Entity

Softbank

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 18 coverage verticals, including Japan, South Korea and Indonesia.

As of 10 Nov 2026Last evidence 9 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Grab, SoftBank, Petros plan US$1.9 billion initial investment in Malaysia AI infrastructure

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • SoftBank acquisition of ABB robot unit blocked by China regulator that opposed Meta’s Manus deal: FT

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

All 2 events and claims involving Softbank

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 27 mentions on 10 Nov 2026, against 14 on 20 Oct 2026 (+93%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 4 Nov 2026.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 9 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

377 documents · 104 publishers · 9% say something specific about it · last evidence 9 Nov 2026

  • Gap: 9% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Softbank

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AIOpenAIJapanNvidiaChinaNasdaqWall StreetSouth Korea
  • AI · 287 shared documents
  • OpenAI · 171 shared documents
  • Japan · 132 shared documents
  • Nvidia · 132 shared documents
  • China · 104 shared documents
  • Nasdaq · 90 shared documents
  • Wall Street · 88 shared documents
  • AI infrastructure · 82 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • South Korea · 81 shared documents
  • Semiconductor · 77 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 27 mentions on 10 Nov 2026 with 14 on 20 Oct 2026 (+93%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +575% from 26 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, between 3 and 32 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Softbank, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

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For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/e96dac36642b1aacdd14a525 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name softbank.

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Events involving Softbank

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Grab, SoftBank, Petros plan US$1.9 billion initial investment in Malaysia AI infrastructure

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • SoftBank acquisition of ABB robot unit blocked by China regulator that opposed Meta’s Manus deal: FT

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Softbank

Entity.

Evidence
377 documents · 104 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 12 May 2026, last seen 9 Nov 2026
Measured
9% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
10 Nov 2026
12 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (2)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Softbank, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 4 Nov 2026.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 10 Nov 2026.