Wordle players faced puzzle number 1,915 on Wednesday, a five-letter word built around a theme of delicacy and lightness that offered several accessible entry points for solvers willing to lean into descriptive, atmospheric vocabulary.

For those still working through the puzzle, several hints circulated Wednesday to help point solvers toward the answer without giving it away outright. The word describes something delicate, light and lacking in thickness or density. It is commonly used to describe smoke, hair, clouds or other wispy-looking things, and can suggest something thin and barely substantial, evoking the image of a light breeze moving strands of hair or a thin trail of smoke. Structurally, the word functions as an adjective, contains one vowel and four consonants, includes no repeated letters, and begins with the letter W.

SPOILER WARNING: Today’s Wordle answer follows below. Stop reading now if you’d rather solve the puzzle without assistance.

The answer to Wordle #1,915 for September 16 is WISPY, an adjective describing something thin, delicate or barely substantial, most often applied to smoke, hair, clouds or other light, fine-textured things that seem to drift or float rather than hold a solid form.

Puzzle guides covering Wednesday’s word noted that its relative rarity as an everyday adjective, combined with its uncommon letter combination, made it a moderately challenging solve despite the accessibility of the hints pointing toward its general meaning. Strategy guides published alongside the day’s clues cautioned solvers against assuming Wordle answers never repeat letters, noting that words like SHEEP or BLOOM have appeared as past answers and that repeated letters remain a regular feature of the puzzle’s five-letter solution pool, even though Wednesday’s specific answer did not include any repeated letters itself.

Guides also offered broader strategic advice relevant to Wednesday’s puzzle and beyond, recommending that solvers lean on consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel frameworks, using opening guesses like CRATE, PLANT or SHARE, to maximize the number of common letters tested early in a puzzle. Common five-letter word endings such as -ER, -LY, -TY, -LE and -CK were also flagged as useful patterns to consider once a solver has narrowed down several confirmed letters but remains uncertain about the final letter or two of the word.

Wednesday’s puzzle continued a run of daily words that has kept Wordle’s global player base engaged more than four years after the game first became a viral sensation. The puzzle, now owned and published by The New York Times, releases a new five-letter target word to players worldwide at midnight local time each day, giving solvers six total attempts to identify the correct word, with the game’s now-familiar color-coded feedback system, green for letters in the correct position, yellow for correct letters placed incorrectly, and gray for letters absent from the word entirely, guiding players toward the solution with each subsequent guess.

Puzzle number 1,915 followed Tuesday’s answer, DEALT, continuing a stretch of daily words that trackers use to help players identify broader patterns in how frequently the game’s word selection alternates between everyday, high-frequency vocabulary and more specific or evocative terms like Wednesday’s answer. Players tracking their personal statistics through Wordle’s built-in results screen, or through the game’s companion analytical tool, Wordlebot, can compare how efficiently they solved Wednesday’s puzzle relative to the broader player base.

For solvers looking for an added challenge, Wordle continues to offer a “Hard Mode” setting, which requires players to reuse any previously revealed correct or partially correct letters in all subsequent guesses, removing the option to test entirely new, unrelated letter combinations once useful information has already been uncovered. That setting can be toggled from the game’s settings menu before starting a new puzzle each day.

Beyond the daily Wordle puzzle, The New York Times has continued expanding its broader portfolio of daily word and logic games in recent years. Those games include Connections, which challenges players to sort 16 words into four hidden categories, and the Mini Crossword, a condensed version of the paper’s traditional crossword format designed to be completed within just a few minutes. Other publishers have introduced their own competing word puzzle offerings as well, including the Los Angeles Times and The Atlantic, giving daily puzzle enthusiasts an expanding array of options to choose from beyond Wordle’s single daily word challenge.

With Wednesday’s word now revealed, players who came up short on the day’s puzzle, or those simply looking to keep an active streak alive, will have a fresh five-letter word and a new set of six guesses to work with when Thursday’s edition of Wordle resets at midnight local time.

Walmart is rolling out a weeklong fall sales event that will overlap with Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, giving consumers two major discount events during the early holiday shopping season.

The retailer’s Deals & More event begins at 12 a.m. ET Oct. 5 and runs through Oct. 11, offering shoppers seven days of discounts across categories including home, tech, toys and Halloween items.

Amazon’s “Prime Big Deal Days” are scheduled for Oct. 6-7, meaning the two sales events will overlap for two days.

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Walmart is rolling out a weeklong fall sales event that will overlap with Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ahead of the sale, Walmart has been advertising discounts of up to 50% on home items; 40% on tech; 30% on toys, food and Halloween products; 25% on tools; and 20% on wellness items.

“Heads up — big deals coming!” Walmart states on its website.

Unlike Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, Walmart’s sale is expected to be available to all shoppers and does not require a paid membership.

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Ahead of the sale, Walmart has been advertising discounts of up to 50% on home items, 40% on tech, 30% on toys, food and Halloween products, 25% on tools and 20% on wellness items. (Reuters/Lisa Baertlein/File Photo)

Amazon, meanwhile, said Prime Big Deal Days is an exclusive event for Prime members.

