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Mateusz Kaczmarek

A technology and finance expert writing for TS2.tech. He analyzes developments in satellites, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on their impact on global markets. Author of industry reports and market commentary, often cited in tech and business media. Passionate about innovation and the digital economy.

IREN Stock Skyrockets 500% as Bitcoin Miner Reinvents Itself as AI Cloud Powerhouse

IREN Stock Skyrockets 500% as Bitcoin Miner Reinvents Itself as AI Cloud Powerhouse

Business Model & Industry IREN began as Iris Energy, a clean-energy Bitcoin miner, and has pivoted sharply into data centers for AI/HPC workloads. Its model is vertically integrated: it owns land, power contracts, and facilities (Canada, Texas) all run on 100% renewable hydro and wind power ts2.tech. This “green” setup gave IREN some of the lowest mining costs in the industry (around $0.03–$0.038 per kWh) ts2.tech ts2.tech. By mid-2024 it had ~20 EH/s of hashpower, making it a top-tier miner. Starting in 2024, management began aggressively re-purposing idle capacity to AI computing ts2.tech. In August 2025 it became an Nvidia “Preferred
10 October 2025
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Lyft Stock Rockets 30% After Waymo Robotaxi Deal — What’s Next?

Lyft Stock Rockets 30% After Waymo Robotaxi Deal — What’s Next?

Chart: Lyft Inc. (LYFT) share price (1-year). The stock jumped sharply in mid-September (after the Waymo news) and has since pulled back into early October. The 50-day moving average (dotted) remains well above the 200-day (solid), indicating overall bullish momentum directorstalkinterviews.com. Stock Performance and Chart Lyft’s share price has shown volatile swings in late 2025. In September, LYFT rallied sharply – fuelled by positive news – but in early October it gave back much of that gain. On Sept 17 (when the Waymo partnership was announced), LYFT jumped over 13%. By Oct 9 the stock closed ~$19.72 stockanalysis.com. The 1-year
10 October 2025
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Precious Metals Mania: Gold Smashes $4,000, Silver Soars Past $50 – What’s Driving the Frenzy?

Precious Metals Mania: Gold Smashes $4,000, Silver Soars Past $50 – What’s Driving the Frenzy?

Record-Breaking Gold and Silver Prices Gold’s latest high (~$4,059/oz on Oct 8) shattered the previous record and caps a nearly 50% rally year-to-date reuters.com ts2.tech. (Gold began 2025 in the high $2,700s.) Silver’s spike is even more dramatic: after languishing in the low $30s at the start of the year, it rocketed above $50 — briefly touching $51.22 — in mid-October reuters.com ts2.tech. That represents well over a 70% gain in 2025 for silver, significantly outpacing gold. To put this in perspective: silver’s run has re-tightened the gold/silver ratio (ounces of silver per ounce of gold) to historically low levels
10 October 2025
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Quantum-Powered Pop! SEALSQ Corp (LAES) Stock Rockets on Latest Breakthroughs and Deals

Quantum-Powered Pop! SEALSQ Corp (LAES) Stock Rockets on Latest Breakthroughs and Deals

Recent Surge: LAES stock closed at $6.09 on Oct. 9, 2025, up 39.7% that day stockanalysis.com. Its market capitalization is roughly $970 million tradingview.com after this jump. (It had been around $4–5 per share just a week earlier.) Stock Price Performance (as of Oct 10, 2025) LAES stock has surged dramatically in early October 2025. After trading around $4–5 in late Sept, shares jumped 27% over four trading days through Oct 4 ts2.tech. The rally continued: on Oct 6 it opened near $5.03 (closing 8.4% up) stockanalysis.com, dipped briefly Oct 7–8, and then spiked 39.7% on Oct 9 to $6.09
10 October 2025
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NUAI Stock Skyrockets: Tiny Permian Data Center Bet Surges 84% on AI Hype

