>Shares of glass maker Corning (GLW) soared to a record high on Friday, as the supplier of a key component in data center networking equipment continued to ride a wave of AI enthusiasm. Shares of Corning rose above $140 for the first time ever on Friday.>Corning’s stock this year has finally overtaken its previous record high set back in 2000 when telecommunications companies spent huge sums to build out internet infrastructure. Then as now, fiber optic cables were in hot demand in the late 1990s. Corning stock rose to a record high of about $113 in September 2000. Then the Dotcom Bubble burst and a little over a year later shares had lost nearly all of their value, trading below $2 in 2002.
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