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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what they report. And this AI-powered lab, the company said, had made its first discovery.  To understand what Anthropic says its system did, imagine you’re flipping through a library of millions of DNA sequences, amassed as scientists sequence more and more of the living world. One step toward a breakthrough might be finding a peculiar sequence that encodes an interesting enzyme, perhaps. Then you’d need to figure out what that enzyme does and, eventually, how to manipulate it to do something useful. What Anthropic says its system of 950 agents found after 21 hours was not a brand-new sequence. The agents instead flagged a repeating pattern surrounding a known enzyme, a particular pattern Anthropic said hadn’t been catalogued before.

Tim Hortons might be Canada's main coffee institution, but that doesn't mean every location is passing its health inspections. According to records published by Quebec's Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ), multiple Tim Hortons locations across Montreal have been fined over the past 12 months, with penalties totalling over $14,000. As always with MAPAQ fine records, there's often a significant gap between the date of the infraction and when the judgment is actually published, sometimes months, sometimes well over a year. The violations listed below don't necessarily reflect current conditions at any of these locations. Rue Jarry EstAddress: 7150 Rue Jarry Est, Montreal, QC H1J1G5Fine: $1,000Reason for the offence: The premises, equipment, materials and utensils used for food preparation, packaging, storage, transport, labelling and service, along with other sanitary facilities, weren't being kept clean. Infraction dated November 7, 2025, judgment published September 15, 2026.

NHLEverything changed for the Florida Panthers when Matthew Tkachuk arrived in 2022. Now, his brother Brady has joined the team, looking to win and win big, something that didn't happen in the first chapter of his NHL career when he played for the Ottawa Senators. Entertaining siblings bring added love to dressing room, competitiveness on iceTim Reynolds · The Associated Press · Posted: Sep 28, 2026 12:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: September 28Listen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. It always seemed inevitable brothers Matthew, left, and Brady Tkachuk would team up in the NHL. How will one brother make the other better, and more importantly, how will having two Tkachuks make the Panthers better this season? (Jim Rassol-Imagn Images via Reuters)Brady Tkachuk made an immediate impression on the Florida Panthers. It was Game 1 of the pre-season, his first game in Florida Panthers colours.

Delta Air Lines is planning to launch an advertising business, just a couple years after one of its closest rivals did the same. The Atlanta-based carrier has hired Keri Paison to lead its media network, Paison announced in a LinkedIn post. She was previously senior manager of strategy, growth, and transformation at Deloitte Digital. There, she led the development of retail media networks that generated more than $600 million in projected revenue for clients, according to her LinkedIn post. Before that, she worked for Digitas North America as associate director of strategy and analysis. “Looking forward to building what’s next for advertisers, partners, and customers,” Paison wrote. Subscribe and get full access to the news, insights, and expertise that keep industry professionals ahead of the curve.

Updated: Sep. 28, 2026 at 8:34 PM HSTAdd Us On GoogleAdd as a preferred source on GoogleJohn Mayer is returning to the sphere in Las Vegas, and "The Amazing Race: 25 Years Around The World" special will premiere tonight. ForecastOctober 19, 2026 Hawaii weather and surf: Tracking blustery trades; Jen RobbinsUpdated: 7 hours ago|Trade winds will begin to slow down Wednesday into ThursdayTop Local StoriesEssential water use notice issued for South Hilo customersUpdated: 13 hours ago|Officials said a well unexpectedly went offline and crews are working to make repairs. Top Local StoriesVegas Chamber brings business exchange summit to WaikikiUpdated: 13 hours ago|The Vegas Chamber is leading the Hawaii Business Exchange Summit at the Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort from Monday through Wednesday. Top Local StoriesHawaii’s first LVAD heart procedure keeps Ewa Beach man homeUpdated: 13 hours ago|Brandon Atumata recovered in Hawaiʻi after the state's first LVAD implant, avoiding a 6-month to year-long stay on the continent.

09.28.2026Bleacher Report will have a ringside presence at select WWE PLEs to gather content. Getty Images Bleacher Report and WWE have a new multiyear deal that includes global highlight rights across the pro wrestling outfit’s programming slate. The deal will begin rolling ahead of the Money in the Bank event in New Orleans on Oct. 10. Under terms of the deal, content will come from weekly series like “Raw,” “SmackDown,” and “NXT,” as well as WWE premium live events (WrestleMania, Survivor Series, etc.). Content will then be distributed across TNT Sports-backed social platforms like B/R, House of Highlights and B/R Wrestling, among others. B/R will have a ringside presence at select WWE PLEs to gather and disseminate such social and video content. WWE joins the NFL, NCAA, MLB, NHL and NBA as major property partners with formal B/R alliances. On the TNT Sports side, B/R GM Bennett Spector led the deal, while WWE EVP Alex Varga led the other side.

Sam Haysom is the General Assignment Editor, UK, for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time. Amelia Dimoldenberg may have had Ed Sheeran on her show before, but that didn't stop her from taking a solid jab at the singer during her SNL UK monologue. "I'm incredibly privileged to have done so many interviews with people like Idris Elba, Cher, and even a world-famous red-headed puppet with a hand up his arse, telling him what to say," says the Chicken Shop Date host in the clip above. Meanwhile, an image of her and Elmo appears in the background. "No, the other one," she adds, switching to an image of Ed Sheeran, in a joke referencing the widespread criticism the singer has received recently after Macklemore was dropped from his tour after saying "Free Palestine" during a show. This is the second week Sheeran has been mocked on SNL UK — last Saturday, he took a roasting during the "Weekend Update" segment.

