Banks Warn of Bubble as AI Darling Palantir Plunges from Record High
Market Rally Hits a Wall of Warnings After a red-hot October rally in U.S. stocks, November kicked off with a stark reality check. Last week, Wall Street’s major indexes were at all-time highs, buoyed by Big Tech earnings and surging investments in artificial intelligencereuters.com. But now top bankers are urging caution. Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick and Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon both warned the market may be due for a pullback, citing frothy tech valuationsreuters.com. “Technology multiples are full,” Solomon observed, suggesting parts of the market have grown too exuberant. This sentiment echoes JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, who recently cautioned
From Bitcoin Miner to AI Cloud Powerhouse: Iris Energy’s Meteoric Rise (IREN Stock Soars on $9.7B Microsoft Deal)
Stock Price and Recent Trends Iris Energy’s stock has been on a remarkable run in 2025, reflecting both the crypto market’s revival and the company’s strategic pivot to new business lines. As of November 4, 2025, IREN trades around the high-$60s per share – roughly five times higher than its price at the start of the yearcompaniesmarketcap.com. The rally accelerated in recent weeks: the stock jumped +11.5% on November 3 alone to $67.75iren.com after a major partnership announcement (discussed below). Year-to-date, IREN has soared about +480%, vastly outperforming the broader market. For context, IREN had already climbed ~500% in 2023
AI Rally Hits Speed Bump as Futures Fall – Key Facts Before the Nov. 4 Market Open
U.S. Futures Slide as Tech Rally Stalls Stock index futures are firmly in the red before the opening bell, indicating Wall Street will give back some of Monday’s gains. S&P 500 futures are down roughly 0.9% and Nasdaq 100 futures off 1.2%, with Dow futures –0.7%seekingalpha.comseekingalpha.com. This comes after the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 ticked higher yesterday, buoyed by excitement over a big Amazon–OpenAI AI partnership, even as the Dow slippedeconomictimes.indiatimes.com. That optimism has proved short-lived; by early Tuesday, futures reversed as investors refocus on stretched valuations in the tech sector and worry that the AI boom may have
Palantir’s $500 Billion AI Surge: Record Earnings, Stock Whiplash & What’s Next for PLTR
Latest News: Record Quarter and Stock Volatility Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) just delivered a record-breaking Q3 2025, extending its meteoric run as one of this year’s hottest AI stocks. The company reported $1.18 billion in revenue (+63% YoY) and $0.21 in adjusted EPS, comfortably topping analyst forecasts of ~$1.09 B and $0.17 Zerohedge. It was the fourth straight quarter of accelerating growth, fueled by Palantir’s push into enterprise AI. In response, management raised full-year 2025 guidance – now expecting ~$4.40 B in revenue (up from ~$4.15 B prior) and a hefty $2.15 B in adjusted operating profit Zerohedge Zerohedge. Despite these stellar results (which CEO
Michael Burry’s $1.1 Billion Bet: Will the AI Stock Bubble Burst on Nvidia and Palantir?
Burry Targets an “AI Bubble” with Big Short Bets Michael Burry – best known for his prescient “Big Short” against the 2000s housing bubble – is now taking aim at the AI stock frenzy. In a regulatory filing for Q3 2025, Burry’s firm Scion Asset Management revealed huge new put option positions against two of the stock market’s hottest AI names: Nvidia and Palantir Technologiesmarkets.businessinsider.com. Put options are contracts that increase in value when the underlying stock falls, so these represent a high-conviction bet on a price decline. Scion’s disclosure showed put options on ~1,000,000 Nvidia shares (worth $186.6 million) and
Amazon’s $38 Billion OpenAI Deal Makes Bezos $10 B Richer and Ignites the AI Cloud Wars
AWS and OpenAI Ink a $38 Billion Cloud Partnership Amazon Web Services and OpenAI unveiled a multi-year cloud computing deal that ranks among the largest ever in tech. Under the agreement – valued at $38 billion over seven years – OpenAI will run and scale its advanced AI workloads on AWS’s “world-class infrastructure” starting immediatelyaboutamazon.com. In practical terms, AWS is provisioning OpenAI with vast computing capacity: on day one, OpenAI gains access to hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPU-based processors in AWS data centers, with the option to scale up to tens of millions of CPU cores for future growtharabianbusiness.com. AWS has
Cognizant’s Massive AI Bet: 350,000 Employees to Get Anthropic’s Claude as Stock Outlook Soars
