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Artificial Intelligence News 14 October 2025

Astera Labs Stock Soars on AI Momentum: Is This High-Flying Chip Innovator Still a Buy in 2025?

Astera Labs (ALAB) Stock Skyrockets on AI Boom – Nvidia & AMD Partnerships Fuel Frenzy

Stock Rally & Market Sentiment Astera Labs has emerged as a hot AI infrastructure stock in 2025. After its mid-2023 IPO at ~$36, ALAB surged through 2024 and 2025, briefly topping $262 (Sept 18, 2025) before a broader tech sell-off in Octoberts2.tech. On Oct 14 the stock fell roughly 14% intraday (trading near $170) amid market volatilityainvest.com. Despite pullbacks, ALAB remains up dramatically YTD (over 250%). The run-up reflects extreme market enthusiasm for AI “picks-and-shovels” stocks, but also high valuation concerns. Astera now trades at ~347× forward EPS and ~42× forward salests2.technasdaq.com – higher multiples than peers. This lofty pricing
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Arista Networks (ANET) Stock Explodes on AI-Driven Growth – Will It Hit New Highs?

Arista Networks Surges on AI Networking Demand, NVIDIA Rivalry Sparks Caution

Arista Networks, long known for its data-center Ethernet switches and software, has become one of the highest-flying tech stocks amid the AI boom. Its gear – the “traffic controllers” of cloud computing – is favored by major hyperscalers and enterprises for low-latency, high-speed networking. In its latest report, Arista booked a 30% revenue jump to $2.205B, beating estimates, and boosted 2025 revenue guidance by ~50% relative to prior plansts2.tech. CEO Jayshree Ullal told investors that the surge in AI/cloud investment is a “once-in-a-lifetime” tailwind, and reaffirmed Arista’s goal of hitting roughly $10B in sales by 2026ts2.techfinimize.com. Industry analysts echo the
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Incredible Rally: Bitfarms (BITF) Stock Jumps 148% YTD Amid Crypto Boom & AI Pivot

Bitfarms (BITF) Stock Soars 148% on Bitcoin Boom and AI Pivot – CFO Shake-Up, Data-Center Plans Power Rally

Bitfarms’ recent stock surge has coincided with an explosive rally in cryptocurrencies and a strategic shift toward high-performance computing (HPC) facilities. As of Oct. 14, 2025, Bitfarms shares trade near $4.50 (USD) on Nasdaq, up from about $1.00 at the start of 2025ts2.techts2.tech. This +148% YTD move (≈+440% over 6 months) has been fueled by record Bitcoin prices, aggressive share buybacks, and new project announcements. For example, on October 10 the stock jumped ~16% to a new 52-week high after Bitfarms disclosed the conversion of its $300M financing into a project loan for the Panther Creek HPC/AI campusts2.techinvestor.bitfarms.com. By mid-October,
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Walmart’s AI Shopping Shockwave: Stock Spikes 2% as ChatGPT Checkout Debuts and Tariff Storm Looms

Walmart’s AI Shopping Shockwave: Stock Spikes 2% as ChatGPT Checkout Debuts and Tariff Storm Looms

In short, Walmart’s move to integrate ChatGPT is being viewed as a game-changer for retail. CEO McMillon envisions a future where customers “simply chat and buy” and Walmart handles the rest corporate.walmart.com. That vision has excited investors – WMT’s stock is performing well and analysts see upside tipranks.com marketbeat.com – even as rising trade tariffs threaten margins. How things play out will depend on adoption of the new AI shopping tools and whether Walmart can contain costs. For now, experts say the stock’s fundamentals look solid: Walmart recently raised guidance and posted healthy sales gains (Q2 sales +4.8% YoY, e-commerce
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Salesforce Unleashes AI Agents to Fix a $7B Problem – Will CRM Stocks Soar?

Salesforce Unleashes AI Agents to Fix a $7B Problem – Will CRM Stocks Soar?

