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NASDAQ:BIDU News 27 June 2025 - 11 October 2025

Nasdaq Stumbles as Fed Jitters Mount, Intel Soars, Tariffs Rattle Tech Markets

Global Market Bloodbath: Trade War 2.0 Sparks October 2025 Stock Crash

From Record Highs to Sudden Crash Only days before the rout, markets were basking in record highs. In fact, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite set all-time peaks on Oct. 9 reuters.com, capping a remarkable rally fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) euphoria and expectations of upcoming Federal Reserve rate cuts ts2.tech. Even a U.S. government shutdown (ongoing since Oct. 1) had barely dented confidence – Wall Street shrugged off the political drama as tech stocks climbed relentlessly through early October ts2.tech ts2.tech. That optimism flipped overnight. By Friday, October 10, a cascade of bad news ended the “melt-up.” President Donald
11 October 2025
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Baidu’s AI-Powered Revival: Latest Stock Surge, Tech Breakthroughs, and 2025 Outlook

Baidu’s AI-Powered Revival: Latest Stock Surge, Tech Breakthroughs, and 2025 Outlook

Baidu Inc. (BIDU) Stock and Business Overview as of September 24, 2025 Latest News and Recent Developments Baidu has seen a flurry of noteworthy developments leading up to September 24, 2025. In late August, the company delivered strong quarterly results (for Q2 2025), beating estimates on both revenue and profit. Revenue grew in the low teens percentage YoY – a clear sign that Baidu’s business has regained momentum post-pandemic. Management credited a recovery in online advertising demand as well as rapid growth in its AI-driven businesses for the upbeat results. This marked the second consecutive quarter of double-digit top-line growth,
24 September 2025
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AI Superpower Showdown: U.S. vs. China vs. Europe – Who’s Winning the Global AI Race?

AI Superpower Showdown: U.S. vs. China vs. Europe – Who’s Winning the Global AI Race?

AI Research & Academic Output: Publications, Patents and Breakthroughs China has emerged as the global research powerhouse in AI by volume. A 2025 analysis shows China’s AI publication output in 2024 matched the combined output of the US, UK, and EU digital-science.com. Chinese researchers not only publish the most papers, they also garner the largest share of citations (over 40% globally) – a sign that China leads in influential AI research digital-science.com. The country’s academic ecosystem for AI is vast: China boasts some 30,000 active AI researchers and hundreds of institutions conducting AI research, far dwarfing other nations digital-science.com. It
22 September 2025
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AI’s 48-Hour Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Deals, Breakthroughs and Global Showdowns (Sept 10–11, 2025)

AI’s 48-Hour Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Deals, Breakthroughs and Global Showdowns (Sept 10–11, 2025)

Corporate & Tech Industry Updates OpenAI’s Historic Cloud Deal with Oracle: OpenAI and Oracle have reportedly inked a $300 billion cloud computing deal, securing massive computing power for OpenAI over the next five years techcrunch.com. If confirmed, it ranks among the largest cloud contracts ever. Oracle declined comment and OpenAI hasn’t confirmed it, but the sheer scale sent shockwaves through the industry. Oracle’s stock skyrocketed 36% in one day – its biggest jump since 1992 – lifting its valuation close to $1 trillion reuters.com. This “Oracle mania” ignited an AI-fueled rally in Asian tech markets from Tokyo to Taipei reuters.com reuters.com, reflecting
11 September 2025
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Global Tech Shake-Up: Space Force’s Secret Spaceplane, Telecom Megahack, and Chip Industry Bombshells (Aug 22–23, 2025)

Global Tech Shake-Up: Space Force’s Secret Spaceplane, Telecom Megahack, and Chip Industry Bombshells (Aug 22–23, 2025)

Semiconductors & Hardware Cybersecurity Consumer Electronics & Media Space Technology Telecom & Connectivity Automotive Tech Biotechnology & Health Tech Sources: Key information and quotes in this report are drawn from Reuters, Spaceflight Now, SC Media, Vice, and official company releases reuters.com reuters.com spaceflightnow.com scworld.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com spaceflightnow.com reuters.com reuters.com ts2.tech, among others. All developments are current as of August 23, 2025.
23 August 2025
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AI Stocks Shaken by Selloff, Bold Chip Gambits & New Launches – Aug 20-21, 2025 Roundup

AI Stocks Shaken by Selloff, Bold Chip Gambits & New Launches – Aug 20-21, 2025 Roundup