Cognizant and Anthropic Forge a Landmark AI Alliance Cognizant – one of the world’s largest IT consulting and services firms – announced a broad partnership with Anthropic, the San Francisco AI company behind the Claude chatbot. On November 4, 2025, Cognizant revealed it has begun deploying Anthropic’s Claude large language model across its client-facing platforms and will extend access to up to 350,000 of its employees worldwidemoneycontrol.com. This sweeping internal rollout makes Cognizant one of Anthropic’s biggest customers to datex.com. The professional-services giant will use Claude not only to enhance its own workforce productivity but also as a core offering
Palantir’s AI-Fueled Stock Surge: PLTR Hits Record High Amid Big Deals and Bold Forecasts
Stock Price & Market Performance Palantir’s stock has been on a meteoric rise in 2025. Shares currently trade around record highs – just above the $200 mark in early Novemberblockonomi.com – after an astonishing rally over the course of the year. Year-to-date, PLTR has more than doubled in value, handily beating the broader market. In fact, Palantir’s stock is up roughly 160–165% in 2025, ranking it among the S&P 500’s top-performing stocksinvestopedia.com. This surge far outpaces even other prominent “AI winners” like Nvidia, and leaves the benchmark S&P 500 (up about 10–15% YTD) in the dustreuters.com. The enthusiasm has propelled
Tokyo Stock Exchange Surges to Record Highs on AI Boom – Inside the Nov 3, 2025 Rally
Indices Reach Historic Peaks Tokyo’s key stock indices soared to record heights as October 2025 wrapped up, setting the stage for a strong start to November. On the final trading day before the Culture Day holiday, the Nikkei 225 leapt by 2.1% to close at 52,411.34 – its highest level everreuters.com. This milestone also crowned an extraordinary October rally, with the Nikkei gaining 16.6% over the month (its best monthly performance in over 30 years)reuters.com. The TOPIX (broader Tokyo Stock Price Index) similarly notched an all-time closing high at 3,331.83 (up 0.9%)reuters.com, after touching an intraday peak of 3,348. The
OpenAI’s AI Power Play: GPT-5 Unveiled, $38B Cloud Deal, and a Global AI Shake-Up
OpenAI’s New Models and Features: GPT-5, Sora, and More OpenAI kicked off October 2025 with a bang at its DevDay 2025 in San Francisco, unveiling a suite of new AI models and tools aimed at developers and consumers. GPT-5 Pro, the company’s latest flagship language model, took center stagetechcrunch.com. Billed as the “smartest model in the API” for tasks requiring high precision and reasoning depthopenai.comtechcrunch.com, GPT-5 Pro is particularly geared toward demanding domains like finance, law, and healthcare where accuracy is paramounttechcrunch.com. “[Developers] now have access to the same model that powers Sora 2’s stunning video outputs right in your own
TeraWulf (WULF) Stock Skyrockets on AI Pivot – Price Surge, Earnings, and What’s Next
1. Current Stock Price & Recent Performance (Nov 3, 2025) As of November 3, 2025, TeraWulf’s stock is trading around $15.5 per share, holding on to gains from a dramatic late-October rallystockinvest.us. On Friday, Oct 31, WULF closed at $15.50, up 4.6% for the daystockinvest.us. The stock has been on a tear over the past two weeks – rising about 11% in the last 14 days and roughly 26% in the past 5 sessionsstockinvest.usindexbox.io. This surge brought WULF to levels not seen in nearly four years (the highest since Dec 2021), reflecting renewed investor enthusiasm. In intraday trading after the news,
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Woodside Energy share price slides into the weekend as ASX rout bites; oil talks, results ahead
Woodside Energy fell 1.6% to A$25.48 as the S&P/ASX 200 dropped 2.0%, its biggest one-day fall in 10 months. Energy, technology, and gold stocks each lost about 3%. Brent crude ended at $68 a barrel, up 0.7% on the day but down 4.3% for the week. Woodside reported record 2025 production and said Scarborough LNG remains on track for late 2026.
Wesfarmers share price: what to watch on ASX next week as results loom
Wesfarmers shares closed down 1.33% at A$85.04 on Friday, following a sharp drop in the S&P/ASX 200, which fell 2% for its steepest one-day loss in 10 months. Investors are watching for Australia’s household spending data next week and Wesfarmers’ half-year results due Feb. 19.
Lynas share price fell again — here’s what could move ASX:LYC next week
Lynas Rare Earths closed Friday at A$14.27, down 3.2%, with shares off about 11% over two sessions amid new U.S.-EU moves on critical minerals and proposed price floors. Trading volume reached 6 million shares. The next major update is an interim report expected around Feb 25–26.
Evolution Mining (EVN) share price: what to watch after a two-day slide and wild gold swings
Evolution Mining shares closed at A$14.34 Friday, down 1.4%, after a 3.2% drop Thursday. Gold volatility prompted CME Group to raise margin requirements for futures, while spot gold fell over 13.5% from its Jan. 29 high. Evolution reports half-year results Feb. 11, with investors watching for cost and production updates.