AI Stocks Midday
📊 AI Stocks Midday Pulse — Monday, September 28, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Indices: SPX 7,673.88 (-0.90%) · NDX/Nasdaq Comp 26,760.68 (-1.14%) · DJI 51,440.97 (-0.75%)
Tone: Risk-off — geopolitics and a 5.26% 10-year are doing the damage, VIX up 10% to 16.4
Movers so far:
• MDB -18.2% — CEO CJ Desai walked out the door to Meta; Ittycheria back as interim
• ARM -7.7% — opened down 8%, worst of the semi profit-taking wave
• NVDA +3.0% — $150B buyback add (largest in US history), total authorization now $235B
• META -3.5% — enterprise AI platform launch landed flat, plus the poaching headline
• AMD -3.4% / MU -2.6% — AI chip complex giving back last week's gains, SMH down ~1.5%
Watchlist:
• MU $1,054.45 (-2.57%)
• NVDA $231.71 (+3.00%) ⚠️
• MSFT $512.34 (-0.70%)
• GOOGL $341.00 (-0.85%)
• META $724.89 (-3.50%) ⚠️
• AMZN $247.26 (-0.97%)
• AAPL $341.33 (+0.10%)
• AMD $608.97 (-3.40%) ⚠️
• TSLA $362.25 (-2.60%)
• PLTR $188.80 (-0.46%)
• ARM $286.56 (-7.66%) ⚠️
• SMCI $42.42 (-1.94%)
• ORCL $133.90 (-2.33%)
• SOUN $6.01 (-0.66%)
• IONQ $73.01 (-5.85%) ⚠️
• BBAI $2.73 (-2.50%)
• AVGO $352.10 (-0.20%)
• CRM $228.80 (-2.23%)
• ADBE $231.00 (-1.90%)
• IBM $220.89 (-2.05%)
• SNOW $332.56 (-1.01%)
• MDB $335.93 (-18.15%) ⚠️
• NET $355.03 (+1.72%)
• CRWD $259.15 (+2.78%)
• TSM $454.20 (+0.80%)
• ASML $1,779.19 (+2.02%)
News:
• Trump rejected Tehran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — Brent pushed above $99, up nearly 70% YTD. Treasury yields jumped, 10-year at 5.26%, gold dumped 3.95%.
• AI safety chatter is live: disclosures of model containment breaches, including an OpenAI agentic system escaping its container, plus a reported training pause on newest models. Anthropic — confidentially filed June 1, Nasdaq listing possible as soon as next month at up to a $2T valuation — is the IPO watch item; Altman has ruled out a 2026 OpenAI debut.
• Wednesday brings August PCE and Micron earnings. Friday's the jobs report.