Softbank bond fuels rally, scams

Scholar power: 10.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 33%, Economics 25%, Computer science 25%, Law 17%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Iikka Korhonen	20%	25	10.0%

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57.0%

3.0 h

6

10.0%

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0.114

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Agathe Demarais

@agathedemarais.com

AI-fuelled tech sector now accounts for more than half of the S&P500 market capitalisation
• Hyperscalers are biggest bond issuers and major infrastructure projects are mostly data centres
• Even Treasuries are part of AI trade as extra power demand fuels inflation
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

September 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM

Reposted by Jože P. Damijan

14%

Scholar power: 14.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 33%, Economics 25%, Computer science 25%, Law 17%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Jože P. Damijan	27%	28	14.3%

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Scholar power

49.0%

12.8 h

97

14.3%

Ranking score

0.06

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Reposted by Avi Goldfarb, Adam S. Posen

33%

Scholar power: 33.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 33%, Economics 25%, Computer science 25%, Law 17%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Avi Goldfarb	27%	56	20.2%
🎓 Adam S. Posen	23%	33	13.2%
Total			33.4%

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45.0%

19.1 h

13

33.4%

Ranking score

0.036

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by Shannon Vallor Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog, Steve Peers

15%

Scholar power: 15.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 33%, Economics 25%, Computer science 25%, Law 17%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Shannon Vallor	6%	18	7.6%
🎓 Woodrow Hartzog	10%	21	4.6%
🎓 Steve Peers	6%	27	3.1%
Total			15.3%

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47.0%

23.6 h

194

15.3%

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0.029

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Shannon Vallor

@shannonvallor.bsky.social

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

September 24, 2026 at 2:25 PM

by Scott L. Greer

13%

Scholar power: 13.6%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 33%, Economics 25%, Computer science 25%, Law 17%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Scott L. Greer	7%	42	13.6%

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Scholar power

47.0%

6.0 h

1

13.6%

Ranking score

0.021

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Scott L Greer

@scottlgreer.bsky.social

“A group of people have tried to make the matter personal for Trump, emphasising to him that his bank accounts and family fortune could disappear overnight if advanced AI hacked the financial system.”

Maga base recoils as Donald Trump goes all-in on AI

US president’s Big Tech boosterism is alienating once-loyal supporters just weeks ahead of the midterms

www.ft.com

September 25, 2026 at 7:56 AM

Reposted by Greg Linden

15%

Scholar power: 15.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 33%, Economics 25%, Computer science 25%, Law 17%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Greg Linden	32%	23	15.3%

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Scholar power

50.0%

18.0 h

6

15.3%

Ranking score

0.018

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Financial Times

@financialtimes.com

SoftBank pays steep price for record bond sale to fund OpenAI bet ft.trib.al/9vmnT3b

SoftBank pays steep price for record bond sale to fund OpenAI bet

Masayoshi Son’s group pays yields of up to 9.75% to raise more than $11bn in the largest junk bond offering on record

ft.trib.al

September 24, 2026 at 7:57 PM

Reposted by Susan E. Rice

1%

Scholar power: 1.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 33%, Economics 25%, Computer science 25%, Law 17%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Susan E. Rice	11%	3	1.9%

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Scholar power

46.0%

22.6 h

1984

1.9%

Ranking score

0.01

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by Sam Illingworth

2%

Scholar power: 2.7%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 33%, Economics 25%, Computer science 25%, Law 17%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Sam Illingworth	2%	21	2.7%

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47.0%

19.7 h

1

2.7%

Ranking score

0.004

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Prof Sam Illingworth

@samillingworth.com

🏛️ What is 'sovereign AI', exactly?

Computer Weekly asks what we mean by 'sovereign AI', a phrase now heard in UK datacentre pitches.

🔗 computerweekly.com/opinion/What-do-we-mean-by-sovereign-AI

#SovereignAI #UKTech

What do we mean by sovereign AI? | Computer Weekly

Everyone, it seems, now wants "sovereign AI". The UK government has launched a £500m Sovereign AI fund to back British artificial intelligence (AI) startups. Cloud providers advertise it. Industry ana...

computerweekly.com

September 24, 2026 at 6:17 PM

by Jan Fuhse

2%

Scholar power: 2.6%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 33%, Economics 25%, Computer science 25%, Law 17%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Jan Fuhse	2%	19	2.6%

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Scholar power

47.0%

23.5 h

0

2.6%

Ranking score

0.003

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Jan Fuhse

@fuhsejan.bsky.social

What a gamble.

Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 1d

The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...