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Technology News 16 October 2025 - 17 October 2025

Cisco’s $2B AI Windfall: New Tech, Stock Surge & What’s Next for CSCO

Cisco Rides AI Wave as Stock Nears Year-High – What’s Next for CSCO?

CSCO Stock Near 2025 Highs After Steady Climb Cisco’s stock is trading at $69 as of Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, putting it just a few dollars shy of its 1-year peak marketbeat.com. This marks a strong run for the networking giant – shares have risen about 30% over the past year, easily outperforming the broader market. In the week leading up to Oct. 17, CSCO gained roughly 2%, reflecting optimism around the company’s recent announcements and financial results. The stock’s 12-month high is $72.55 and the low is $52.11 marketbeat.com, so current prices indicate investors have driven the stock toward
17 October 2025
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VirnetX Stock Soars 71% on Major Government Contract – What’s Next for VHC?

VirnetX Stock Soars 71% on Major Government Contract – What’s Next for VHC?

Major Government Contract Sends VHC Soaring VirnetX shocked the market with an eye-popping rally on October 17, 2025, after unveiling a significant government deal. The Nevada-based cybersecurity firm announced it won a General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule contract late Thursday, and by Friday’s open the stock exploded upward stocktwits.com. Shares opened 71% higher and briefly touched a level not seen in over two years stocktwits.com. The exuberance was directly tied to the GSA news, which investors interpreted as a game-changer for VirnetX’s federal business prospects. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule is essentially a pre-approved vendor list and purchasing
17 October 2025
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OpenAI’s AMD Mega-Deal Sparks an AI “Mega-Blob” – 6GW of Chips, a 10% Stake, and a $100B Bet

AMD Stock Surges After AI Mega-Deals With OpenAI and Oracle – Could $300 Be Next?

Stock Hits Highs on AI Hype Advanced Micro Devices’ stock has been on fire in October 2025, reaching its highest levels in over a year. On Wednesday, Oct. 15, AMD surged over 8% and touched an intraday peak around $240.48, a new 52-week high ts2.tech. It closed that day near $238.7, capping roughly an 80% year-to-date gain for the chipmaker’s shares ts2.tech. By comparison, chief rival Nvidia’s stock is up about 40% in 2025, and Intel’s is flat-to-moderately higher after a rough 2024 ts2.tech. AMD’s market capitalization now sits around $350 billion, putting it in the upper echelon of chipmakers by
17 October 2025
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Amazon Stock Today: AI Ambitions, $2.5B Twist, and $3 Trillion Dreams

Amazon Stock Rebound Stalls: AI Ambitions, $2.5B Settlement & the $3 Trillion Question

Stock Price & Recent Performance Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has seen choppy trading in recent days. The stock fell sharply by about 5% on Oct. 13 amid a broader tech sell-off tied to renewed U.S.–China trade tensions ts2.tech. After closing around $227 last week, shares dipped to the mid-$210s before stabilizing. Over the past week, AMZN oscillated roughly between $216 and $228 – holding above a support level near ~$215 but unable to break through resistance in the mid-$220s ts2.tech. Traders noted the stock recently “rebounded off” those support levels as Amazon’s expansion announcements buoyed sentiment, though it remains below
17 October 2025
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Apple’s July 2025 Bombshells: Foldable iPhone, AI Secrets, Encryption Showdown & More

Apple Stock Surges on New Products and iPhone 17 “Supercycle” – Analysts Split on AAPL’s Next Move

AAPL Stock Update: Near Highs After Volatile Week Apple’s stock is trading near record levels as of October 17, 2025, after navigating a volatile stretch in global markets. Shares oscillated around the mid-$240s this week – just a few dollars below Apple’s all-time intraday high (~$260) set in late September ts2.tech. On Wednesday Oct. 15, AAPL briefly rallied (+0.6%) on news of Apple’s latest chip launch, before slipping ~0.9% on Thursday amid some profit-taking ts2.tech ts2.tech. As of midday Friday, the stock was little changed, holding above both its 50- and 200-day moving averages – a sign of positive momentum
17 October 2025
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AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) Stock Skyrockets on Verizon Deal – Is Satellite-to-Phone Broadband the Next Big Thing?

AST SpaceMobile Stock Shoots for the Stars on Verizon Deal – What’s Next for ASTS?

ASTS Stock Skyrockets on Space Breakthroughs Such meteoric gains have made AST SpaceMobile a market darling of 2025. The company – which went public via SPAC in 2021 – is now valued near $30 billion ts2.tech, a staggering figure considering its nascent revenue. Investors have piled into ASTS on the promise that it could revolutionize mobile connectivity ts2.tech ts2.tech. Social media forums show retail traders “extremely bullish” on ASTS, which became a trending ticker on Stocktwits as shares rocketed upward ts2.tech. However, the stock’s volatile swings also hint at speculative fervor: after peaking mid-week, ASTS briefly pulled back by ~6% on
17 October 2025
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The $350B Shake-Up: How AI Summaries Rewire Publisher Traffic

Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock Soars on AI Boom & Ad Rebound – $3 Trillion Valuation in Sight?