“Looking to get a head start on your holiday shopping? Prime members can start saving now ahead of Prime Big Deal Days 2026, returning October 6-7 with 48 hours of exclusive deals across more than 35 categories,” Amazon said in a press release Monday.

Amazon said Prime members will be able to shop for millions of deals on brands, seasonal items and everyday essentials when the event begins at 12:01 a.m. PDT on Oct. 6, adding that early deals are already available.

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Amazon said Prime Big Deal Days is an exclusive event for Prime members. (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)

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The company also encouraged shoppers who are not already Prime members to sign up or start a free trial to access the sale and other membership benefits.

Walmart and Amazon could not immediately be reached by FOX Business for comment.

US interest rates have been raised for the first time in more than three years to 3.75%-4% from 3.5%-3.75% by the Federal Reserve. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh warned they could be increased further later this year in a bid to slow rising prices.

The increase comes despite fierce opposition from President Donald Trump, who had called for rates to be cut.

The president on Wednesday accused top Federal Reserve policymakers of acting against him for political reasons.

Craig Brelsford

Hello. This is Craig Brelsford with Redchip Companies. Thank you for joining today’s event with TransCode Therapeutics, which trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker RNAZ. Joining us today is Philippe Calais, Chairman and CEO of TransCode; Zdravka Medarova, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer; and John Tattory, the Interim CFO.

We will begin with a brief presentation in a moment, and then we will open the event to your questions. Welcome to everyone joining us today on X, YouTube, LinkedIn and other social media platforms.

[Operator Instructions]

Before we begin, please allow me to read the safe harbor statement. This call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements pertaining to future financial and/or operating results, along with other statements about the future expectations, beliefs, goals, plans or prospects expressed by management constitute forward-looking statements. Any statements that are not historical facts should also be considered forward-looking statements. Of course, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties.

Philippe, please go ahead.

Philippe Calais
CEO & Executive Chairman of the Board

Great. Thank you very much, and hello, everybody. It’s a pleasure to have the opportunity to describe our company today. And let’s jump in right away into the company overview. We really describe ourselves as a rare small cap company with 3 near-term catalysts. First of all, we have a very strong pedigree with some Harvard founders, and Z is one of them. She will be talking later on from Mass General and Harvard Medical School.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Intel shares rose 4.63% to $101.63 in midmorning trading Wednesday, up $4.49, after reports that SK hynix is in talks to make memory in the United States using Intel capacity and after Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan said the company can fill only about half of customer demand for CPUs.

The stock closed Tuesday at $97.14. Premarket prints already pointed higher after The Wall Street Journal and other outlets said SK hynix was discussing a U.S. manufacturing arrangement that could tap Intel’s Ohio footprint. Neither company announced a signed deal. Traders treated the talks as a foundry-and-packaging catalyst: a memory leader needing American wafers, and Intel needing paying volume on tools that have been underused.

Tan spoke Monday at Splunk’s .conf26 conference in Denver. Asked by Cisco President Jeetu Patel why Intel’s factories matter, he said design, manufacturing and advanced packaging should sit in one company. On foundry concentration he was blunt. “So I think relying 95% on one company, especially one based in Taiwan, is very risky,” he said. TSMC held more than 70% of foundry revenue in the first quarter, according to Counterpoint.

On product, Tan said inference still runs on CPUs that schedule GPUs and applications. “CPU demand is so high that we can only serve 50% of our customers,” he said. He also said memory prices have risen five- to sevenfold and that substrates for advanced packaging remain tight. He called packaging the industry’s “Holy Grail.” On Intel’s own recovery: foundry is capital-heavy and slow. “The good news is, over the past 18 months the situation has improved.” He said 18A is in mass production with yields rising about 7% a year. Intel’s last earnings deck still pegged 14A high-volume manufacturing for 2028.

Those comments landed on a stock that has already had a violent month. Intel jumped 9% on Sept. 8, hit $106.24 on Sept. 9, then dropped more than 5% on both Sept. 10 and Sept. 14 as the broader AI-chip tape sold off. Wednesday’s bounce recouped the Monday-Tuesday stall, not the September peak. The 52-week range still runs from the mid-$20s to about $141.

The last official numbers were the second quarter: $16.1 billion in revenue, 25% higher than a year earlier and $1.8 billion above April’s outlook; non-GAAP gross margin 41.8%; non-GAAP earnings $0.42 a share. Third-quarter guidance was $15.8 billion to $16.8 billion, 42% gross margin and $0.38 a share. Foundry revenue in the second quarter was $5.8 billion. Client and data-center CPU lines are still the cash engine; foundry is the option the market is trying to price.

A SK hynix deal, if it happens, would not turn Intel into a DRAM company. It would be a customer for U.S. capacity and a political win in Ohio. Tan’s 50% fill-rate line is the nearer trade: if CPUs are short, Intel can raise prices — reports already point to another PC-processor increase around Oct. 5 — and ship every wafer it can yield on 18A.

