Trending Tickers: $DFTX Depression Trial, $SMCI AI Data Center Blueprint, $BLZE CoreWeave Deal
This week, several stocks caught investors’ attention, driven by significant developments and market momentum. Here’s the breakdown of this week’s trending stocks:
Definium Therapeutics ($DFTX) Reports Positive Results for Depression Treatment
Definium Therapeutics ($DFTX), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for mental health and brain disorders, announced positive results from a late-stage trial of its experimental depression drug, DT120.
DT120 is a tablet that dissolves in the mouth and is a specially formulated version of LSD. In the study, called Emerge, patients with major depressive disorder were given a single dose and followed over 12 weeks.
According to the company, the trial met its main goal and all of its other key goals. Doctors measured depression using a standard rating scale where a bigger drop means more improvement. At six weeks, patients who took DT120 improved by about 8 points more than patients who took a placebo (a dummy treatment), and the company said this result was highly reliable statistically.
The company also said the benefit showed up fast and lasted. Patients started improving within the first week, and the effect was still there at 12 weeks. About 35% of patients on DT120 saw their symptoms improve by at least half, compared with 7% on placebo, and roughly 24% reached remission versus 3% on placebo.
On safety, Definium said the treatment was generally well tolerated, with no serious side effects and no signs of increased suicidal thoughts. The company added that the result moves it closer to filing for FDA approval.
Stock Price Reaction
$DFTX shares jumped about 50% following the announcement.
Super Micro Computer ($SMCI) Unveils New Data Center Blueprint Built on NVIDIA’s Latest AI Chips
Super Micro Computer ($SMCI), a company that builds servers and complete data center systems for AI and other computing needs, announced a new ready-made design for building large data centers based on NVIDIA’s newest computing platform, called Vera Rubin NVL4. The company revealed the plan at the ISC 2026 industry conference.
In simple terms, the offering is a full package for setting up powerful computer clusters. Supermicro calls it a “blueprint,” and it covers everything from the early planning and site inspection, to building and testing the equipment in its factories, to installing and switching it on at the customer’s location.
According to the company, the system is aimed at research institutions and supercomputing centers that handle both traditional scientific simulations and newer AI work. Each building block packs up to 1,152 NVIDIA Rubin chips (GPUs) and 576 NVIDIA Vera processors into racks that are cooled with liquid rather than air, which helps manage the heat these high-powered systems produce.
The company said the design can be scaled up by simply adding more of these blocks, allowing customers to build clusters of almost any size. It also builds on earlier versions of the blueprint that Supermicro introduced for other NVIDIA systems.
CEO Charles Liang said that AI has become an important part of scientific research and that organizations able to set up this kind of infrastructure quickly will be positioned to lead future discoveries.
Stock Price Reaction
$SMCI shares jumped more than 15% following the announcement.
Backblaze ($BLZE) Signs $335 Million Cloud Storage Deal with CoreWeave
Backblaze ($BLZE), a cloud storage company, announced a five-year, $335 million agreement to provide data storage for CoreWeave ($CRWV), a cloud company focused on AI.
Under the deal, Backblaze will supply large amounts of low-cost storage that supports part of CoreWeave’s storage system. In simple terms, Backblaze will handle the kind of data that does not need to be accessed at top speed, which frees up CoreWeave’s faster, more expensive storage for demanding AI tasks. The agreement covers a “multi-exabyte” amount of data, meaning an extremely large volume.
According to the company, AI work depends heavily on being able to store and move huge amounts of data, from training models to running them and saving their results. Backblaze said the deal shows how its platform can help companies keep up with growing demand for AI infrastructure.
Backblaze noted that it serves more than 100,000 customers worldwide and has long experience running large storage systems. A CoreWeave executive said the company chose Backblaze because of its track record in making large-scale, hard-drive-based storage reliable and easy to use as it expands its services for AI customers.
Stock Price Reaction
$BLZE shares jumped about 43% following the announcement.
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