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SoftBank seeks $100 billion from Gulf investors for AI

Rank
Running: 24h
Updated: 18h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 9
Regions: 4
Countries: 8
Languages: 3

Financial Times United Kingdom · English 9 Oct, 04:30 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

Read it also in Русский (2) · +1 language

Read at Financial Times

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Financial Times, 9 Oct, 04:30 UTC.
Second country: United States, with Bloomberg.
Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 9 Oct, 04:30 UTC.
Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

34%33%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 34%
Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
International 1 outlet · 11%

First movers

Financial Times 9 Oct, 04:30 UTC
Bloomberg +14m
CNA +18m
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed +2h 6m
Interfax +2h 14m

Latest arrivals

Sky News Arabia 9 Oct, 10:18 UTC
The Japan Times 9 Oct, 08:37 UTC
Kommersant 9 Oct, 08:01 UTC
Business Recorder 9 Oct, 06:46 UTC
Interfax 9 Oct, 06:44 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 8 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 1 state-owned, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 3: Japan, Pakistan, Singapore. Europe 2: Russia, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, English, Russian.
Timeline: Earliest article Financial Times, 9 Oct 2026, 04:30 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 04:40 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.30, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

9 Oct 2026 86 6.91 9 8 9 8 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 04:40 UTC · Updated 10:18 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 9 Oct, 10:18 UTC
سوفت بنك تستهدف تمويلاً ضخماً بقيمة 100 مليار دولار
The Japan Times Japan 9 Oct, 08:37 UTC
SoftBank seeks $100 billion from Gulf states for AI, FT says
Kommersant Russia 9 Oct, 08:01 UTC
FT: SoftBank планирует привлечь $100 млрд у инвесторов с Ближнего Востока на ИИ
Business Recorder Pakistan 9 Oct, 06:46 UTC
SoftBank seeks up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for AI push, FT reports
Interfax Russia 9 Oct, 06:44 UTC
SoftBank планирует привлечь от ближневосточных партнеров до $100 млрд на инвестиции в ИИ
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed International 9 Oct, 06:35 UTC
"سوفت بنك" تسعى لجمع 100 مليار دولار من مستثمرين خليجيين
CNA Singapore 9 Oct, 04:47 UTC
Softbank seeks $100 billion from Gulf investors, FT reports
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- SoftBank seeks up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for AI push, FT reports 9 Oct, 04:47 UTC
Bloomberg United States 9 Oct, 04:43 UTC
SoftBank Seeks $100 Billion From Gulf Investors for AI, FT Says
Financial Times United Kingdom 9 Oct, 04:30 UTC
SoftBank seeks $100bn from Gulf investors to expand AI bet