Oct 18, 2026 · 5 min · 7 segments
Bloomberg reported on October 16 that SoftBank is considering acquiring Allied Universal, the largest US security services company, at an equity value of up to $18 billion (about $30 billion including…
Bloomberg reported on October 16 that SoftBank is weighing a takeover of Allied Universal, the biggest security guard company in America.
Sam, SoftBank is the firm that pours money into AI, so why would it want a company full of people in uniforms? Because of the
uniforms.
Bloomberg sources say founder Masayoshi San is looking for places to put AI-powered robots to work.
And the plan with Allied is to eventually swap some of the guards for machines on certain tasks.
With Allied's debt included, the whole deal lands near $30 billion.
Hold on.
I've seen the security robots at the mall.
The ones that look like a rolling trash can and get stuck on curbs.
Nobody is trusting that thing with a building at three in the morning.
And Bloomberg's own reporting agrees with you, because humanoid guards are the part it says will take longest.
But look at what Sun is not doing, which is selling robots to the security industry.
He's buying the
industry instead.
The biggest piece of it.
Allied's own numbers say it has about 800,000 workers worldwide, and more than 400 of the Fortune 500 as clients.
Bloomberg reported on October 16 that SoftBank is weighing a takeover of Allied Universal, the biggest security guard company in America.
Sam, SoftBank is the firm that pours money into AI, so why would it want a company full of people in uniforms? Because of the
uniforms.
Bloomberg sources say founder Masayoshi San is looking for places to put AI-powered robots to work.
And the plan with Allied is to eventually swap some of the guards for machines on certain tasks.
With Allied's debt included, the whole deal lands near $30 billion.
Hold on.
I've seen the security robots at the mall.
The ones that look like a rolling trash can and get stuck on curbs.
Nobody is trusting that thing with a building at three in the morning.
And Bloomberg's own reporting agrees with you, because humanoid guards are the part it says will take longest.
But look at what Sun is not doing, which is selling robots to the security industry.
He's buying the
industry instead.
The biggest piece of it.
Allied's own numbers say it has about 800,000 workers worldwide, and more than 400 of the Fortune 500 as clients.
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