AIBubble#AIHype#SoftBank#StarGate
"- OpenAI and Anthropic both lose billions of dollars a year after revenue, and their stories do not mirror any other startup in history, not Uber, not Amazon Web Services, nothing. I address the Uber point in this article.
- SoftBank is putting itself in dire straits simply to fund OpenAI once. This deal threatens its credit rating, with SoftBank having to take on what will be multiple loans to fund the remaining $30 billion of OpenAI's $40 billion round, which has yet to close and OpenAI is, in fact, still raising.
- This is before you consider the other $19 billion that SoftBank has agreed to contribute to the Stargate data center project, money that it does not currently have available.
- OpenAI has promised $19 billion to the Stargate data center project, money it does not have and cannot get without SoftBank's funds.
- Again, neither SoftBank nor OpenAI has the money for Stargate right now.
- OpenAI must convert to a for-profit by the end of 2025, or it loses $20 billion of the remaining $30 billion of funding. If it does not convert by October 2026, its current funding converts to debt. It is demanding remarkable, unreasonable concessions from Microsoft, which is refusing to budge and is willing to walk away from the negotiations necessary to convert.
- OpenAI does not have a path to profitability, and its future, like Anthropic's, is dependent on a continual flow of capital from venture capitalists and big tech, who must also continue to expand infrastructure.
Anthropic is in a similar, but slightly better position — it is set to lose $3 billion this year on $4 billion of revenue. It also has no path to profitability, recently jacked up prices on Cursor, its largest customer, and had to put restraints on Claude Code after allowing users to burn 100% to 10,000% of their revenue. These are the actions of a desperate company."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#Anthropic#ChatGPT#Claude#AIBubble#AIHype#SoftBank#StarGate
Mizuho Financial Group said Friday that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with SoftBank to introduce cutting-edge artificial intelligence to streamline operations and improve customer service. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/18/tech/mizuho-ai-partner-softbank/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #softbank #mizuho #tech #ai
Debt bankers and investors are bracing for what is shaping up to be the next big trend in the global credit market: Japan Inc. raising billions abroad, with a string of recent megadeals setting the tone. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/17/companies/japan-firms-credit-sales-overseas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #debt #bonds #ntt #softbank #nissan #japaneseeconomy
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son and OpenAI chief Sam Altman see insatiable demand for AI that makes it imperative to keep building ever more computing capacity. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/16/companies/masayoshi-son-sam-altman-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #openai #ai #tech
SoftBank Group’s acquisition of semiconductor designer Ampere Computing is facing a potentially lengthy probe by the U.S. government. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/02/companies/softbank-ampere-ftc/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #amperecomputing #us #softbank #acquisitions #ftc
A key unit of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group is offering $1 billion of dollar bonds in the unit’s first US high-grade deal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/01/companies/softbank-dollar-bond/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #bonds #dollar #ai
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son acknowledged the outlines of a succession plan, addressing what may be the single biggest concern among investors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/27/companies/softbank-masayoshi-son-succession-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #masayoshison #softbank #ai #tech #investments
A startup building massive, bullet-shaped helium balloons that float in the stratosphere has raised $15 million from SoftBank. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/26/companies/softbank-backs-floating-climate-station-startup/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #investments #sceye #startups #climatechange
The SoftBank founder has a long-shot ambition to create an AI robot hub in the U.S. desert. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/24/japan/magical-thinking-of-masa-son/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #softbank #masayoshison #openai #arizona #us #robots #ai