Today’s NYT Mini Crossword answers for Tuesday, Sept. 15 are OBVI (1A), FEET (5A), FALSE (6A), CMON (8A), HAND (9A), OFF (1D), BEACH (2D), VELMA (3D), ITSON (4D), and END (7D).
Sep 15, 2026 ·
CNET
China’s retail sales rose 0.4% year over year in August, down from 0.6% in July and missing a Reuters forecast of 0.8%.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
CNBC
Jensen Huang took a live call from President Trump at the All-In conference in L.A. while holding Apple’s new foldable phone, priced at $1,999 and not due in stores for another five weeks.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Australia’s Taxation Office CIO Mark Sawade says he’s letting administrative staff use Microsoft Copilot for everyday tasks to build “muscle” and AI literacy, not to directly improve efficiency or core services in the near term.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
The Register
Amazon is expanding U.S. AI infrastructure capacity by partnering with Wiwynn to expand a server-and-rack manufacturing facility in Socorro, Texas—adding nearly 1,000 jobs expected by end of 2027 and driving total investment by Wiwynn above $1.6 billion (eventually about 4,000 workers).
Sep 15, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Investors added nearly $16 billion to US-listed ETFs in the week ending Sept. 11, taking year-to-date inflows past $1.4 trillion as the 10-year Treasury yield neared and challenged the 5% mark.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Investors added a net $3,973.33 million to ETFs overall, with total ETF AUM at $16,213,201.24 million (0.02% increase).
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
VanEck saw net ETF outflows of $-585.85 million (=-0.35% of AUM) on September 11, 2026, with $167,040.21 million in assets under management.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sempra Infrastructure signed a 20-year LNG sales and purchase agreement with Petrobras for approximately 800,000 tonnes per year of liquefied natural gas from Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 in Texas.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta Display glasses can automatically turn off their display while driving by enabling Audio Only mode plus the Meta AI app’s Driving Detection feature.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
Engadget
Microsoft has released a draft “Humanist AI Code of Conduct” outlining how it plans to train future “MAI” models, and is asking for public feedback before applying the guidelines to model development next year.
Sep 15, 2026 ·The Register
Valve says it’s still working out “how and when” it can deliver a Steam Deck 2, despite having long said a sequel will happen and won’t arrive until Valve finds the right chip.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
The Verge
The world’s billionaires’ combined wealth rose 12.8% year-over-year to a record $15.1 trillion in 2025, and ultra-high-net-worth investors and family offices are increasingly targeting oil and gas infrastructure assets such as pipelines and export facilities amid higher energy prices linked to the war in Iran and rising energy demand from the AI boom.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Corporate tax receipts fell 25% in the first 11 months of fiscal 2026, dropping by $96 billion from $390 billion to $294 billion.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Energy Transfer (ET) offers an about 6.3% dividend yield and has a consensus “Strong Buy” rating, backed by a track record of dividend growth and strong distributable cash flow (DCF).
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The EPA announced it wants to erase limits on greenhouse-gas pollution from power plants by seeking to rescind the Biden-era requirement that most greenhouse emissions be eliminated by 2039 or face closure, and by arguing the Clean Air Act does not allow EPA regulation of power-plant emissions.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Engadget
A three-minute song on Apple Music is estimated to use about 120MB per hour in High Quality, about 720MB per hour in Lossless, and up to about 2.9GB per hour in Hi-Res Lossless.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX’s Elon Musk agreed to “pace the frontier” via a proposal that includes third-party auditors, regulation of domestic AI labs, and a global slowdown, but critics argue it could function as a “cartel” that blocks competitors and open-source progress without enforceable safeguards.
Sep 14, 2026 ·The Verge
A compromised official HBO Max Reddit account was used to push more than 100 malicious ads delivering ClickFix-style information-stealing malware to both Windows and macOS users, redirecting victims to spoofed landing pages with download/join steps and “paste this command into Terminal” instructions.
Sep 14, 2026 ·The Register
Apple may expand its foldable iPhone Duo line into multiple models—such as an iPhone Duo Max, iPhone Duo SE, or iPhone Duo mini—based on a tipster prediction that a short name “leaves room for a suffix.”
Sep 14, 2026 ·CNET
