‘Lyrics represent one of the few moments in streaming when the listener stops being passive’: Musixmatch product chief on why lyrics — not algorithms — are turning casual streamers into super-fans

Exclusive: I spoke to Marco Paglia, Chief Product Officer at Musixmatch, about how lyrics are changing the game for musicians and their listeners.

iPhone 17 Price Slashed Further After iPhone 18 Price Hike

Apple raised prices on older iPhones after the iPhone 18 launch, but several retailers are cutting iPhone 17 prices further. These are the last iPhone 17 discounts.

Diablo 5 announced and fully embraces bleakness, defeat, darkness, and hopelessness for Sanctuary, as Blizzard also confirms Diablo 4 is coming to Switch 2

Diablo V was a surprise announcement at BlizzCon 2026 and looks to double down on the darkness of its predecessor

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter
StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter

Blizzard originally tried to bring the StarCraft universe to the world of 3D shooters way back in 2002 with StarCraft: Ghost. It sat in development hell for years until Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed that it had been canceled in 2014. Now Blizzard is giving it another go with the simply titled StarCraft. Dan Hay, […]

NEC drops its quantum computing work, marking an end to nearly 30 years of development
NEC drops its quantum computing work, marking an end to nearly 30 years of development

NEC is reportedly ending quantum hardware development after decades of research, while Fujitsu gains researchers and continues pursuing increasingly larger systems.

Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 13, #924

Here are hints and the answers for today’s NYT Strands puzzle, No. 924 for Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026.

Anthropic CEO calls for pacing AI frontier model development and warns of AI agents ‘taking over the entire internet’

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is also worried model development is going too fast, but he has a plan for slowing down and managing its unprecedented and accelerated capabilities — though if anyone anywhere will agree to it remains to be seen

Anthropic CEO calls for pacing AI frontier model development and warns ‘in 6–12 months such a swarm [of agents] could be capable of taking over the entire internet’

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is also worried model development is going too fast, but he has a plan for slowing down and managing its unprecedented and accelerated capabilities — though if anyone anywhere will agree to it remains to be seen

Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same

Sam Altman says OpenAI will match Anthropic’s commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access, a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down and asked Washington for a narrow antitrust waiver so competitors could coordinate. E…