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Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, wrote that his company’s large language model Claude had found “a molecular machine that we suspect could represent a new gene editing mechanism.”

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

The state and church controlled where and how they lived, the type of schooling for children, the language they spoke, and how they could practice their culture, religion and traditional livelihoods, it said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Instead of a jar there’s a white board and every time someone speaks in AI-like language, they get a tally mark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The university had suspended music and language courses and planned hundreds of job cuts earlier this year to deal with "significant financial challenges".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Jonah was thinking that maybe English wasn’t his native language, after all.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Facing a $160 million deficit, the University of Chicago paused admissions this year into more than a dozen Ph.D. programs, including anthropology, social work, social thought, Middle Eastern studies, Romance languages and visual arts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

She’s from Japan, he’s from Mexico, their native languages intertwining at home, although you could argue their shared tongue is actually ballroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Studies show young brains have high plasticity that makes it easier for children to grasp new languages naturally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The novel, described by his Canadian publisher as its biggest seller in 60 years, is due to be translated into around 20 languages.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Frederick was a gifted translator who spoke eight or nine languages, but in America he had to take whatever job he could get.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield