AI Stocks Skyrocket Globally as $100B Nvidia-OpenAI Deal and Alibaba’s Mega AI Push Ignite Market (Sept 23–24, 2025)

After a red-hot run of AI-driven gains, U.S. markets took a breather on September 23 as investors digested economic signals. The S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq pulled back after three straight record closes powered by AI enthusiasm reuters.com. Nvidia, fresh off a new record high the day prior, dipped 2.8% as traders took profits reuters.com. Other mega-cap tech names like Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple also ticked lower reuters.com. Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s cautious remarks about interest rates and stock valuations cooled sentiment, prompting some rotation out of richly valued tech shares. “With this being the third year of double-digit returns for the S&P 500, there needs to be another strong catalyst to move stocks materially higher. And right now, it is not clear what that catalyst can be,” observed Oliver Pursche of Wealthspire Advisors, noting signs of an economic slowdown tempering the rally reuters.com.

Lithium Americas Stock Soars 80% on U.S. Stake Talk – Key Facts & 2025 Outlook

Lithium Americas’ stock has experienced a volatile ride in 2025. Prior to this week’s news, LAC was trading near multi-year lows amid lithium price weakness. The U.S. shares started the year around the mid-$2 range and hit a 52-week low of ~$2.28 in the summerfinviz.com. The stock gradually rebounded into the $3s in early September, but still massively lagged its all-time highs. In the week of September 18–22, 2025, LAC hovered around $3 and even gapped down ~7% on Sept 23 to open at $3.12marketbeat.com, reflecting continued market jitters.
23 September 2025
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TSMC Stock Surges on AI Boom and U.S. Expansion: What to Know on Sep 23, 2025

TSMC Stock Surges on AI Boom and U.S. Expansion: What to Know on Sep 23, 2025

TSMC’s stock has been on a strong uptrend in 2025, fueled by the global semiconductor recovery and intense demand for AI chips. On September 23, 2025, TSM stock rallied sharply – up about 3.7% in a single session to ~$283 Investing – following bullish news of a new collaboration and reaffirmed growth plans. This builds on an already positive trajectory: the share price has gained roughly 36% year-to-date Benzinga, and about 59% in the past 12 months Ainvest.
23 September 2025
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SoundHound AI Stock Skyrockets on Red Lobster Deal – Is SOUN the Next Big AI Winner or Overhyped?

SoundHound AI Stock Skyrockets on Red Lobster Deal – Is SOUN the Next Big AI Winner or Overhyped?

SoundHound AI’s stock has been on a wild ride in 2024–2025. After an eye-popping 835% surge in 2024 amid AI hype sharewise.com, SOUN stumbled through 2025 with high volatility. By mid-September 2025, the stock was down around 8% year-to-date talkmarkets.com even as the broader market climbed, suggesting investors were taking profits on richly valued AI names. However, momentum returned in late September. On Sept 22, 2025, SOUN spiked 6.5% to $17.31 stockinvest.us. The next day, Sept 23, it rallied another ~5% to close at $18.25 after news of a headline-grabbing restaurant partnership. Intraday, SOUN even hit $19.33 finance.yahoo.com, marking an 8-month high as traders piled in.
23 September 2025
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Forward Industries (FORD) Shocks Wall Street with 2025 Crypto Pivot – 500% Stock Surge & $4B Solana Bet Revealed

Forward Industries, Inc. is a 60+ year-old company that until recently was known for designing and manufacturing specialty carrying cases and device accessories for medical and tech equipment. Founded in 1961 and based in Hauppauge, New York, Forward built a niche business supplying carrying solutions for items like diabetic glucose monitors, barcode scanners, tablets, and other portable devices coingecko.com marketbeat.com. It traditionally operated through two segments – an OEM segment and a design segment marketbeat.com. For decades, Forward remained a tiny micro-cap stock on NASDAQ, with annual revenues only in the low tens of millions and thin profit margins.
23 September 2025
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Applied Digital (APLD) Skyrockets on AI Deals – Is the Rally Sustainable?

