SoftBank raises over $11B in bonds to finance its OpenAI investment
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-22
SoftBank issued more than $11 billion in bonds to fund its investment in OpenAI, deepening its leveraged bet on AI. The same roundup noted Anthropic and Accenture investing $2 billion in embedded safety evaluators working alongside model teams.
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