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The AI buildout is reaching places few people expected this morning. The day's biggest gainer is an industrial manufacturer whose tanks are finding new demand inside data center cooling systems, and a quantum computing name is pulling its entire sector higher on a technical first.

Elsewhere, an AI partnership and activist pressure are delivering smaller lifts to a grocery platform and a theme park operator. The lone loser is a homebuilder that told investors to expect fewer deliveries and thinner margins than they were hoping for.

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Worthington Enterprises (WOR): +17%

The industrial manufacturer is surging after CEO Joseph Hayek pointed to rapidly growing demand for its engineered tanks used in liquid cooling systems for data centers. First-quarter results also topped estimates, but the outlook is what's moving the stock: an industrial name just drew a direct line to the AI infrastructure buildout.

IonQ (IONQ): +12%

IonQ says it has tested the industry's first real-time quantum error decoder, a capability that lets error correction run across operations without slowing down execution. Fixing errors without a speed penalty is the kind of technical claim that can move an entire sector, and it did: Rigetti Computing (RGTI) and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) are both up more than 5%.

Maplebear (CART): +5%

The Instacart owner is climbing after announcing that customers can now use Muse, the personal AI agent from Meta Platforms (META), on its grocery platform. Meta joins ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on Instacart's growing list of AI partners, and the pattern is the point: whichever assistant shoppers end up using, Instacart wants to be the grocery cart behind it.

Six Flags Entertainment (FUN): +2%

The theme park operator is edging higher after The Wall Street Journal reported that activist hedge fund Jana Partners is encouraging the company to explore a sale. According to the Journal, the push followed Jana's disappointment with Six Flags' second-quarter earnings, and the modest move suggests investors see pressure building rather than a deal in hand.

KB Home (KBH): -4%

The homebuilder is slipping after its fourth-quarter delivery projections came in below expectations. Its outlook for housing gross margins this quarter also landed under what analysts were looking for, which points to fewer homes than expected and thinner profit on each one.

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Viking Therapeutics (VKTX)

Viking is the obesity-drug name retail can't stop talking about after Tuesday's data showed patients on its experimental shot, VK2735, kept most of their weight off even after switching to less frequent doses. StockTwits sentiment on the name hit a record reading, r/wallstreetbets mentions surged, and the conversation keeps circling whether less frequent dosing gives Viking a real opening against Eli Lilly (LLY) and Novo Nordisk (NVO).

The stock jumped more than 30% on Tuesday, its biggest one-day gain in over two years, and is roughly flat so far this morning. Phase 3 results for the injectable version aren't expected until 2027, so the question now may be less about the next headline and more about whether Tuesday's move holds once the excitement cools.

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