NUAI Stock Skyrockets: Tiny Permian Data Center Bet Surges 84% on AI Hype

Company Background & Strategy New Era Energy & Digital, Inc. (formerly New Era Helium) is a Midland, TX–based developer of “next-generation digital infrastructure and integrated power assets” businesswire.com. In August 2025 it rebranded to emphasize its pivot from helium extraction to AI data centers ts2.tech. The core strategy is to vertically integrate power and compute: it owns Permian Basin land and gas resources to power a proposed AI/ML data center campus. The flagship venture is Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC), a 50/50 JV with Sharon AI. TCDC is designing a campus of ~438 contiguous acres (expanding to 1+ GW) dedicated
10 October 2025
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AI Data-Center Gold Rush: Applied Digital Rockets on $11B Contracts and Blows Past Q1 Forecasts

AI Data-Center Gold Rush: Applied Digital Rockets on $11B Contracts and Blows Past Q1 Forecasts

Overview: Dallas-based Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) designs and operates high-performance data centers and cloud colocation – recently pivoting from crypto-mining hosting to AI and HPC (high-performance computing) workloads ts2.tech. Its flagship Polaris Forge campus in North Dakota was even named “Best Data Center in the Americas 2025” by Datacloud ts2.tech. In an AI-driven cloud boom, demand for such specialized capacity is running far ahead of supply, giving APLD a unique niche reuters.com ts2.tech. Q1 Results (Aug 31, 2025): Applied Digital’s Q1 (fiscal) was nothing short of a breakout quarter. Revenues jumped 84% YoY to $64.2 million stocktitan.net, thanks largely to tenant
10 October 2025
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Sam’s Club Shocker: Warehouse Giant Extends Sunday Hours – Members Thrilled as Shopping Windows Expand

Sam’s Club Shocker: Warehouse Giant Extends Sunday Hours – Members Thrilled as Shopping Windows Expand

Why the Change Now Sam’s Club says members “overwhelmingly” asked for longer weekend hours economictimes.indiatimes.com. In practice, extending Sunday hours helps spread out crowds and gives big-shopping members more flexibility. Plus members keep their 8–9 am head start, preserving that perk for a higher fee tier economictimes.indiatimes.com. The move also simplifies scheduling: most clubs will now run 8 am–8 pm every day (except a few local exceptions) economictimes.indiatimes.com. Walmart spokesman Steven Zapata confirmed to reporters that customer feedback prompted this shift economictimes.indiatimes.com. Analysts see this as a savvy member-driven strategy. A TechSpace2 analysis notes warehouse clubs are gaining share amid retail headwinds, with
10 October 2025
Gold’s Jaw-Dropping $4,000 Rally: Bubble Alert or Ultimate Safe-Haven?

Gold’s Jaw-Dropping $4,000 Rally: Bubble Alert or Ultimate Safe-Haven?

Why Investors Are Flocking to Gold On Oct. 6–8, gold ran through its all-time highs. Spot gold briefly hit about $4,078/oz (intraday) on Oct. 8 ts2.tech, after closing ~2% higher on Oct. 7 ts2.tech. As one Reuters report noted, gold’s surge was driven by growing uncertainty: “investors are seeking safety from mounting economic and geopolitical uncertainty, alongside expectations of further Fed rate cuts” reuters.com. In Asia, a plunge in the Japanese yen (after an election of a dovish finance minister) left one less currency safe haven, “and gold was able to capitalise,” said Tim Waterer of KCM Trade ts2.tech. Meanwhile
10 October 2025
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BULLISH BREAKOUT: Google’s $3B Backstop Rockets TeraWulf (WULF) Stock to Multi-Year High

BULLISH BREAKOUT: Google’s $3B Backstop Rockets TeraWulf (WULF) Stock to Multi-Year High

Recent Developments Google-Backed AI Deals: In mid-August 2025 TeraWulf unveiled two 10-year co-location agreements with Fluidstack for AI workloads investors.terawulf.com investors.terawulf.com. These contracts (200+ MW at Lake Mariner) anchor ~$3.7 B of initial revenue (up to $8.7 B with extensions) investors.terawulf.com. Google Inc. agreed to backstop $1.8 B of Fluidstack’s lease obligations and took warrants for ~41 M shares (~8% equity) investors.terawulf.com. Shortly after, Google deepened its commitment: on Aug.18 it provided an additional $1.4 B backstop, gaining warrants for ~32.5 M more shares (bringing its total commitment to $3.2 B and stake to 14%) ts2.tech bitget.com. The new funding secures project debt financing for the CB-5
9 October 2025
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Snowflake Stock Rockets to Record High on AI Surge – Can $300 Targets Be Next?

