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Artificial Intelligence News 8 October 2025

Reddit’s Stock Explodes! 78% Revenue Surge, Google AI Deal Talks & 70% Rally 🔥

Reddit’s Rollercoaster: How Booming Ads, AI Deals and Political Scrutiny Could Shock RDDT Investors

Key Facts (as of 8 Oct 2025) Item Detail Sources Current stock price Reddit’s Class A shares traded around $199.54 at 11:58 AM EDT on 8 Oct 2025 with an intraday high of $206.22 and low of $195.01; the official investor‑relations site notes a 52‑week high of $282.95 and low of $69.30investor.redditinc.com. Reddit investor relations Analyst consensus Across 25‑28 analysts the consensus rating is “moderate/buy”. Average price targets range from $200–$223, with highs around $300 (JMP Securities, Oppenheimer) and lows near $75marketbeat.combenzinga.com. MarketBeat, Stockanalysis, Benzinga Q2 2025 results Reddit delivered its first profitable quarter: revenue rose 78 % to $500 M and advertising revenue jumped 84 % to $465 Minvestor.redditinc.com. Adjusted net
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Palo Alto Networks’ AI-Fueled Surge: Stock Soars on Cybersecurity Boom, Bold Forecasts & Big Deals

Palo Alto Networks’ AI-Fueled Surge: Stock Soars on Cybersecurity Boom, Bold Forecasts & Big Deals

Sources: Palo Alto Networks and CyberArk deal coverage – Reutersreuters.comreuters.com; Q4 2025 earnings and guidance – Reutersreuters.com, Futurumfuturumgroup.comfuturumgroup.com; Analyst ratings and price targets – StockAnalysisstockanalysis.comstockanalysis.com; Competitive landscape – Bullish Bearsbullishbears.combullishbears.com; Unit 42 threat intel news – ts2.techts2.tech; Expert quotes – Reutersreuters.com, Breakingviewsreuters.com; Stock performance data – Yahoo/Benzingahotcandlestick.com.
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Confluent, Inc. (CFLT) – Will a Real‑Time Data Pioneer Become a Takeover Target? (October 8 2025)

Unraveling Confluent (CFLT) Stock: Latest Price, AI‑Driven Buzz & What Experts Say

Current Stock Price & Recent Performance (as of 8 Oct 2025) Date Open High Low Close Daily Change Notes 8 Oct 2025 $23.72 $24.07 $21.98 $22.84 −10.18 % Stock decline amid deal speculation and market volatilitystockanalysis.com. 7 Oct 2025 $21.33 $21.33 $20.12 $20.73 −2.50 % Day after Reuters’ sale‑rumor report; shares closed near weekly lowstockanalysis.com. 6 Oct 2025 $20.50 $21.49 $20.23 $21.26 +7.36 % Stock rallied following takeover rumorsinvestors.confluent.io. Confluent’s closing price on 8 Oct 2025 was around $22.84stockanalysis.com. INDmoney’s summary for the week lists a closing price of $20.74 and a day’s high of $21.33indmoney.com; the difference likely reflects after‑hours moves or data update timing. The stock trades well below its 52‑week
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AI Drug Discovery Darling? Recursion Pharma (RXRX) Stock’s Wild Ride in 2025

AI Drug Discovery Darling? Recursion Pharma (RXRX) Stock’s Wild Ride in 2025

Introduction: A New Kind of Biotech Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: RXRX) is redefining drug discovery by combining cutting-edge biology and data science. Based in Salt Lake City, this “TechBio” pioneer uses automation, massive datasets and machine learning to identify new therapies faster than traditional labsdirectorstalkinterviews.comnasdaq.com. Its mission – “to decode biology to radically improve lives” – has attracted major industry partners and bold investors. But as an early-stage biotech with no approved drugs, Recursion’s stock can be a rollercoaster ride, swayed by scientific milestones and market sentiment alike. In early October 2025, Recursion’s stock made headlines after a sudden surge
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SoundHound AI Stock Soars 240% – Could This Voice Tech Disruptor Make You a Millionaire?

SoundHound AI Stock Soars 240% – Could This Voice Tech Disruptor Make You a Millionaire?

SOUN Stock Surges on AI Hype and Big News SoundHound AI’s stock has been on a tear in recent months, riding the wave of excitement surrounding artificial intelligence. The company’s share price has climbed roughly 240% over the past year (and more than doubled in the last six months) ts2.tech. Just in the past week, SOUN jumped about 15%, climbing from the mid-$15s to around $18 per share, amid a broader AI stock rally. One catalyst was Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announcing a blockbuster partnership with OpenAI: the ChatGPT creator will use up to 6 gigawatts of AMD chips to
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Dell’s AI Server Boom Doubles Growth Forecasts – Is a Data Center Glut Looming?