GOOGL Stock Nears Record High on Rally Momentum The Google logo at the company’s headquarters. Alphabet’s stock has been flirting with record highs amid surging optimism in its core ads and AI businesses.Alphabet Inc.’s Class A shares (NASDAQ: GOOGL) have been on a tear this year, recently touching their highest levels in over a year. The stock closed at $251.03 on Oct. 16 – around a new 52-week peak of ~$256 ts2.tech – after jumping about 2% that day. As of Oct. 17, GOOGL traded just above $251, holding near that high-water mark. At these prices, Alphabet’s market value is roughly $2.97 trillion, putting
17 October 2025
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Google Pounces on Microsoft 365 Outages With Bold ‘Backup Plan’ to Lure Businesses

Google Pounces on Microsoft 365 Outages With Bold ‘Backup Plan’ to Lure Businesses

Google Offers a Lifeline as Microsoft Stumbles Google’s announcement comes at an opportune moment. In recent months, Microsoft 365 has suffered a string of outages and technical glitches that have frustrated corporate customers channelnews.com.au. Just last week on October 8, an authentication issue knocked out Exchange Online email access for many users, one of several incidents that have hit Microsoft’s cloud services this year. Such disruptions “underscore the dependence on Microsoft’s cloud – and the chaos when it hiccups,” as one report put it ts2.tech. Sensing an opening, Google is seizing the narrative: downtime isn’t an occasional blip but an
17 October 2025
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TSMC Stock Surges on AI Boom and U.S. Expansion: What to Know on Sep 23, 2025

TSMC Stock Rockets on AI Boom: Record Profit and $1T Valuation Stun Markets

Record Q3 Results Drive Rally TSMC’s latest earnings confirmed the AI-driven boom in semiconductors. July–September revenue jumped to NT$989.9 billion (≈$32.5 billion) reuters.com, about 30% above last year, and net income hit NT$452.3 billion economictimes.indiatimes.com – both well above analysts’ estimates. High-performance computing (HPC) chips – used in AI servers – dominated the quarter, with the HPC unit accounting for roughly 57% of sales economictimes.indiatimes.com economictimes.indiatimes.com. Counterpoint Research analyst William Li commented that the “strong traction at 3nm as well as high utilization at 4/5nm” from orders by AI GPU and data-center customers directly drove these robust earnings economictimes.indiatimes.com. CEO C.C. Wei echoed
17 October 2025
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Micron (MU) Stock Skyrockets to Record High on AI Frenzy – Analysts See More Upside

Micron (MU) Stock Skyrockets to Record High on AI Frenzy – Analysts See More Upside

AI Boom Lifts Micron to Record Highs Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) is on a tear as investors pile into AI-focused semiconductor stocks. Shares of Micron jumped about 5.5% on Thursday to $204+ intraday, notching a fresh 52-week high (recent peak $206.34) marketbeat.com investing.com. Even on a down day for the broader market, Micron was among the top gainers in the S&P 500, boosted by bullish analyst calls investopedia.com investopedia.com. The stock has now more than doubled year-to-date, vastly outperforming the tech sector, after starting the year near multi-year lows. (Micron’s 52-week low was just $61.54 marketbeat.com.) Its market capitalization has
17 October 2025
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Quantum Rocket or Bubble? RGTI’s Stunning Surge Explained—And How It Stacks Up to IonQ, D‑Wave, and QUBT

Rigetti’s Quantum Leap: Stock Skyrockets 5,000% Amid Deals & Hype – Bubble or Breakthrough?

Stock Price Skyrockets to Record High Rigetti Computing’s stock has exploded in 2025, reaching new highs as investors bet big on quantum computing. Rigetti’s share price has soared exponentially this year, reflecting frenzy around pure-play quantum computing stocks. At the start of 2025, RGTI traded under $1; by mid-October it rocketed into the mid-$50s, marking a +259% year-to-date gain and roughly 50-fold increase from a year ago markets.financialcontent.com. The stock closed at a record $56.34 on October 15, 2025 macrotrends.net – its highest ever – before settling just below that level. In the span of a few trading days, Rigetti
16 October 2025
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Up 150% YTD: Navitas Semiconductor (NVTS) Rides the GaN Power Wave into AI’s Future

Navitas (NVTS) Stock Hits All-Time High on NVIDIA AI Chip News – Will the Rally Continue?

Stock Soars to Record High on AI News Navitas shares have been on a tear in mid-October, riding a wave of AI enthusiasm. The stock closed at $15.63 on Oct. 16 (up +3.1% for the day) marketbeat.com, marking its fifth straight daily gain and a new all-time high. In the span of a week, NVTS nearly doubled in price, skyrocketing from the ~$8 level to the mid-$15s. This explosive move caps a year of extraordinary gains – over 330% year-to-date – amid intense investor interest in any company tied to the AI hardware boom finviz.com. For context, Navitas has vastly
16 October 2025
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