Applied Digital (APLD) Skyrockets on AI Deals – Is the Rally Sustainable?

Applied Digital’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, dramatically outperforming the broader market. As of September 23, 2025, APLD traded around $24–25 per share, near its highest levels ever. In fact, the stock reached a new 12-month high of about $24.85 intraday on Sept 22-23 marketbeat.com. This represents a ~19% jump in a single day and capped off an extraordinary run: the share price climbed roughly +47% over a 10-day winning streak in mid-September markets.financialcontent.com. Year-to-date, APLD has now soared over 200% markets.financialcontent.com.
23 September 2025
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Micron’s AI-Fueled Q4 2025 Earnings Shatter Expectations, Stock Soars to New Highs

Micron’s AI-Fueled Q4 2025 Earnings Shatter Expectations, Stock Soars to New Highs

Micron delivered exceptional fourth-quarter results, capping off a record fiscal 2025. Revenue for the quarter came in at $11.32 billion, a 46% jump year-over-year and ahead of consensus estimates globelynews.com. This marks Micron’s highest quarterly sales ever, reflecting a sharp rebound from the memory downturn of the prior year. Earnings followed suit: Micron reported $3.03 in adjusted EPS, blowing past the ~$2.86 expected by analysts globelynews.com and far above the $1.18 EPS from the year-ago quarter. CEO Sanjay Mehrotra lauded the performance, stating “Micron closed out a record-breaking fiscal year with exceptional Q4 performance, underscoring our leadership in technology, products, and operational execution.” stocktitan.net The company’s full-year revenue reached $37.4 billion stocktitan.net, and Micron achieved all-time highs in its data center business as it capitalized on booming demand for advanced memory in AI applications stocktitan.net.
23 September 2025
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Quantum Leap: D-Wave (QBTS) Stock Skyrockets 2000% Amid Fed Rate Cuts and AI-Fueled Quantum Breakthroughs

Quantum Leap: D-Wave (QBTS) Stock Skyrockets 2000% Amid Fed Rate Cuts and AI-Fueled Quantum Breakthroughs

D-Wave’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, capped by a dramatic September rally. The share price exploded from the mid-teens in early September to over $26 by Sept 19, 2025, marking fresh record highs stockanalysis.com. In one week, QBTS rocketed 51.4% – a stunning move compared to the S&P 500’s ~1% gain that same week sharewise.com. On September 19 alone, the stock jumped nearly 12% to close at $26.88 nasdaq.com, and it briefly peaked intraday above $27 stockanalysis.com. Year-to-date, D-Wave shares were up roughly 170%, and an eye-popping +2000% versus a year ago investopedia.com – a 20-fold increase that turned heads even in 2025’s tech boom.
23 September 2025
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Rigetti Computing’s Quantum Leap: Stock Soars on Breakthroughs and Bold Bets

Rigetti Computing’s Quantum Leap: Stock Soars on Breakthroughs and Bold Bets

Rigetti’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, with its ascent accelerating dramatically in recent weeks. On September 22, shares reached an intraday high of $29.59, marking a fresh 52-week peak Marketbeat. This is a remarkable climb considering RGTI traded in the low-teens just a month prior. In fact, since late August, the stock has more than doubled, rising about 100% in under a month 247Wallst. Over a slightly longer span – mid-August to now – Rigetti is up roughly 85%, vaulting from around $12 to the high-$20s 247Wallst. Year-to-date, the gains are even more striking: TipRanks data showed RGTI up ~42% for 2025 before the latest spike Tipranks, and on a year-over-year basis the stock has skyrocketed by an almost unbelievable 3,300% 247Wallst. Such explosive growth hints that Rigetti may have been a heavily beaten-down name that caught fire as investor sentiment flipped to optimism on quantum computing.
23 September 2025
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Sony vs. Nintendo: The 2025 Showdown – Which Stock Is the Playtime Winner?

