Tech Industry News 27 September 2025

Meta’s $1.5B AI Hiring Spree: Will Zuckerberg’s Talent Grab Send META Stock Soaring & Shake Up Apple’s XR Plans?

Meta’s AI Talent Offensive Meta is doubling down on the AI arms race by snapping up top researchers. This month the company confirmed that Andrew Tulloch, the machine-learning specialist who co-founded Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, will join

15 October 2025

AI Chip Wars Explode: OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Frenzy Ignites Nvidia, AMD, Oracle Race

With headlines, chart-topping stock moves and even presidential interest (“AI infrastructure is economy of the future” reuters.com), this mad dash for AI chips has become must-see drama on Wall Street and Silicon Valley alike. Inside the Megadeals: OpenAI’s recent partnership

15 October 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Chipmakers · Investment · Semiconductors · Tech Industry

OpenAI’s DevDay Bombshells: No-Code AgentKit, ChatGPT App Store & Jony Ive’s AI Vision

OpenAI’s $1 Trillion AI Takeover: Why Silicon Valley Is in Awe—and on Edge

OpenAI’s Breakneck Ambition and $1 Trillion Power Play In 2025, OpenAI has moved from leading the AI research pack to redefining the tech industry’s power structure. The company’s recent deals are unprecedented in scale – Altman’s startup has lined up nearly $1 trillion worth

11 October 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Business Trends · NASDAQ:AMD · NASDAQ:NVDA · OpenAI · Silicon Valley · Tech Industry

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),

8 October 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Business News · Investment Trends · Semiconductor Market · Tech Industry

Figma Stock’s Post-IPO Rollercoaster: From $68 Billion Debut to Wild Drops – What’s Next for FIG?

Figma Stock’s Wild Ride – IPO Frenzy, 50% Plunge, and a ChatGPT-Fueled Comeback (Oct 2025 Update)

Stock Performance & Market Activity Figma’s stock has experienced extreme swings since its July 2025 IPO. The IPO itself was euphoric – priced at $33 per share, FIG opened at $85 and shot up to $122 within two days ts2.tech. This ~270% surge reflected

7 October 2025

AI Trends · IPO News · NYSE:FIG · Startups · Stock Market · Tech Industry

Robinhood (HOOD) Explodes 12% to Fresh Highs — Here’s What Lit the Fuse and What Comes Next (Sept 29, 2025)

Robinhood’s Stock Skyrockets 200% – S&P 500 Debut, Crypto Push & Outage Drama in 2025

Stock Performance & Key Market Data (Oct 6, 2025) Robinhood’s stock has been on a remarkable tear in 2025. As of October 6, HOOD traded around $147 per share, not far from its all-time highs beincrypto.com. The stock has nearly

6 October 2025

Cryptocurrency · Financial News · S&P 500 · Stock Market · Tech Industry

Nvidia’s Meteoric October: $4 Trillion Milestone, Mega AI Deals, and Unstoppable Momentum

Soaring Financials and a $4 Trillion Valuation Nvidia entered October 2025 riding an extraordinary financial high. The company’s Q2 FY2026 earnings (for the quarter ended July 27, 2025) showcased staggering growth: $46.7 billion in quarterly revenue – up 56% year-over-year

5 October 2025

AI Innovation · NASDAQ:NVDA · NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Stock Market · Tech Industry

Cipher Mining (CIFR) Skyrockets on Google-Backed AI Deal & Bitcoin Boom – What to Know Now

Google-Backed AI Deal Sends Cipher Mining (CIFR) Stock Soaring – Is $20 Next?

Stock Performance and Valuation Cipher’s stock has exploded higher in recent months. On Oct 2 it jumped +9.6% (high $14.44, close $13.81) on record volume (~56M, more than double normal) marketbeat.com. As of Oct 3 it trades near $14–$15. Its market cap is

3 October 2025

AI Technology · Cryptocurrency · Investment News · NASDAQ:CIFR · Stock Market · Tech Industry

Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Update & Insight Report – 2 Oct 2025

Microsoft’s Big AI Gamble: Nadella Hands Over Commercial Reins to Focus on Datacenters and AI — What It Means for Customers, Partners and Competitors

A Seismic Shift in Leadership Satya Nadella’s memo announcing the promotion of Judson Althoff to CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business reads like a mission statement for the AI era. Nadella describes the generational platform shift to artificial intelligence as “tectonic” and argues

2 October 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Business Strategy · Cloud Computing · Microsoft · NASDAQ:MSFT · Tech Industry

Meta’s $2B AI Chip Bet: Acquiring Rivos to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance?

Meta’s move to acquire Rivos comes amid a major push by Big Tech to own the chips that power AI. The Santa Clara–based startup Rivos is a “stealth” AI-chip developer whose founders include former Apple and AMD engineers reuters.com waldencatalyst.com.

30 September 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Business Strategy · Hardware Innovation · Semiconductors · Stock Market · Tech Industry

GPU Wars 2025: NVIDIA vs AMD vs Intel – The Ultimate Graphics Showdown

Nvidia’s AI Throne Under Siege? The 2030 Battle Plan From Broadcom, AMD—and a Surprise Challenger

Key facts (as of Sep 27, 2025) The in-depth report 1) The setup: AI compute demand keeps compounding Nvidia still commands the AI-accelerator market, but the demand curve (frontier model training, inference scale-out, and AI-enabled enterprise software) is so steep

27 September 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Future Trends · Market Competition · Semiconductors · Tech Industry

Nasdaq’s Wild Week: AI Mega-Deal Hype, Tariff Turmoil, and Tech Titans on Edge

Key Facts: Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq-100 Snap Winning Streak After charging to all-time highs on Monday, U.S. tech stocks hit some turbulence to end the week. The Nasdaq Composite Index gained +0.44% on Friday (about +99 points) to close around

27 September 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Market Trends · Nasdaq · NASDAQ:AAPL · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:META · NASDAQ:MSFT · Tariff News · Tech Industry

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