Snowflake Stock Rockets to Record High on AI Surge – Can $300 Targets Be Next?

Snowflake’s shares have been on a tear through late 2025. After soaring on its strong Q2 report, SNOW traded near $247 on Oct 9 – close to its year‑high ts2.tech. That represents triple‑digit gains versus a year ago ts2.tech. The uptrend is driven by accelerating revenue growth and the cloud/AI hype cycle. Technically, the stock is extended (above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages around $216 and $197 marketbeat.com) but momentum remains strong. In the near term, investors will watch whether SNOW can sustain this pace or needs to consolidate around $250. On the fundamental side, Snowflake’s Q2 results underscore
9 October 2025
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Bitfarms Stock Explodes on Crypto & AI Boom – 148% YTD Rally

Bitfarms Stock Explodes on Crypto & AI Boom – 148% YTD Rally

Business Model and Operations Bitfarms is a “vertically integrated” Bitcoin miner: it builds, owns and operates its mining farms end-to-end investor.bitfarms.com. The company operates about 13 data centers (10 owned farms plus hosting agreements) across four countries investor.bitfarms.com. These facilities house thousands of ASIC miners powered mostly by hydro-electric and other long-term renewable contracts – Bitfarms boasts 82–90% renewable energy use investor.bitfarms.com ainvest.com. In-house teams handle electrical engineering, installation, and repairs investor.bitfarms.com. As of mid-2025, Bitfarms had ~17–19 EH/s of operational hashing capacity (after acquiring Stronghold Digital Mining, which added ~1 GW of U.S. projects cantechletter.com). This makes it one of North
9 October 2025
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AtlasClear (ATCH) Stock Skyrockets 50% on $20M Financing – Fintech Underdog Poised to Soar?

AtlasClear (ATCH) Stock Skyrockets 50% on $20M Financing – Fintech Underdog Poised to Soar?

Business Model & Market Position AtlasClear is a niche B2B fintech aiming to offer a one-stop clearing, brokerage and banking platform for smaller financial firms. According to the company, it is “building a cutting-edge, technology-enabled financial services platform to modernize trading, clearing, settlement and banking” globenewswire.com. Through its subsidiary Wilson-Davis & Co. (a full-service broker-dealer since 1968) AtlasClear provides correspondent clearing and trade execution. Management’s strategy is to expand this platform organically and via acquisitions: for example, it plans to acquire Commercial Bancorp of Wyoming (Farmers State Bank), a Federal Reserve member bank streetinsider.com, to gain FDIC/banking capabilities. The combined
9 October 2025
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Stock Market Today

Amazon’s $200B AI Spending Jolt Spurs Stock Selloff as Big Tech Capex Nears $650B

Amazon’s $200B AI Spending Jolt Spurs Stock Selloff as Big Tech Capex Nears $650B

7 February 2026
Amazon shares fell Friday after the company announced a $200 billion AI infrastructure plan for 2026, exceeding analyst expectations and reviving investor concerns about profitability. Combined 2026 capex flagged by Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta now tops $630 billion. Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom shares surged on the news, while software and data firms remained under pressure.
Nvidia stock jumps nearly 8% as Big Tech AI spending bets lift chipmakers and Dow tops 50,000

Nvidia stock jumps nearly 8% as Big Tech AI spending bets lift chipmakers and Dow tops 50,000

7 February 2026
Nvidia surged 7.8% Friday, leading a chip stock rally that pushed the Dow above 50,000 for the first time. The PHLX semiconductor index gained 5.7% as Advanced Micro Devices rose 8.3% and Broadcom 7.1%. Amazon fell 5.6% after projecting $200 billion in 2026 capital spending. Investors weighed a $600 billion AI infrastructure outlay against sharp losses in software shares.
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