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Technology News 24 October 2025 - 25 October 2025

Apple Stock Hits New Heights: iPhone 17 Supercycle, Analyst Split, and 2025 Outlook Revealed

Apple’s October 2025 Shockers: iPhone 17 Supercycle, M5 Chip Debut, and AAPL Nears $4 Trillion

AAPL Stock Soars to Record Highs in October Apple’s stock enjoyed a robust rally in October 2025, reaching record highs after a choppy start to the year. Shares began the month in the mid-$240sts2.tech, then climbed steadily on optimism around new products and iPhone sales. By October 20, AAPL hit $262+ per share, breaking its previous peak and valuing Apple at roughly $3.9 trillionreuters.comreuters.com. The stock closed around $252 on Oct. 17 and then surged ~4% on Oct. 20 alone after upbeat iPhone data, marking Apple’s first record high of 2025bloomberg.com. It even notched an intraday high near $265 the next day, flirting with
25 October 2025
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Meta’s AI Revolution Unleashed: July 2025 Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash

Meta’s October 2025 Shockwave: AI Gambits, Sky-High Stock & Bold New Bet$ Unveiled

Major News and Moves in October 2025 AI Talent: Poaching Spree Meets a Reality Check Meta kicked off October with bold moves in the AI talent arms race. The company confirmed it had wooed Andrew Tulloch – co-founder of a prominent AI startup – to join Meta’s AI research teamts2.tech. Unofficial reports put Tulloch’s pay package as high as $1.5 billion over six years, including salary, stock, and bonusests2.tech. This eye-popping offer exemplified Zuckerberg’s “win at all costs” approach to AI: he reportedly courted at least a dozen engineers from the same startup after its CEO (Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO)
25 October 2025
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Spotify’s Hi‑Res Lossless Streaming Is Finally Here – How It Compares to Apple Music and Amazon Music HD

Spotify Stock Skyrockets After CEO Shake-Up and Bold New Moves

Key Facts: Spotify founder Daniel Ek will step down as CEO on Jan 1, 2026 (becoming Executive Chairman) with Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström named co-CEOsreuters.com. The news briefly knocked the stock ~5% lower, after a year-to-date gain of over 60%reuters.com. In September, Spotify raised its Premium price to €11.99 (from €10.99) in many markets – a change that sent shares up ~8% on the announcementts2.tech. Subscriber counts remain high: in Q1 2025 premium members were up 12% to 268 million, with ~678 million monthly active usersreuters.com. New initiatives include a “Lossless” hi-fi audio tier launched in Sept (free for
25 October 2025
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Unusual Machines Stock Explodes on Big Drone Orders: Here’s What Investors Need to Know

Unusual Machines Stock Explodes on Big Drone Orders: Here’s What Investors Need to Know

Unusual Machines’ recent stock surge reflects a defense-driven narrative. Investors are placing big bets on U.S. policies favoring domestic drone suppliers. As one analyst noted, the new $12.8M Army contract is “the largest order to date” for UMAC and confirms accelerating demand for American-made attritable drones investorsobserver.com. Needham & Co. kept their Buy rating and lifted their 12-month target to $20 on this news investorsobserver.com, and other forecasters see mid-teens price targets (around $18–20) as a near-term goal stockanalysis.com public.com. In practical terms, the market has taken note of these developments. UMAC’s price action this week – a double-digit gain
25 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 Rockets on AI Mega-Deals – $300 Target Now in Sight

Market Performance & Stock Price Advanced Micro Devices has been one of 2025’s hottest stocks. After languishing around $150–160 through mid-summer, AMD’s share price exploded higher on the AI hype. On Oct. 6 – the day AMD revealed the OpenAI deal – the stock spiked ~34% intraday, instantly adding tens of billions in market valuereuters.comts2.tech. It briefly hit a record $238 intraday on Oct. 15, then consolidated around $230–240 for a week. A surprise news on Oct. 24 (IBM reported running a quantum algorithm on an AMD chip) sent AMD soaring again – shares jumped ~7–8% that day to a
25 October 2025
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Intel Stock Skyrockets on $15B AI Lifeline and U.S. Stake – Can Rally Continue?

