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Technology News 16 October 2025 - 17 October 2025

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 billionts2.tech, a staggering figure considering its nascent revenue. Investors have piled into ASTS on the promise that it could revolutionize mobile connectivityts2.techts2.tech. Social media forums show retail traders “extremely bullish” on ASTS, which became a trending ticker on Stocktwits as shares rocketed upwardts2.tech. However, the stock’s volatile swings also hint at speculative fervor: after peaking mid-week, ASTS briefly pulled back by ~6% on profit-takingts2.tech, demonstrating that even
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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 ~$256ts2.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 Google’s
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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
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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 billioneconomictimes.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 saleseconomictimes.indiatimes.comeconomictimes.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 earningseconomictimes.indiatimes.com. CEO C.C. Wei echoed this, saying recent AI developments
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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
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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 agomarkets.financialcontent.com. The stock closed at a record $56.34 on October 15, 2025macrotrends.net – its highest ever – before settling just below that level. In the span of a few trading days, Rigetti jumped from
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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 boomfinviz.com. For context, Navitas has vastly outperformed the
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AMD’s AI Mega-Deal Sparks Stock Surge – Inside the OpenAI Partnership, New Chips & Showdown with Rivals

AMD Stock Skyrockets on AI Mega-Deals — Is $300 Next?

AMD’s exhibition stand at Gamescom 2022. AMD has been aggressively showcasing new AI infrastructure (like the “Helios” rack platform) and forging partnerships across the industry. As a result, AMD stock has raced higher this month – on Oct. 15 it hit a 52-week intraday high of $240.48 and closed around $238.7marketbeat.com, up over 8% that day. In the past week, the catalyst was two major AI deals. On Oct. 6, AMD announced a multi-year agreement with OpenAI: the chipmaker will supply six gigawatts of high-performance Instinct GPUs to OpenAI’s training data centers, and OpenAI received warrants to buy up to
16 October 2025
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Kyivstar (NASDAQ: KYIV) Stock Rockets on 5G Upgrade Plans and Mastercard Tie-Up

Kyivstar (NASDAQ: KYIV) Stock Rockets on 5G Upgrade Plans and Mastercard Tie-Up

Company News and Stock Movement Kyivstar’s share price has been volatile since its historic Nasdaq debut. In August, the IPO raised $178 million (out of a $200M target)reuters.com, valuing the company around $2.6 billion. Initial trading saw a sharp swing: the stock opened around $13–14, then peaked at nearly $16 on Aug. 20 before sliding. By mid-September it had fallen to about $11.25kyivpost.com. ICU Investment Group trader Vitaliy Syvach commented that “after the initial excitement came a more sober assessment” of Kyivstar’s growth prospectskyivpost.com. Indeed, some profit-taking and broader market volatility dampened the early rally. However, new corporate initiatives in October have
16 October 2025
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Billionaire-Backed Crypto Bank Approved by Regulators – Are Tech Stocks and Crypto Ready to Soar?

Billionaire-Backed Crypto Bank Approved by Regulators – Are Tech Stocks and Crypto Ready to Soar?

OCC Approval Details The OCC’s approval letter makes Erebor the first new charter since Gould took over in June 2025benzinga.com. In announcing the decision, Gould stressed that innovative banks need not be blocked: “Permissible digital asset activities… have a place in the federal banking system if conducted in a safe and sound manner,” he saidbenzinga.com. This is a notable change of tone from prior OCC leadership. As Benzinga reports, the OCC applied its usual rigorous standards but ultimately concluded Erebor’s plan was sound, making it “the first de novo bank to receive preliminary approval under Gould’s tenure”benzinga.com. Despite the approval,
16 October 2025
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Oracle Stock Surges on $300B AI Cloud Deal – Is a Trillion-Dollar Valuation Next?

Oracle Stock Surges on $300B AI Cloud Deal – Is a Trillion-Dollar Valuation Next?

Oracle Stock Today As of Oct. 16, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) is trading near $304 per share. Investing.com data show ORCL closed at $303.98 on Oct. 16 (up 0.12% for the day)investing.com. This comes after a volatile week: the stock hit an all-time intraday high (~$345.69) on Sept. 10ts2.tech following the AI cloud deal announcements, then pulled back 15–20% by early October on profit-taking and margin concernsts2.techts2.tech. Overall, ORCL is up roughly 70% year-to-date, far outperforming the broader tech sector and even leaving Microsoft and Alphabet in the dustts2.tech. Even mid-month blips (like a 6% drop in early October after a
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Polestar Stock Skyrockets on Strong EV Sales and New Tech – What’s Next?

Polestar Stock Skyrockets on Strong EV Sales and New Tech – What’s Next?

Recent Stock Performance Polestar’s stock has been volatile in October 2025. After Q3 sales news on Oct. 9, PSNY climbed modestly (Reuters noted a ~+2% premarket risereuters.com), ending around $0.91 on Oct 15. By Oct 16 it was about $0.94investing.com. In contrast, the PSNYW warrants (which had languished at ~$0.20) saw a huge rally to ~$0.35 on Oct 16investing.com. Such warrant spikes often reflect speculative trading and have no immediate impact on company fundamentals, but they signal intense investor interest. StockAnalysis.com confirms PSNYW’s day gain of +76.6% to $0.36 on Oct 16stockanalysis.com. (PSNYW trading is thin and can move wildly.)
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Stock Market Today

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
Seagate shares rose 5.9% to $429.32 Friday after Citigroup raised its price target to $480 and reiterated a buy rating. The gain ended a two-day slide but left the stock 6.6% below its Feb. 3 high. CEO Dave Mosley sold 20,000 shares on Feb. 2 under a pre-arranged plan, SEC filings show. U.S. jobs and inflation data next week are seen as key tests for tech stocks.
Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

7 February 2026
Cummins shares jumped 6.8% to $577.73 Friday, recovering from a nearly 9% post-earnings drop the day before. The company reported Q4 revenue up 1% to $8.54 billion, took a $218 million charge tied to its hydrogen business, and guided for 2026 EBITDA of 17–18% of sales. Demand for data center generators offset weakness in North American truck markets. Analyst reaction was mixed; Truist raised its price target.
Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

7 February 2026
Corning shares surged 8.3% to $122.16 Friday, their highest close since the dot-com era, after Meta agreed to buy up to $6 billion in fiber-optic cables. The stock is up 40% since late 2025, fueled by strong first-quarter guidance and AI data-center demand. Insiders sold shares following the rally, SEC filings show. Investors await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data for rate signals.
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