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Why Micron Stock Dropped Today

Is Micron's run done? Wall Street doesn't think so.

Why Micron Stock Dropped Today

Published September 28, 2026 · Category: Finance

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Micron (NASDAQ: MU) stock slipped 2.5% thorugh 2:25 p.m. ET Monday after OpenAI announced over the weekend that it will pause training on some of its artificial intelligence models as it investigates new reports of AI agents going "rogue."

Image source: Micron.

Training AI models -- and even more using AI to answer questions (inference) and operate AI agents requires enormous amounts of memory. All year long, this rise in demand for computer memory has been pushing prices higher for the DRAM and NAND memory chips that Micron produces, boosting sales, profit margins, and bottom-line profits, too.

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