Sony vs. Nintendo: The 2025 Showdown – Which Stock Is the Playtime Winner?

Sony and Nintendo have been standout performers in the stock market through 2025. Nintendo’s share price has surged on optimism around its new console – the stock hit an all-time high in mid-August 2025 tradingview.com – and was up roughly 38–40% year-to-date by early autumn businessinsider.com. That run has added tens of billions to Nintendo’s market capitalization businessinsider.com. Sony’s stock has also climbed significantly, with about a +18.7% YTD total return by early September investing.com. In fact, by late September Sony’s U.S.-listed shares had roughly kept pace with Nintendo’s gains once currency effects are considered. Both stocks have outperformed Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index, reflecting renewed investor enthusiasm in the Japanese tech/entertainment sector.
23 September 2025
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Intel vs TSMC: The High-Stakes Chip Stock Showdown of 2025 and Beyond

Intel vs TSMC: The High-Stakes Chip Stock Showdown of 2025 and Beyond

Both stocks have given investors a positive ride in 2025, but Intel’s run has been notably explosive. As of Q3 2025, Intel shares have rallied roughly 45–50% since January tradingnews.com. Most of those gains came in a dramatic late-summer surge – in September 2025 Intel announced a landmark partnership with Nvidia, which sent the stock jumping over 30% in a single day ainvest.com ainvest.com. Intel hit a new 52-week high around $32 in mid-September, up about 83% from its 2025 low of ~$17 tradingnews.com. By contrast, TSMC has seen a steadier climb – the stock is up roughly 13% year-to-date as of mid-September benzinga.com. Over the past 12 months, TSMC is up a hefty ~42% benzinga.com, but in 2025 its gains have been more measured.
23 September 2025
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BigBear.ai Stock Soars Amid AI Boom – What’s Behind BBAI’s Wild 2025 Ride?

BigBear.ai Stock Soars Amid AI Boom – What’s Behind BBAI’s Wild 2025 Ride?

BigBear.ai’s stock has experienced extreme volatility in 2025, rallying sharply in the fall after a rocky summer. On September 23, 2025, BBAI surged in early trading – up over 11–13% at one point – after announcing its role in a high-profile Navy exercise stocktwits.com. The stock had closed the prior session at $7.08 stockinvest.us, capping an 8-day run of gains. Over the preceding two weeks, BBAI share price leapt by ~45% stockinvest.us, an unusually rapid rise that technical analysts noted is rarely sustained without at least a brief pullback. Indeed, intraday swings have been large – e.g. on Sept. 22 the stock ranged from a low of $6.31 to a high of $7.21 stockinvest.us.
23 September 2025
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AST SpaceMobile Stock Skyrockets on Satellite Breakthroughs and Big-Name Backing

AST SpaceMobile Stock Skyrockets on Satellite Breakthroughs and Big-Name Backing

AST SpaceMobile’s stock has been on a meteoric rise in 2025, turning heads on Wall Street. On September 23, 2025, ASTS jumped about 10% during the trading day, hovering in the mid-$50s per share investing.com. This spike brought the stock near its all-time highs and represented a dramatic climb from roughly $18 a year ago. By comparison, the S&P 500’s performance over the same period has been far more subdued, underlining ASTS’s outsized gains. Year-to-date, ASTS has more than doubled in value amid a wave of optimistic news investing.com. Such explosive growth has propelled AST SpaceMobile’s market capitalization to roughly $20 billion investing.com, a hefty valuation for a pre-revenue company.
23 September 2025
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Rocket Lab Stock Skyrockets 700% – Is RKLB Ready for Its Next Giant Leap?

Rocket Lab Stock Skyrockets 700% – Is RKLB Ready for Its Next Giant Leap?