Dell’s AI Server Boom Doubles Growth Forecasts – Is a Data Center Glut Looming?

Dell Bets Big on AI – Doubling Growth Targets Dell’s announcement on October 7, 2025 marked a turning point for the company’s trajectory. At an analyst meeting that day, the tech giant dramatically raised its long-term financial forecasts, effectively doubling the pace at which it expects to expand in coming years ts2.tech. Management now projects high-single-digit percentage revenue growth (7–9% annually) and at least mid-teens earnings growth through 2029 reuters.com ts2.tech – a remarkable upgrade from the prior “GDP-plus” style targets (~3–4% revenue and ~8% EPS growth). The bold new goals signal far greater confidence in future demand, driven almost
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OpenAI’s Mega-Deals with Nvidia & AMD Spark a $1 Trillion AI Frenzy

OpenAI’s Mega-Deals with Nvidia & AMD Spark a $1 Trillion AI Frenzy

OpenAI Fuels a $1 Trillion AI Hardware Boom OpenAI – the creator of ChatGPT – has positioned itself at the center of an AI hardware buying frenzy that is reshaping the tech industry. In the past few weeks (early October 2025), OpenAI announced two blockbuster chip-supply deals that together span 16 gigawatts of computing capacity – an almost inconceivable scale. (For perspective, 16 GW of data center power is roughly equivalent to the output of 16 large power plants.) These deals, one with long-time AI chip leader Nvidia and the other with rival AMD, are helping propel what analysts dub a “trillion-dollar
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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
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Alibaba’s 2025 Tech Rally: AI Gold Rush, Stock Soars & What’s Next for 9988.HK

Alibaba’s 2025 Tech Rally: AI Gold Rush, Stock Soars & What’s Next for 9988.HK

Stock Performance & Recent News Rally to Multi-Year Highs: Alibaba’s stock has staged a remarkable comeback in 2025. After two difficult years, the shares rebounded with powerful momentum this year, fueled largely by optimism around the company’s tech initiatives and a brighter Chinese policy environment. By early October, 9988.HK had climbed to about HK$183 per share, marking its highest level since 2021ts2.tech. This represents roughly an 85–90% gain year-to-datets2.tech – a stark outperformance versus the broader market (for context, the NYSE Composite was up only ~12% over the same period)ts2.tech. The rally accelerated in late September, when a series of bullish catalysts converged. On September 24, CEO
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AI‑Powered Future: ABB Stock Soars After Mega Robotics Deal – What Investors Need to Know Now

AI‑Powered Future: ABB Stock Soars After Mega Robotics Deal – What Investors Need to Know Now

Key Facts (as of 8 Oct 2025) Metric Value Evidence Stock price ~58.46 CHF per share (closing price 7 Oct 2025digrin.com) with a forecast fair opening on 8 Oct of ~58.68 CHFstockinvest.us. The stock had risen in seven of the prior ten trading days, gaining ~2.38 % over two weeksstockinvest.us. Digrin, StockInvest Market cap ≈US$135 billioncompaniesmarketcap.com. CompaniesMarketCap Trailing P/E ratio ~32.4×companiesmarketcap.com (up from 25× at end‑2024). CompaniesMarketCap Dividend yield (TTM) ≈1.53 % with an annual dividend of US$1.13 per ADRcompaniesmarketcap.com. ABB has paid a dividend for 22 consecutive yearscompaniesmarketcap.com. CompaniesMarketCap Major news (late Sept – 8 Oct 2025) ABB announced SoftBank would buy its Robotics division for US$5.4 billion, reversing a planned spin‑offnew.abb.com. The 7,000‑employee
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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
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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
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Stock Market Today

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
Seagate shares rose 5.9% to $429.32 Friday after Citigroup raised its price target to $480 and reiterated a buy rating. The gain ended a two-day slide but left the stock 6.6% below its Feb. 3 high. CEO Dave Mosley sold 20,000 shares on Feb. 2 under a pre-arranged plan, SEC filings show. U.S. jobs and inflation data next week are seen as key tests for tech stocks.
Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

7 February 2026
Cummins shares jumped 6.8% to $577.73 Friday, recovering from a nearly 9% post-earnings drop the day before. The company reported Q4 revenue up 1% to $8.54 billion, took a $218 million charge tied to its hydrogen business, and guided for 2026 EBITDA of 17–18% of sales. Demand for data center generators offset weakness in North American truck markets. Analyst reaction was mixed; Truist raised its price target.
Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

7 February 2026
Corning shares surged 8.3% to $122.16 Friday, their highest close since the dot-com era, after Meta agreed to buy up to $6 billion in fiber-optic cables. The stock is up 40% since late 2025, fueled by strong first-quarter guidance and AI data-center demand. Insiders sold shares following the rally, SEC filings show. Investors await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data for rate signals.
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