On August 20, the Nasdaq Composite fell about 0.7% as investors rotated out of AI leaders amid warnings from OpenAI’s Sam Altman that AI stocks may be in a bubble and a MIT study showing 95% of companies see no returns on AI spending. Palantir plunged roughly 16% from its recent highs amid the AI stock pullback. The White House confirmed it is working on a deal for the government to acquire a 10% equity stake in Intel. Nvidia is developing a new B30A AI chip for China based on its Blackwell architecture, with sample units expected as early as
21 August 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy Cools as SoftBank’s $2B Intel Bet Meets Palantir Plunge and Nvidia Slide

AI Stock Frenzy Cools as SoftBank’s $2B Intel Bet Meets Palantir Plunge and Nvidia Slide

SoftBank announced a $2 billion equity investment in Intel at $23 per share for a stake just under 2%. Intel’s stock rose about 7% on the news, seen as a morale lifeline for its turnaround. Nvidia’s shares fell 3.5% on Tuesday, the biggest one-day drop in four months, ahead of its Aug. 27 quarterly results. Palantir plunged over 9% on Aug. 19, its fifth straight daily decline, with the weekly drop exceeding 15% after reporting first-half 2025 revenue above $2 billion and GAAP profitability. OpenAI private-market talks reportedly value the company at $500 billion, with employees potentially selling up to
20 August 2025
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The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted by Google’s BERT (2018) and OpenAI’s GPT series (GPT-3, 2020). GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, debuted in 2020, and the ChatGPT prototype launched in November 2022, reaching 100 million users in two months. Voice assistants emerged with Siri (2011), Alexa (2014), Cortana (2014), and Google Assistant (2016). Google’s Bard evolved into Gemini in 2024, with Gemini Ultra as the top model, offering multimodal input, 40+ languages, and real-time
28 July 2025
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Understanding How AI Works in 2025: Core Concepts, Breakthroughs, and Societal Impact

Understanding How AI Works in 2025: Core Concepts, Breakthroughs, and Societal Impact

By 2023, the U.S. FDA had approved 223 AI-powered medical devices, up from 6 in 2015. GPT-4, released in 2023, is described as having over 100 trillion parameters and powers ChatGPT-like capabilities. The Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 with the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” enabling self-attention and the training of very large models. Diffusion models such as DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, introduced in 2022–2023, revolutionized image generation. AlphaFold solved the protein folding problem in 2021, and by 2025 its database provides structures for nearly all catalogued proteins. By 2025, 78% of organizations report using AI
18 July 2025
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AI Supremacy, Space Odyssey & Tech Shakeups: The Biggest Tech News of July 2025

AI Supremacy, Space Odyssey & Tech Shakeups: The Biggest Tech News of July 2025

In July 2025, Nvidia briefly surpassed a $4 trillion market capitalization, becoming the world’s first company to reach a $4T valuation. In July 2025, Google DeepMind signed a $2.4 billion deal to license Windsurf technology after OpenAI’s $3 billion Windsurf bid collapsed, an acqui-hire boosting Project Gemini. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that matches or outperforms top closed models on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Baidu open-sourced ERNIE 4.5, a model family up to 424 billion parameters, claiming it rivals top Western models at half the size. On July 2, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 achieved its 500th orbital
15 July 2025
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Global AI Language Technology & NLP Update (June–July 2025)

Global AI Language Technology & NLP Update (June–July 2025)

Baidu open-sourced Ernie 4.5 LLM family under Apache 2.0, releasing 10 variants from 300M to 424B parameters and claiming the 300B model outperforms rivals at half the size. ElevenLabs released an alpha of its v3 model with 70+ languages and partnered with Cisco to embed lifelike voice AI into Webex contact centers. Apple announced Live Translation at WWDC 2025, delivering real-time on-device translation across iOS 16, FaceTime, and calls using Apple’s foundation language model. MIT researchers published on June 17, 2025 a study identifying the root cause of position bias in transformers and proposed architectural fixes to improve topic-tracking in
9 July 2025
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AI Trends 2025: Emerging Technologies, Market Insights, and Industry Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

AI Trends 2025: Emerging Technologies, Market Insights, and Industry Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is now one of the world’s top websites, with over 5 billion visits per month as of May 2025. In 2024, 78% of organizations reported using AI in at least one business function, up from 55% in 2023. U.S. venture funding for AI in 2024 reached $109 billion, nearly 12× China’s $9.3B and 24× the UK’s $4.5B. Global private funding for generative AI in 2024 was $33.9B, an 18.7% increase from 2023. Alphabet’s Waymo provides 150,000 self-driving rides per week in U.S. cities, while Baidu’s Apollo Go operates across numerous Chinese urban centers. The FDA approved 223
27 June 2025
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