Rocket Lab’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, massively outperforming the market. As of late September 2025, RKLB shares hover near $50 – a price level roughly 730% higher than a year ago ainvest.com. This meteoric rise reflects surging investor enthusiasm around Rocket Lab’s growth in launch services and space systems. Year-to-date, the stock was up about 75% by Q2 ainvest.com, and at one point in mid-September it had gained over 550% in 12 months tipranks.com.
23 September 2025
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Hideo Kojima’s New Xbox Horror ‘OD’ Trailer Is Giving P.T. Vibes – Everything We Know

Hideo Kojima’s New Xbox Horror ‘OD’ Trailer Is Giving P.T. Vibes – Everything We Know

Hideo Kojima’s foray back into horror with OD is a significant moment in gaming. Kojima, famous for the Metal Gear Solid series and the genre-defying Death Stranding, hasn’t released a horror game before – his last attempt, the much-hyped Silent Hills project with Konami, was canceled amid Kojima’s split from Konami windowscentral.com. The eerie P.T. demo became legendary for its psychological terror, and its cancellation left horror fans lamenting what could have been windowscentral.com. Now, a decade later, Kojima is effectively reviving that horror ambition with a new IP. He first revealed in 2022 that he was partnering with Xbox Game Studios on an innovative project leveraging cloud technology windowscentral.com. This project was code-named OD, and a brief concept teaser shown at The Game Awards 2023 introduced the title and cast without giving much away theverge.com.
23 September 2025
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Alphabet vs Meta 2025: AI Arms Race, Ad Revival, and Wall Street’s Verdict

Alphabet vs. Meta – 2025’s Ultimate Tech Stock Showdown: AI Gold Rush, Ad Revival & Future Outlook

After a volatile couple of years, 2025 has been a banner year for both tech giants’ stocks. Alphabet and Meta entered the year with modest momentum, but have since staged a record-setting rally. Meta’s stock price climbed roughly 30% year-to-date by late Q3, recently touching all-time highs interactivecrypto.com. Alphabet’s stock lagged early on – at one point in mid-2025 it was flat on the year – but a series of positive catalysts propelled it upward. As of September, Alphabet shares are up around 20–25% YTD reuters.com, recently hitting a record intraday high after a court ruling eased breakup fears. Notably, both stocks have outperformed the broader market in 2025, riding the wave of investor enthusiasm for AI-focused “Big Tech” names.
22 September 2025
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NIO vs BYD: The 2025 EV Stock Showdown – Which Chinese EV Giant Is the Better Buy?

NIO vs BYD: The 2025 EV Stock Showdown – Which Chinese EV Giant Is the Better Buy?

After a bruising 2022–2023 for Chinese EV stocks, 2025 has seen NIO and BYD follow very different trajectories so far. NIO’s share price started the year near multi-year lows but staged a remarkable rally in mid-2025. In July, NIO’s New York-listed stock surged ~40% within the month reuters.com, fueled by news of the company’s new mass-market models and a push to cut costs. This rebound was a bright spot for NIO investors, who had endured a prolonged slump. Even with that bounce, NIO’s stock was only back to roughly the mid-teens per share by late summer – still well below its all-time highs, but a sign of returning confidence.
22 September 2025
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Mystery, Rage & Record‑Breaking Horror: Why Silent Hill F Is Surprising Everyone

Mystery, Rage & Record‑Breaking Horror: Why Silent Hill F Is Surprising Everyone

For years, the Silent Hill series was dormant in a fog of uncertainty. The last mainline entries in the early 2010s had been met with mixed reception, and Konami’s iconic horror franchise went over a decade without a new chapter. Now Silent Hill f is being hailed as a spectacular comeback. It’s the first completely new Silent Hill game in years, not a remake but a fresh story – and critics say it “fully understands the appeal of the franchise” while taking bold risks northcountrypublicradio.org. This revival comes on the heels of last year’s well-received Silent Hill 2 remake, meaning Konami has delivered “two back-to-back Silent Hill bangers in less than a year” northcountrypublicradio.org – an impressive turnaround for a series many feared abandoned.
22 September 2025
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