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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.

Silver Near $50 – Is a New Record Imminent? Inside 2025’s Soaring Silver Surge

Silver Near $50 – Is a New Record Imminent? Inside 2025’s Soaring Silver Surge

Silver Soars to 14-Year Highs, Closing in on Record Levels Silver’s price has exploded upward in 2025, putting the vaunted $50 per ounce milestone within sight. As of October 8, 2025, spot silver trades around $48.8/oz investing.com – territory not seen since 2011. Just days earlier it touched $47.8, the loftiest price in over 14 years ts2.tech. This puts silver only a few percentage points below its all-time nominal high of ~$49.50 (set in April 2011) ts2.tech. The metal’s ascent this year has been stunning: silver is up roughly 60–65% year-to-date investing.com, after starting 2025 in the low $30s. By
8 October 2025
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OpenAI’s AMD Mega-Deal Sparks an AI “Mega-Blob” – 6GW of Chips, a 10% Stake, and a $100B Bet

OpenAI’s AMD Mega-Deal Sparks an AI “Mega-Blob” – 6GW of Chips, a 10% Stake, and a $100B Bet

A $100 Billion+ Chip Deal: OpenAI’s Bet on 6 GW of AMD GPUs OpenAI’s new partnership with AMD, announced on October 6, 2025, is staggering in scope – even by the outsized standards of the AI industry. OpenAI will buy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct data center GPUs over the next several years ts2.tech. To put that in perspective, 6 GW of computing is on the order of hundreds of thousands of high-end chips, enough to fill multiple giant data centers devoted entirely to artificial intelligence workloads ts2.tech. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, said AMD will be a “core strategic compute partner” providing the massive
8 October 2025
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Turkey’s Gas Revolution: Erdogan’s LNG Pivot Threatens Russia & Iran’s Energy Grip

Turkey’s Gas Revolution: Erdogan’s LNG Pivot Threatens Russia & Iran’s Energy Grip

Turkey’s Gas Pivot: LNG Deals and Domestic Production Turkey is undertaking a strategic overhaul of its gas supply. Once overwhelmingly dependent on pipeline gas from Russia and Iran, Ankara is now doubling down on alternative sources. State energy company BOTAŞ has struck a flurry of long-term LNG deals with a range of suppliers. In September, it signed a landmark 20-year agreement with Mercuria to import about 4 bcm of U.S. LNG annually starting in 2026 tradingview.com. This single deal will total roughly 70 bcm over two decades. Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar hailed it as a “milestone” for Turkey’s energy security,
8 October 2025
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Gold Hits $4,000 as AI Frenzy Pushes Stocks Near Record – Boom or Bust Ahead?

Gold Hits $4,000 as AI Frenzy Pushes Stocks Near Record – Boom or Bust Ahead?

Gold Soars to Record High as Risks Mount Gold’s astonishing climb to record highs above $4,000 per ounce underscores how anxious the global backdrop has become. The metal has spiked over 50% in 2025, an “unbelievable” rally that signals “something bad is happening and that we should be nervous,” warns Dan Smith, a commodity analytics director reuters.com. Indeed, analysts say little stands in the way of gold’s surge given the current climate reuters.com. Virtually every classic gold driver is flashing green: geopolitical strife, economic uncertainty, and expectations of easier monetary policy have all converged. “Right now, everything that is a
8 October 2025
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Dogecoin Whales Rock the Price – Is a $0.30 Breakout Next?

Dogecoin Whales Rock the Price – Is a $0.30 Breakout Next?

Roller-Coaster Week for DOGE Prices Early October 2025 has been a roller-coaster ride for Dogecoin. After steadily rising into the first week of “Uptober” – even briefly peaking around $0.2701 – the meme-inspired cryptocurrency was met with intense selling pressure at that level coindesk.com. On October 7, large holders (“whales”) apparently took profits en masse near the $0.27 resistance, triggering a sharp intraday drop of about 8% coindesk.com. During the steepest two-hour downturn, over a billion DOGE changed hands as stop-losses cascaded and short-term traders bailed out coindesk.com. This whale-driven wave of liquidations pushed Dogecoin down to the mid-$0.24s at
8 October 2025
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Mystery $75M Bet Propels POET Technologies – Tiny Optical Chipmaker Rides AI Gold Rush

Mystery $75M Bet Propels POET Technologies – Tiny Optical Chipmaker Rides AI Gold Rush

$75 Million Infusion Fuels AI Connectivity Expansion POET’s $75 million capital raise – a non-brokered private placement of ~13.64 million shares (with warrants) – marks a major vote of confidence in the company’s technology ts2.tech. “This is the largest single investment in POET’s history,” noted CEO Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, adding it boosts POET’s balance sheet to $150 M+ cash and no debt ts2.tech ts2.tech. The deal was funded by a single institutional backer (whose identity was not disclosed), sparking speculation of a potential strategic partner behind the scenes ts2.tech. With this hefty war chest, management plans to “scale up [POET’s] growth ambitions in the
8 October 2025
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XRP Plunges Below $3 as ETF Delays Stir Market Jitters – Will Ripple’s Token Rebound?

XRP Plunges Below $3 as ETF Delays Stir Market Jitters – Will Ripple’s Token Rebound?

