November 9 – SoftBank is scheduled to release its quarterly earnings on Tuesday. With AI-related stocks facing a selloff and its acquisition of ABB's robotics business hitting setbacks, investors are closely watching whether the company can offer convincing explanations about its strategic direction. SoftBank has poured substantial resources into AI, most notably spending $64.6 billion to acquire a 13% stake in OpenAI, which has raised questions about its ability to weather industry downturns. Rolf Bulk of Futurum Group observed that questions about infrastructure construction, funding, power supply, and deployment locations—once easy to answer six months ago—have now become far more complicated. The health of the AI industry is critical to SoftBank, given that its investments span AI models, data centers, semiconductors, and robotics. As of the end of June, SoftBank's net interest-bearing debt stood at 10.8 trillion yen (approximately $68 billion), up from 6.6 trillion yen a year earlier.