Intel Stock Skyrockets on $15B AI Lifeline and U.S. Stake – Can Rally Continue?

Stock Performance and Recent Trends Intel’s share price has been volatile but rising sharply. After stalling near a 52-week high around $39.65 in mid-October, INTC closed at ~$38.2 on Oct. 23 ts2.tech. That day’s +3.4% jump brought the year-to-date gain to ~85–90% ts2.tech ts2.tech. Traders note an October “golden cross” (50-day moving average crossing the 200-day up), a bullish technical signal ts2.tech – though momentum indicators (like RSI) warn the rally may be overextended. Over the last month, the stock has pulled back about 10% from its early-October peak, but buyers have defended the mid-$30s as support ts2.tech. Internally, Intel has
25 October 2025
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IBM Stock Soars 28%: AI & Cloud Breakthroughs Fuel Historic Rally

Quantum Breakthrough Sends IBM Stock Soaring — Can the Rally Last?

IBM’s Oct. 22 earnings beat raised hopes. The company reported $16.3B in Q3 revenue, up 9% from a year agonewsroom.ibm.com, driven by double-digit gains in high-end hardware and AI software. CEO Arvind Krishna said innovation and investments are paying off. CFO James Kavanaugh noted “new innovation, the strength and diversity of our portfolio, and our disciplined execution” fueled double-digit EBITDA growth and strong free cash flownewsroom.ibm.com. IBM delivered Non-GAAP EPS of $2.65, well above the $2.45 analysts expected (an 11% YoY increasenewsroom.ibm.com). All segments grew: software (inc. hybrid cloud/Red Hat) +10%, consulting +3%, infrastructure (AI mainframes & IBM Z) +17%newsroom.ibm.comnewsroom.ibm.com.
25 October 2025
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Luminar (LAZR) Stock Surges on Lidar Hype – Volvo & NVIDIA Deals Ignite Investor Interest

Luminar (LAZR) Stock Surges on Lidar Hype – Volvo & NVIDIA Deals Ignite Investor Interest

Stock Movement and Recent Headlines Luminar’s stock has been volatile, with recent sessions mixed as the market digests industry news and the firm’s performance. On Oct. 24, LAZR traded on elevated volume as investors awaited its upcoming quarterly update. During the week, news that Luminar will report Q3 figures on Nov. 13businesswire.com kept shareholders attentive. No major deals were announced on Oct. 24 itself, but analysts are closely watching the company’s execution on existing partnerships and product milestones. Industry reports note that Luminar is closely involved with Volvo, Mercedes, NVIDIA and Mobileye, which adds to investor buzzbusinesswire.com. Q2 Financials and
24 October 2025
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Trump’s $300M White House Ballroom: Tech Titans Among Donors, East Wing Demolished

Trump’s $300M White House Ballroom: Tech Titans Among Donors, East Wing Demolished

Donald Trump’s plan has set off a flurry of activity in Washington. The White House has confirmed demolition of the East Wing is complete, and construction will proceed under private fundingabcnews.go.com. Trump personally hosted a thank‑you dinner in the East Room for the donors – which included executives from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta and othersindependent.co.ukabcnews.go.com – underscoring the political significance of the project. In a public statement, Trump declared: “For 150 years-plus they’ve wanted to have a ballroom…and it never happened because they’ve never had a real estate person”independent.co.uk. He later reiterated that the expansion will not touch the
24 October 2025
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Palantir (PLTR) Stock Soars on AI Hype – Is It a Bubble or the Next Tech Giant?

