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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Akamai Technologies, Genius Sports, People Inc & more

Cnbc · · 441 words · By Ananya Chetia; Fred Imbert
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What to know about Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Akamai Technologies, Genius Sports, People Inc & more

Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Akamai Technologies — Shares gained 5% after the cloud computing company announced a seven-year contract and $11.6 billion deal with Anthropic on Thursday.

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What happened

Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Akamai Technologies — Shares gained 5% after the cloud computing company announced a seven-year contract and $11.6 billion deal with Anthropic on Thursday.

Why it matters

Akamai also issued a warrant that gives Anthropic the right to buy up to roughly 5% of the company's shares at an exercise price of $111.33 each.

Common ground

Atlas Energy Solutions — The oilfield and energy logistics stock rallied 17% after the company said that two of its subsidiaries "executed separate cost reimbursement agreements with a leading frontier AI lab." Genius Sports — The sports data and technology…

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Claim 1: “Scholastic reported an adjusted loss of $3.63 per share, compared with the $2.52 per share loss in the year-ago period.”
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Claim 2: “Akamai Technologies — Shares gained 5% after the cloud computing company announced a seven-year contract and $11.6 billion deal with Anthropic on Thursday.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm Akamai signed a $11.6 billion, seven-year cloud deal with Anthropic and that shares rose as a result.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. ( PAL-ən-TEER) is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics software. Palantir is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and was founded in …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amazon.com, Inc. (doing business as Amazon) is an American multinational conglomerate engaged in e-commerce, retail, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment, and artifici…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC (stylized as ANTHROP\C or A\) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship product is Claude, a series…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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Claim 3: “Revenue of $216.8 million reflected a 4% decline from a year earlier.”
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Claim 4: “Microsoft — Shares perked up 3% after the software giant rolled out a refreshed Copilot app”
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Claim 5: “The news comes after People withdrew its proposal to buy the casino operator.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that People Inc. withdrew its proposal to acquire MGM Resorts.
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web search NEUTRAL — MGM Resorts International will remain a standalone company after Barry Diller-owned media conglomerate People Incorporated withdrew its proposal to acquire the resort operator this week, according to …
https://www.hoteldive.com/news/people-inc-drops-bid-to-acqui…
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web search NEUTRAL — People Inc. withdraws proposal to buy out MGM Resorts.People Incorporated (NasdaqGS : PPLI) and other investor cancelled the acquisition of 73.9% stake in MGM Resorts International. Yesterday. Save fo…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Barry Diller’s People Inc. has withdrawn its proposal to acquire MGM Resorts International in a potential deal that had been valued at roughly $18 billion. The company, formerly known as IAC, holds a …
https://skift.com/2026/09/23/barry-diller-withdraw-mgm-resor…
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Claim 6: “Analysts polled by LSEG expected a profit of $6.53 per share on revenue of $94.86 billion.”
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Claim 7: “The stock is on track for a 12% weekly gain powered by the booming popularity of its consumer artificial intelligence product Muse.”
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Claim 8: “Meta Platforms — Shares of the Facebook and WhatsApp owner tumbled more than 3%”
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Claim 9: “People Inc . — Barry Diller's company, which also owns Food & Wine and Southern Living magazines, saw shares jump 10%.”
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Wikipedia and web sources confirm People Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith) is owned by Barry Diller's conglomerate and owns Food & Wine and Southern Living. The 10% jump is mentioned in the context of the company's performance.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — People Incorporated is an American conglomerate that owns People Inc. and The Daily Beast. It is also a major shareholder of MGM Resorts International (26.1%) and Turo (31%). The company was founded i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dara Khosrowshahi (Persian: دارا خسروشاهی, Persian pronunciation: [dɑː'ɾɑː xosɾo'ʃɑːhiː]; born May 28, 1969) is an Iranian and American business executive who is the chief executive officer of Uber. H…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — People Inc. (formerly The Mining Company, About.com, Dotdash, and Dotdash Meredith) is an American digital media company based in New York City. Owned by People Incorporated, it publishes online artic…
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Claim 10: “Late Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported , citing people familiar, that MGM Resorts is weighing a bid to purchase the publishing giant.”
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Multiple sources confirm that The Wall Street Journal reported MGM Resorts is considering a bid to purchase Barry Diller's People Inc.
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web search NEUTRAL — MGM Resorts International is considering making a bid to acquire Barry Diller's People Incorporated, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move comes a day after the publisher withdrew a takeover …
https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/mgm-resorts-considering-bi…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that MGM is discussing a possible offer for Barry Diller’s People Inc., which already owns about 27% of the casino operator an…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Journal reported in July that MGM had set up a board committee and engaged advisers to consider Diller's offer, but believed that it undervalued the company. People Inc. has built up a 26% stake i…
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mgm-resorts-slides-on-wsj-…
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Claim 11: “Costco earned an adjusted $6.60 per share on revenue of $95.72 billion.”
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Claim 12: “Atlas Energy Solutions — The oilfield and energy logistics stock rallied 17% after the company said that two of its subsidiaries "executed separate cost reimbursement agreements with a leading frontier AI lab."”
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Multiple sources confirm Atlas Energy Solutions entered cost reimbursement agreements with a frontier AI lab and that the stock rose sharply (though one source specifies 'nearly 14%' rather than '17%').
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops "frontier" generative AI models, particularly its generative…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI agent is an artificial intelligence program that can make decisions, pursue goals, and take actions independently on human programmers. Agentic AI contrasts with tool-like AI use for narrow, spe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is an American domiciled Indian multinational information technology services and outsourcing company, headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. It was originall…
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Claim 13: “Genius Sports — The sports data and technology stock jumped 13% after JPMorgan initiated coverage with an overweight rating .”
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Multiple sources confirm JPMorgan initiated coverage of Genius Sports with an overweight rating and that shares rallied (though the exact percentage varies between 10% and 13% across sources).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fox Sports Networks (FSN), formerly known as Fox Sports Net, was the collective name for a group of regional sports channels in the United States. Formed in 1996 by News Corporation, the networks were…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was…
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Claim 14: “Scholastic — Shares of the publisher of children's books slid 9% after the company posted a loss in the fiscal first quarter.”
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No evidence was provided regarding Scholastic's fiscal first quarter loss or share price movement.
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Claim 15: “Twilio — The cloud platform provider with a focus on marketing saw shares tumble about 6%. HSBC slashed its rating to a sell equivalent.”
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One source confirms HSBC analyst Stephen Bersey downgraded Twilio from Hold to Reduce, but the specific 6% drop is not explicitly corroborated by the provided search results, which mention a 1.9% slip in pre-open trading.
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web search NEUTRAL — Investing.com -- Twilio stock slipped 1.9% in pre-open trading after HSBC analyst Stephen Bersey issued a downgrade from Hold to Reduce, attaching a $211 price target that implies meaningful downside …
https://in.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/why-is-twili…
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web search NEUTRAL — Shares of customer engagement platform Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) jumped 5.5% in the afternoon session after JPMorgan Chase raised its price target on the stock and continuing institutional demand from its ad…
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/twilio-twl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Shares of global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly NYSE:LLYjumped 4.7% in the afternoon session after the FDA approved Foundayo (orforglipron), its highly anticipated once-daily oral weight loss pill. …
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Claim 16: “Costco Wholesale — Shares were up 2.7% after the company reported better-than-expected results for the fiscal fourth quarter.”
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Claim 17: “MGM last traded lower by 2%.”
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Claim 18: “Akamai also issued a warrant that gives Anthropic the right to buy up to roughly 5% of the company's shares at an exercise price of $111.33 each.”
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The specific details of the warrant (5% of shares, exercise price of $111.33) are confirmed by CNBC and multiple other web search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amazon.com, Inc. (doing business as Amazon) is an American multinational conglomerate engaged in e-commerce, retail, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment, and artifici…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC (stylized as ANTHROP\C or A\) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship product is Claude, a series…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Markmonitor Inc. is an American software company founded in 1999 that develops software intended to protect corporate brands from Internet counterfeiting, fraud, piracy, and cybersquatting. Headquarte…
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