language

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

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

He meant that music is nonrepresentational—it speaks in a language of rhythms and harmonies, and any meaning we ascribe to it is our own projection, informed by context or habits of mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

It was part lesson about taking things slow, part budget issue, but their language camp walked a lot of places.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

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

“Of course it could be frustrating,” said her daughter Brigitte, an elegant, soft-spoken scholar of Semitic languages who has managed Caland’s estate since her death in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

The wildly imaginative “Bunny,” often described on TikTok as a “fever dream,” has been translated into 17 different languages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Painted above the door, in five different languages, were the words:

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell