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He also said that it was ‘absolutely’ possible to build an AI beyond human control. by Terrence O'Brien Sep 12, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC Image: The Verge Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years
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"Lyrics are where people find meaning in music." So says Marco Paglia, Chief Product Officer at Musixmatch - the platform delivering time-synced lyrics and translations across all major music streaming services. At a time when passive background streaming feels like it dominates the landscape, I spoke to Marco
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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. Europe has no waiver to grant, because Brussels abolished individual exemptions in
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In quite a big surprise at BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard has confirmed Diablo 5 is in development and is on for a Spring 2029 release. And not content with simply maintaining the previous game's darkness, threat, and edge-of-apocalypse vibes and setting, Diablo 5 looks to go fully bleak, fully
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In Brief 1:19 PM PDT · September 12, 2026 While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman. Altman was interviewed recently by Fortune editor in chief Alyson Shontell; amidst the fallout from the OpenAI-HuggingFace hack, as
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Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. And here’s a page that Wordle players should be sure to bookmark. We’ve made a list, with help from the Oxford
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Looking for the most recent NYT Connections puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. In Connections, you look at a grid of 16 words and pick four words that have a connection to each other.
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Looking for the most recent NYT Strands puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Strands is like a word find game, but without the list of words to find. Sometimes I see the theme and
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Blizzard originally tried to bring the StarCraft universe to the world of 3D shooters way back in 2002 with StarCraft: Ghost. It
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* NEC has reportedly ended quantum hardware development after nearly three decades of research * Several NEC quantum researchers have reportedly moved to rival Fujitsu * NEC once ranked first globally in semiconductor sales in 1990 NEC has reportedly stopped building physical quantum computers after roughly three decades of research into superconducting circuits
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* Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for frontier model pacing * He has a detailed plan * It'll require cooperation from other AI companies and, yes, even China Maybe you're tired of hearing the three-year AI industry veteran, Jacob Coxon, warn us on every available media platform that AI
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A group of researchers discovered another previously undisclosed cyberattack by agents OpenAI was testing. Sean Rayford/Getty Images OpenAI's agents hacked another service months before the Hugging Face incident happened, a group of researchers told The Wall Street Journal. The agents, which the company was testing in a