Salesforce’s latest AI push – unveiled at its Oct 2025 Dreamforce conference – centers on Agentforce, a framework of “autonomous AI agents” embedded throughout Salesforce products venturebeat.com. With 12,000+ customers already using Agentforce in 2024 reuters.com tekedia.com, the company is betting these agents will break the cycle of stalled pilots. In a press briefing, co-founder CTO Parker Harris said “we are truly in the agentic AI era,” predicting that “40% of the work in the Fortune 1000 is probably going to be done by AI, and it’s going to be humans and AI actually working together” venturebeat.com. Salesforce frames Agentforce 360
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BlackRock’s GIP Poised for $38B AES Power Grab – AI-Fuelled Demand Sparks Takeover Frenzy

BlackRock Soars: Crypto ETFs, AI Funds and Mega M&A Propel Assets to Record $13.5T

BlackRock’s latest earnings and moves underscore its market heft and broad strategy. CEO Larry Fink observed that “record demand” across the firm’s businesses — from technology-driven funds to private credit and ETFs — powered the quarterreuters.com. In particular, strong flows into lower-cost index and cash products (helped by the Fed’s recent rate cut) drove the fee bump. An analyst noted that all of BlackRock’s new private-market businesses (HPS, Preqin, GIP) “made healthy contributions” to Q3 resultsreuters.com, validating BlackRock’s aggressive M&A in 2025. Larry Fink said the unified public-private platform positions BlackRock well for what he expects will be a strong
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$5B Brookfield Deal Sends Bloom Energy Stock Soaring – Fuel-Cell Future of AI

$5B Brookfield Deal Sends Bloom Energy Stock Soaring – Fuel-Cell Future of AI

Brookfield’s AI Infrastructure Bet On Oct. 13 (market hours), Bloom and Brookfield jointly announced the partnership via BusinessWire and press reports investor.bloomenergy.com. Under the agreement, Brookfield (a $1+ trillion asset manager) commits up to $5 billion to fund Bloom’s fuel cells at AI data centers worldwide investor.bloomenergy.com datacenterdynamics.com. Bloom becomes Brookfield’s preferred on-site power provider for its new “AI factories” – purpose-built data centers where power and compute are designed in concert investor.bloomenergy.com datacenterdynamics.com. A spokesperson confirmed the first European AI factory site will be announced by year-end investor.bloomenergy.com datacenterdynamics.com. Brookfield’s dedicated AI Infrastructure strategy already includes multi-billion dollar data-center and clean-power
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TSMC Stock Surges on AI Boom and U.S. Expansion: What to Know on Sep 23, 2025

TSMC’s AI-Fueled Rally: Stock Hits Record High, Earnings Soar Amid Global Chip Race

Breaking out: Taiwan’s TSMC has ridden a wave of AI demand to record results. The company’s stock and revenues are surging as it churns out advanced chips for customers like Nvidia and Applebloomberg.comreuters.com. Q3 sales (~$32.5B) beat estimates, and management expects ~30% growth for all of 2025ts2.tech. “We have fully booked production lines in the U.S. for the next three years,” CEO C.C. Wei told reporters, even as he vowed to keep investing heavily at home (“continue to build [fabs] in Taiwan because it is still not enough”reuters.com). Industry analysts note TSMC’s unique position: IDC’s Mario Morales says “TSMC will
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Google’s $15B India AI Bet: First-Ever AI Hub Launched in Vizag – Market Reacts & Experts Weigh In

Google’s $15B India AI Bet: First-Ever AI Hub Launched in Vizag – Market Reacts & Experts Weigh In

Google’s Record AI Investment and India Hub On Oct 14, 2025, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Indian officials unveiled Google’s first AI hub in India – a massive investment of about $15 billion over five years blog.google investing.com. Google calls it its “largest investment in India to date” blog.google. The centerpiece is a 1‑gigawatt data center campus in Visakhapatnam, planned to scale to multiple gigawatts. This will be backed by new power lines, clean energy plants, and a major subsea cable landing station. In Kurian’s words, this will be “the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing
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HCL Tech’s AI-Powered Pivot Ignites Stock Rally – Brokers Say It’s Better Than TCS

