There`s a new way to build software, and it has a great name. "Vibe coding". Here`s how it works. You describe what you want in plain English. An AI writes the code. You try it, tell it what to fix, and go again. The term came from Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and Tesla`s former head of AI. In February 2025 he posted about fully giving in to the vibes and forgetting the code even exists. It took off. Collins Dictionary named "vibe coding" its Word of the Year for 2025. Anyone can try it. Open an AI coding tool, type "build me a budgeting app", and keep refining. There`s a catch. Every prompt, and the code that comes with it, goes to an AI model, often on servers overseas. Australian based SCX.ai runs its own coding model only on domestic servers, so the code stays in the country.

#AI #vibecoding #stocks #tech #fintok

Normandy Minerals has listed on the ASX with the ticker code of NMD. The company is a gold explorer focused on consolidating a substantial package of prospecting, exploration and mining tenure within Western Australia’s highly prospective Marda-Diemals region. On completion of Normandy Minerals’ IPO, the company will hold interests in the advanced Halleys and Mt Jackson Projects, and the earlier-stage Perrinvale Project. Normandy Minerals’ project portfolio is supported by extensive historic exploration and gold production activities, which will be used to rapidly prioritise and advance planned upcoming exploration programs.

Media: The Stock Network, Lel Smits

Metals Australia (ASX:MLS) has established a maiden Mineral Resource at its Manindi West VTM Project in Western Australia, adding significant scale to its critical minerals portfolio. Testwork has also produced high-purity titanium oxide, while further resource growth remains possible through the Exploration Target and additional zones not yet included in the resource. With the existing Zinc-Copper-Silver project just 1km away and zinc market conditions strengthening, Metals Australia is also exploring opportunities across the broader Manindi portfolio. CEO Paul Ferguson joins The Stock Network’s Lel Smits to discuss the new resource, the titanium opportunity, the zinc upside and the Company’s next phase of growth.

🪓 Growing the VTM opportunity
⚒️ Turning VTM into value
🇦🇺 Unlocking the broader Manindi portfolio
🇺🇲 Upcoming US and Canada travel expectations

Axel REE (ASX:AXL) has significantly expanded its Caladão Rare Earth Project in Brazil, more than doubling the Mineral Resource at its Woolrich deposit to 264.6Mt, including a maiden 110.1Mt Indicated Resource. Managing Director Dr Patience Mpofu joins The Stock Network’s Lel Smits to discuss the major resource upgrade, what the maiden Indicated Resource means for Woolrich, the expanding gallium opportunity and Axel’s strategy to develop a large-scale critical minerals platform in Brazil.

🇧🇷 A major resource milestone in Brazil
🪓 Caladão growing scale as the project moves towards development
⛏️ Building a broader critical minerals platform

Axel REE is presenting at IMARC, highlighting the company’s rare earths strategy and the latest developments across its Caladão Rare Earths Project in Brazil.

🇧🇷 Caladão resource and exploration
⛰️ Progress in gallium and rare earths development
🌎 Key opportunities across the company’s portfolio
🪓 What’s next as Axel REE advances its projects

🗓 27 - 29 Oct 2026
📍 ICC Sydney

Far East Gold (ASX:FEG) is heading towards two shareholder meetings in October and November as a dispute over the Company’s Board and future direction comes to a vote. The Company has called an Extraordinary General Meeting for Wednesday, 21 October 2026, following notices seeking the removal of three directors. A separate Xingye-convened meeting is scheduled for 3 November 2026. With shareholders facing two sets of resolutions, Far East Gold Managing Director and CEO Shane Menere joins Lel Smits from The Stock Network to explain how the Company reached this point, what shareholders are being asked to decide, and what is at stake for FEG.

🔹 What shareholders should understand today
🔹 How FEG got into this situation
🔹 Xingye’s approach
🔹 The removal notices
🔹 The Board’s position
🔹 Two meetings and the voting process
🔹 The importance of shareholder participation
🔹 The commercial picture
🔹 The type of deal FEG is seeking
🔹 Creating a stronger position for FEG
🔹 Idenburg and the broader strategy
🔹 Delivering for shareholders
🔹 Final message to shareholders

Why the world is running short of copper 🔌🟠

Copper is in almost everything that runs on electricity, from house wiring and power grids to electric cars and AI data centres.

Demand is climbing fast. S&P Global forecasts the world will need 42 million tonnes of copper a year by 2040, a 50% jump from last year. But supply is struggling to keep up. S&P warns of a potential 10 million-tonne shortfall by 2040 without major new mines, while the International Energy Agency sees a 30% gap as early as 2035.

So why not just dig more? New copper mines are slow. It has recently taken close to 18 years on average to go from discovery to production. New deposits are also harder to reach, with lower grades and higher costs. That`s why bringing new copper projects into production is becoming increasingly important.

Australian copper developer KGL Resources says its Jervois project in the Northern Territory is fully funded, with first production targeted for 2028.

#copper #AI #mining #stocks #fintok

Gold and silver explorer 49 Metals (ASX:49M) is fast-tracking follow-up drilling at Gold Mountain in Nevada, with a 3,500m program scheduled for October. The program will expand and infill the Adit Zone, building on a maiden campaign where all 22 holes intersected gold and/or silver mineralisation and identified a broad system with multiple higher-grade structures. 49 Metals Managing Director Phil Carter joins The Stock Network’s Lel Smits to discuss the next phase of drilling and Gold Mountain’s growth potential.

⚒️ Expanding the Adit Zone
🪓 Testing the broader system
🚀 FY27 outlook