Softbank bond fuels rally, scams

Scholar power: 10.0%

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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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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

Le Monde

Investors' feeding frenzy to finance the colossal AI investments generates real unease

The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, OpenAI's top financier, issued on Thursday an 11-billion-dollar bond, the largest ever issued by a junk-rated issuer, says Isabelle Chaperon, a columnist in Le Monde's Economics section.

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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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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

Handelsblatt

Investing: Experts expect a robot rally on the stock market – These stocks analysts are already recommending

AI is leaving data centers and entering the real world. Robots learn, see, and act—but the stock market’s winners may be somewhere else entirely.

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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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49.0%

13.7 h

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14.3%

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0.06

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Reposted by Greg Linden

15%

Scholar power: 15.3%

Story's scientific field profile

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

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🎓 Greg Linden	32%	23	15.3%

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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 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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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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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

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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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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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-...

The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

www.wsj.com

September 24, 2026 at 2:28 PM

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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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

Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Juan Moreno‐Cruz

14%

Scholar power: 14.4%

Story's scientific field profile

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

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham	17%	30	9.3%
🎓 Juan Moreno‐Cruz	10%	26	5.1%
Total			14.4%

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53.0%

25.1 h

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0.014

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Tania Babina

@taniababina.bsky.social

New data and new paper! The new AI investments data introduce 7 AI subtechnology categories: general AI, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, generative AI, agentic AI, and other AI, and builds firm-level AI panels through 2024. Links in comments.

September 24, 2026 at 1:41 PM

Reposted by Stephen A. Meserve

2%

Scholar power: 2.3%

Story's scientific field profile

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

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Stephen A. Meserve	8%	8	2.3%

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0.004

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Anthony DeBarros

@anthonydb.bsky.social

My @wsj.com colleagues put AI-related spending in context with America's earlier large infrastructure buildouts. It's massive. (Gift link.)

www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

www.wsj.com

September 24, 2026 at 1:05 PM

Reposted by David Murakami Wood

2%

Scholar power: 2.0%

Story's scientific field profile

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

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 David Murakami Wood	4%	24	2.0%

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Justin Mikulka

@justinmikulka.bsky.social

Place your bets!

"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."

graph showing private construction spending in the US falling by 10% while data center construction continues to climb.

September 24, 2026 at 1:05 PM

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