XRP Price Slides Under $3 Amid Market Pullback XRP’s price took a sharp turn downward on Tuesday, Oct. 7, breaking below the psychological $3 level as crypto markets turned “risk-off.” The token dropped about 4.5% on the day, closing around $2.85 fxleaders.com. Earlier in the session XRP had climbed above $3 (tapping resistance near $3.07) before a wave of profit-taking – led by some large institutional wallets – knocked it back down fxleaders.com. This pullback mirrored a broader market correction: Bitcoin slid ~2.4% and the overall crypto market shed roughly 2% in value, as traders cooled off after last week’s
8 October 2025
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Bitcoin’s Rollercoaster: New $126K High, Sudden Dip – Will It Hit $140K Next?

Bitcoin’s Rollercoaster: New $126K High, Sudden Dip – Will It Hit $140K Next?

Bitcoin’s Record High and Flash Pullback Bitcoin kicked off the second week of “Uptober” (October) with a spectacular rally – only to see a swift retracement that has traders debating what’s next. On Monday, the leading cryptocurrency soared to a record ~$126,200, its highest price ever, following a multi-day climb coindesk.com. The surge marked roughly a 10% gain since the start of the month, continuing Bitcoin’s trend as one of the strongest-performing assets of 2025 coindesk.com. By Tuesday, however, momentum stalled: Bitcoin fell about 2–3% from its peak, dipping to the $121K level as traders took profits coindesk.com. This pullback
8 October 2025
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Precious Metals Boom: Gold Hits $4,000 as Turmoil Sparks Safe-Haven Frenzy

Precious Metals Boom: Gold Hits $4,000 as Turmoil Sparks Safe-Haven Frenzy

Market Overview: Record Rally and Price Movements Investors queue outside a bullion shop in Sydney as gold prices hit all-time highs. Gold’s historic rally went into overdrive this week, breaking above $4,000/oz for the first time. On Tuesday Oct 7, U.S. gold futures surged past the $4,000 mark and settled at $4,004.40, after touching an intraday high of $4,014 reuters.com reuters.com. Spot gold closed just shy of the milestone around $3,986, itself a record high reuters.com. By Wednesday Oct 8, the momentum continued – spot gold jumped another ~1.2% to about $4,032/oz and futures climbed to $4,055 reuters.com, cementing gold’s
8 October 2025
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Sysco’s Big Earnings Reveal: Will the $81 Billion Food Giant’s Q1 2026 Be a Boom or a Bust?

Sysco’s Big Earnings Reveal: Will the $81 Billion Food Giant’s Q1 2026 Be a Boom or a Bust?

Company Overview & Recent Performance Sysco Corporation sits atop the foodservice distribution industry as a dominant player. The company sells and delivers food and related products to restaurants, hospitals, schools, hotels, and other venues across the globe seekingalpha.com. With 337 distribution facilities serving about 730,000 customer locations worldwide, Sysco’s footprint is unmatched seekingalpha.com. In the fiscal year 2025 (ended June 28, 2025), Sysco’s sales exceeded $81 billion, affirming its status as the largest “food-away-from-home” distributor on the planet seekingalpha.com. This massive scale allows Sysco to leverage cost efficiencies and purchasing power; it holds roughly 17% of the U.S. foodservice distribution market,
8 October 2025
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Wall Street’s Wild 48 Hours: Record Highs, AI Deals & Gold’s $4,000 Breakout

Wall Street’s Wild 48 Hours: Record Highs, AI Deals & Gold’s $4,000 Breakout

Market Index Roundup (Oct 7–8, 2025) U.S. equities see-sawed over the past two days. On Tuesday (Oct 7), the major indexes pulled back modestly after a multi-session winning streak: the S&P 500 fell about 0.4%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.2%, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.7% reuters.com. Notably, this retreat came immediately after the S&P and Nasdaq had touched intraday record levels earlier that day investopedia.com. The dip snapped the S&P’s seven-day rally investopedia.com, as traders locked in profits from the market’s recent run-up. These declines followed a banner session on Monday. In the Oct 6 session, the
8 October 2025
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Northern Lights Alert! Solar Storms, Draconid Meteors & a Bright Harvest Moon Dazzle Oct. 8–9, 2025

Northern Lights Alert! Solar Storms, Draconid Meteors & a Bright Harvest Moon Dazzle Oct. 8–9, 2025

Geomagnetic Storms & Aurora Alerts A geomagnetic storm watch is in effect, as Earth encounters the debris of two solar eruptions from earlier this month. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts minor G1-class geomagnetic storms on October 8, with a slight chance they intensify to moderate G2 level people.com. These disturbances are caused by a pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – clouds of charged solar plasma – that launched from the Sun on Oct. 3–4 and are just now arriving at Earth earthsky.org. As a result, skywatchers at high latitudes have an elevated chance to witness the aurora borealis
8 October 2025
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Stock Market Today

Corning stock price hits record close — what’s driving GLW and the next big test

Corning stock price hits record close — what’s driving GLW and the next big test

7 February 2026
Corning shares jumped 8.3% to a record $122.16 Friday, gaining 11% over two sessions amid strong demand for AI infrastructure stocks. The move follows a $6 billion optical fiber deal with Meta and upgraded company forecasts. Shares traded as high as $122.56 and rose 0.6% after hours. COO Avery Nelson sold 1,894 shares for tax withholding, retaining 66,050.
PepsiCo stock: €2.5 billion bond deal lands as investors size up the price-cut gamble

PepsiCo stock: €2.5 billion bond deal lands as investors size up the price-cut gamble

7 February 2026
PepsiCo priced €2.5 billion in euro notes across four maturities, with settlement set for Feb. 11, according to an SEC filing. The company plans to use proceeds for general corporate purposes, including repaying commercial paper. Shares closed at $170.49 Friday, up 1.8%. PepsiCo is also cutting U.S. snack prices by up to 15% after consumer pushback.
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