HCL Tech’s AI-Powered Pivot Ignites Stock Rally – Brokers Say It’s Better Than TCS

Robust Q2 Results and AI Gains HCLTech’s Q2FY26 report (for Sept 30) stunned analysts with broad-based strength. Consolidated revenue grew 10.7% YoY to ₹31,942 crore and sequential profit rose ~10.2%economictimes.indiatimes.com, topping surveys. Notably, the company disclosed ₹886 crore ($100M) in revenue from advanced AI services – nearly 3% of the quarter’s takeeconomictimes.indiatimes.com. CEO C. Vijayakumar said this AI business is nascent but exploding: “A lot of discretionary spend is happening on AI… I see a strong growth potential for our advanced AI services,” he told ETeconomictimes.indiatimes.com. With AI projects ramping, HCL raised the lower end of its full-year revenue growth
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Nvidia’s AI Power Play Sends Navitas Semiconductor Stock Soaring – Here’s Why It Matters

Nvidia’s AI Power Play Sends Navitas Semiconductor Stock Soaring – Here’s Why It Matters

Navitas Soars on Nvidia Collaboration On Oct. 13, 2025 Navitas Semiconductor announced it had “developed advanced 800 VDC GaN and SiC power devices” for NVIDIA’s forthcoming AI data center architecture Navitassemi. The market reacted immediately. NVTS stock closed ~21% higher (~$9.97) on Oct. 13 and surged to ~$12.71 (+27%) after hours ts2.tech. (Seeking Alpha also reported NVTS up ~26% premarket Oct. 14 Seekingalpha.) Analysts noted the trigger: Navitas’s press release confirmed it would supply GaN/SiC chips to enable NVIDIA’s new 800V DC “AI factory” power system Navitassemi Gurufocus. In other words, as Nvidia pushes a dramatic shift in data center
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C3.ai (AI) Stock Freefall: 25% Slide After Shocking Miss – Analysts Weigh In on Future

C3.ai (AI) Stock Freefall: 25% Slide After Shocking Miss – Analysts Weigh In on Future

Company Overview C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE: AI) is a Redwood City, California-based enterprise AI software companyreuters.com. Its flagship C3 AI Platform is an end-to-end cloud environment for building and running AI applications at scale. On top of this, C3.ai offers a suite of industry-specific AI applications (for utilities, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, defense, etc.) and domain-specific generative AI toolsreuters.combusinesswire.com. In FY 2025 (year ended Apr 30) revenue was $389.1 million (up 25% YoY)stockanalysis.com, but the company remains unprofitable (net loss was –$288.7M)stockanalysis.com. C3.ai was founded by tech entrepreneur Tom Siebel (former CEO); as of Sept 2025 he moved to Executive Chairman
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Stock Market Today

CapitaLand Investment share price jumps as CapitaLand REIT payouts roll in — what’s next for 9CI

CapitaLand Investment share price jumps as CapitaLand REIT payouts roll in — what’s next for 9CI

7 February 2026
CapitaLand Investment shares rose 1.3% to S$3.12 on Friday, bucking a 0.8% drop in Singapore’s benchmark index. CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust reported a 16.4% jump in second-half distributable income, while CapitaLand Ascendas REIT posted a 1.4% full-year rise. CapitaLand China Trust saw full-year DPU fall to 4.82 cents amid weaker yuan and occupancy. CLI reports FY2025 results on Feb. 11.
Keppel stock holds near 12-year high after profit jump, special dividend; buyback adds support

Keppel stock holds near 12-year high after profit jump, special dividend; buyback adds support

7 February 2026
Keppel shares closed at S$11.64 on Friday, up 0.17%, after surging 6.1% the previous day on stronger FY2025 profit and a larger dividend plan. The company bought back 151,400 shares for about S$1.74 million. Keppel reported a 29% rise in full-year profit to S$1.02 billion and proposed a total distribution of 47 cents per share, including a special dividend partly paid in Keppel REIT units.
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