Wednesday’s $101 handle is not a verdict on 14A. It is a bid on two sentences: customers want more Intel CPUs than Intel can make, and a Korean memory giant may need a U.S. roof. Until there is a term sheet or a third-quarter print that holds the $16 billion run-rate, those sentences are the whole story.

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Aeluma’s Q4 Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today’s conference call is being recorded.

At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Moira Conlon, Investor Relations for Aeluma. Please go ahead.

Moira Conlon
Financial Profiles, Inc.

Good afternoon, and welcome to Aeluma’s Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2026 Earnings Call. I’m here today with Founder and CEO, Dr. Jonathan Klamkin; and CFO, Christopher Stewart.

Today’s discussions and responses to questions may include forward-looking statements, which are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from these statements. These risks and uncertainties are detailed in the earnings press release issued today, along with the reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These reports, along with today’s earnings release and fourth quarter presentation that we will reference during this conference call can be found under the Investors section of our website.

Aeluma assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this call. Throughout the discussion, the company will refer to non-GAAP financial measures, including EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA. A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is included in our earnings press release and SEC filings.

Now I’ll turn the call over

A total of 23 staff have been made redundant

A Devon engineering business which had been manufacturing for more than 75 years has ceased trading, with the loss of 23 jobs. Witon Engineering was established in 1948 and developed and made precision-turned parts for use in a wide range of industries.

At its peak, the family-owned company employed more than 60 people at its Barnstaple headquarters.

But in recent years, the firm had faced financial difficulties caused by economic uncertainties linked to Brexit, the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine. It is understood that significant increases in energy and operational costs also put pressure on margins.

Witon Engineering entered creditors’ voluntary liquidation on Thursday, September 10, following sustained financial challenges, exacerbated by a fall in customer confidence and sales in recent months after a strong start to the year, the business said.

Business Live understands the directors decided “there was no reasonable prospect” of the company returning to sustainable profitability and as the firm was unable to meet its liabilities – the money it owed – the board agreed to cease trading.

Nick Harris and Lucinda Coleman, partners in the restructuring team at PKF Francis Clark, were appointed joint liquidators and are now seeking buyers for Witon’s assets.

A total of 23 employees were made redundant after the company closed its doors in July.

Mr Harris said: “It’s always sad when a longstanding and well-regarded business like Witon Engineering is unable to continue trading. Despite the directors’ efforts to control expenditure, improve efficiencies and pursue new business opportunities over recent years, unfortunately there was no viable alternative to liquidation in the circumstances.

“Our focus now is on realising the assets of the company in order to deliver a return to creditors. We expect a high level of interest in the company’s assets, especially the large amount of engineering plant and machinery.

“We will also be supporting former employees in making claims for any amounts they are entitled to from the company through the Redundancy Payments Service.”

Specialist agent Simon Cornelius-Light, of commercial property firm Lambert Smith Hampton, is assisting the liquidators with the sale of the assets.

“We are delighted to be offering a range of high-quality machine tools for sale, which are already generating significant interest both across the UK and internationally,” he said. “The machinery will be available to purchase via online auction in the coming weeks.”

Creditors and interested parties are being advised to contact Lucy Roberts at PKF Francis Clark on 01392 302643 or lucy.roberts@pkf-francisclark.co.uk.

NEW YORK — Medici Brands, Inc. is launching its David Protein brand into the beverage category with a line of protein milkshakes.

The ready-to-drink beverages are formulated with ultrafiltered milk and contain 30 grams of protein, 140 calories to 150 calories and less than 1 gram of sugar.

The milkshakes are available in vanilla and chocolate flavors.

The protein shakes may be purchased online through the company’s website and select retailers in New York City. 

Of course, knowing what you’re supposed to do is one thing but actually walking up to a stranger and starting a conversation, or even messaging someone out of the blue online, is another.

Taylor Crow who works in sales says she’s “fairly good” at networking as it was something she prioritised at university.

“I sent over 200 cold DMs on LinkedIn and reached out to people in the companies I wanted to work at while I was studying.”

She admits it was “so awkward” but it was something she had to do to land the job she wanted.

Her colleague Vicky Peterlin, 24, agrees. “It’s not about being good at networking but more about not being afraid to reach out to people.

“I had thoughts about how I’m not qualified to have these conversations but then you realise there are no rules and sending out emails and messages are free and easy.

“The worst that can happen is that they say no and that’s ok.”

Katherine Leopold, a tutor at Greenwich Business School, echoes this. She says the biggest hurdle is making the first move but if you don’t take the step you are “ruling yourself out”.

The number of applications that organisations are dealing with is “absolutely enormous” so try to meet employers in person and show them your total authentic story, she advises.

“Ensure you say to them, ‘I have this skill, I have this piece of knowledge, so I’m confident that your team is stronger with me in it.’”