IREN, Cipher Mining Surge On AI Cloud Deals With Microsoft, Amazon Web Services

Group 1 - Iren (IREN) announced a multiyear cloud-services contract with Microsoft (MSFT) worth $9.7 billion, involving advanced Nvidia (NVDA) chips [1] - The contract includes a 20% prepayment and provides Microsoft access to Nvidia Blackwell GB 300 GPUs over five years [1] - Following the announcement, Iren's stock surged, along with other bitcoin miners transitioning to AI [1] Group 2 - Quantum computing stocks are experiencing volatility as they approach Q3 earnings reports, with IonQ set to report late Wednesday [2]