It’s legal because both sides have armies of lawyers and are voluntarily entering into contracts where each party gets consideration.

How someone can compare the above situation to a person getting a payday loan to put a roof over their head or food on their plate is beyond me.

The “it’s like <insert wild and inappropriate analogy to stoke emotion>” is a tired trope.

Come on, calling a round of vendor financing (which is what the NVIDIA money is) "funding" is eggregiously misleading. The only new money entering the sector from this is SoftBank's stake.

They might have dressed up the wording, but the details are all there for anyone who wants to objectively look at the deal. It is a group of two executives making a non coerced deal and disclosing the required information to investors.

Might be a stupid gamble, but it's not akin to a loan shark shaking down a hungry, cold person for life's essentials.