Palantir (PLTR) Stock Skyrockets on AI Boom – What Investors Need to Know

Market Action & Stock Performance Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has been among the most-watched tech stocks in late October 2025, as investors chase AI-related growth stories. Over the past week, PLTR shares jumped sharply on the back of a broad market upswing. Cooler-than-expected consumer prices helped calm Federal Reserve rate-hike worriesreuters.com. On Oct. 24, for example, the Nasdaq Composite surged +1.14%, propelling the S&P 500 to a fresh record highreuters.com. Palantir rode this wave: its stock traded near the top of its recent range, with volume picking up as buyers piled in. In the very short term, PLTR’s intraday moves have
24 October 2025
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Broadcom’s AI Windfall: Inside AVGO’s Trillion-Dollar Surge, $10B Chip Deal & 2025 Outlook

Broadcom (AVGO) Stock Skyrockets on $10B OpenAI AI Chip Deal — Are $450 Targets Next?

Broadcom’s stock has soared in recent days as the chipmaker emerges as a central player in the booming AI industry. On Friday, Oct. 24, the shares were trading in the mid-$350s – about double their level a year earlier – and were up around 3–4% on the dayinvesting.com. The recent jump follows a series of bullish developments for AVGO. Notably, Broadcom announced an $10 billion AI chip deal with OpenAI on Oct. 13. Under this partnership, Broadcom will co-design 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerator chips for OpenAI over the next few yearsts2.tech. Investors cheered the news: the stock spiked roughly
24 October 2025
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Apple Stock Hits New Heights: iPhone 17 Supercycle, Analyst Split, and 2025 Outlook Revealed

Apple (AAPL) Stock Rockets to Record High on iPhone 17 Hype — What’s Next?

Near-Term Move: Riding the Rally Apple shares have been volatile but are trading very near record levels. On Oct. 20, investors bid the stock up sharply – by the close it was ~$262 (intraday as high as ~$264)ts2.tech. Since then the stock has pulled back a bit to the high-$250s. By the end of Oct. 23, AAPL was around $259.58marketbeat.com (up only a few cents on the week). For context, Apple’s stock is up only a few percent in 2025, far less than peer tech giants (e.g. Nvidia +35%, Microsoft +23% YTDts2.tech). That modest gain reflects Apple’s already lofty valuation. Technically, Apple
24 October 2025
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Stock Market Today

Prudential plc share price ends week higher as PRU buyback and BoE rate bets shape the next move

Prudential plc share price ends week higher as PRU buyback and BoE rate bets shape the next move

7 February 2026
London, Feb 7, 2026, 09:27 (GMT) — Market closed. Prudential plc shares (PRU.L) closed 0.5% higher on Friday at about 1,182 pence, trimming the previous day’s losses as the insurer stayed active in the market with stock repurchases. With the London market shut for the weekend, traders now head into Monday with rates and buybacks back on the checklist. (Hargreaves Lansdown) The near-term push and pull is coming from the interest-rate story, which has shifted again since the Bank of England’s latest signals and survey reads. A BoE market participants survey released on Friday showed expectations for the policy rate
Meta stock faces an AI split: ad gains vs a $135 billion bill

Meta stock faces an AI split: ad gains vs a $135 billion bill

7 February 2026
Meta shares dropped 1.3% to $661.46 on Friday after the company projected 2026 capital spending of up to $135 billion, raising investor concerns over cash flow. Meta reported Q4 revenue of $59.89 billion, up 24% year-over-year, with ad impressions rising 18%. Analysts remain divided on whether AI-driven ad gains can offset the steep spending ramp.
IAG share price jumps toward a 52-week peak — what to watch before London reopens

IAG share price jumps toward a 52-week peak — what to watch before London reopens

7 February 2026
IAG shares rose 4.33% to 438.50 pence Friday, near their 52-week high, ahead of full-year results due later this month. The company reported 162,073,135 treasury shares and total voting rights of 4,565,128,012. Brent crude fell 2.2% Thursday to $67.93 a barrel. South Europe Ground Services logged 712,340 operations in 2025 and seeks approval to operate in Portugal.
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