Your dog may prick up its ears at its name or run to the door when it hears "walk. " But can its brain separate unfamiliar words when it hears them without a pause? In a new experiment, dogs listened to a continuous recording of invented words. No pause indicated where one word ended and the next began. Yet their brains responded to recurring consonants, a clue to which syllables belonged together. The same clear word-level response did not appear when vowels defined the words. The study published in Science does not show that dogs learned what the words meant. It reveals a preference previously demonstrated only in humans: when dividing continuous speech into parts, the brain can prioritize consonant patterns over the louder vowels. At first, that preference sounds odd. Vowels carry more acoustic energy and stand out more clearly than consonants. Why would a listener favor quieter sounds? Across many human languages, consonants often provide more information about which word is being spoken. The researchers wanted to know whether dogs, who spend their lives hearing us talk, might pick up on that usefulness too.

168 hours on the dance floor: Nigerian dancer chases Guinness World RecordNewsFeedNigerian dancer Benjamin Daniel Gabriel is trying to dance for 168 hours straight. He’s taking on the seven-day challenge in Lagos in a bid to set a Guinness World Record and put African dance on the global stage. Published On 28 Sep 2026

A commercial mission to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the agency and industry vendor Katalyst Space have gained valuable experience that will benefit future in-space servicing programs. “From the beginning, this was a high-risk, high-reward mission,” said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Without intervention, Swift was going to re-enter the atmosphere by year’s end. And while we’ll be sad to see Swift’s mission come to a close, we knew this boost effort would be valuable to the agency on multiple levels — advancing U. S. spacecraft servicing technology, challenging us to meet unprecedented mission timelines, and testing how we operate satellites to extend their time in low Earth orbit. We’re very proud of how quickly this team got so far, and we’re capturing lessons learned to ensure we’re ready to go even farther.”

Alex Worsham had no intention of leaving America. He served six and a half years in the U. S. military as an IT and cybersecurity specialist, then helped protect the Library of Congress and the Transportation Security Administration from cyberattacks. But when he decided to pursue a PhD on the security of emerging technologies, Worsham found American research gripped by “uncertainty.” Instead, he looked for opportunities elsewhere, and this summer moved to Norway to study at the University of Oslo.

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The number of confirmed cases of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has surged past 8,000 as the country runs out of health workers to contain the deadly disease. Congo announced an outbreak on May 15, caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has no known treatment or vaccine, and has struggled to contain it. The latest data from Congo’s health ministry released Sunday showed that 8,067 cases have been confirmed, with 3,901 deaths as of Sept. 26 across 63 health zones in seven of the country’s 26 provinces, with a fatality rate of more than 48%. Health workers tend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara Treatment Center in Ituri. Moses Sawasawa / AP file“The continuously high crude case fatality ratio, and especially the continuously high rate of deaths occurring in communities, highlights the seriousness of the disease and the persistent challenges in timely case detection and access to early and adequate patient care,” the World Health Organization said in its latest report. It means that a large percentage of those infected were dying, without taking into account factors like delay in seeking help and response, or hidden cases.

The Black Nile — a duo composed of Inglewood brothers Lawrence and Aaron Shaw — are about to play their biggest hometown show yet when they open for Erykah Badu at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday. The brothers were connected with Badu through L. A. artist Lauren Halsey. It was a fitting introduction because the convergence of visual art and music was all around the band as they recorded their most recent album, “Indigo Garden,” inspired by a residency they did at Mass MoCA in Massachusetts. “The long legacy and history of visual arts with music, they are hand in hand because in some ways they elevate each other,” Lawrence says. “The experience is elevated when you attach visuals to music and audio to visuals and being surrounded, in that environment where it’s nothing but creatives, it really brought us back, in a lot of ways, to childhood because that’s how we grew up in a lot of jazz camps and a lot of art camps.” Shaped by a MASS MoCA residency and collaborations with artists Lauren Halsey and Charles Gaines, Black Nile’s new album “Indigo Garden” fuses immersive visuals, lighting and jazz into a single, living installation.

EXCLUSIVE: Empire Studios, Rascal Entertainment, Green 13 Films and VMI Worldwide have partnered on Snow Predator, a survival thriller directed by Coz Greenop. The film has been written by Charley McDougall and is currently shooting at Shinfield Studios in the UK.

The caribou were released into the Tonquin Valley in June. Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada has five special new inhabitants: one caribou (Rangifer tarandus) bull and four caribou calves.

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Skip to mainMon, September 28, 2026 at 9:50 p.m. UTCOntario Big City Mayors are asking the province to review the Mental Health Act and the Health Care Consent Act — and Windsor city council unanimously agrees. CBC's Dalson Chen tells us more.

Key PointsCandace Cameron Bure's son Lev and his wife Elliott have welcomed their first child together. The baby boy, who was born 10 weeks early, is named Bond Leo Bure. "We are blessed beyond measure!!!! " Elliott wrote. Candace Cameron Bure is officially a grandma! In an Instagram post on Sunday, the Full House alum's son Lev announced that he and his wife Elliott welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Bond Leo Bure, last month. "Bond was born 10 weeks early at exactly three lbs and was transferred immediately to the NICU," Elliott wrote. "Through lots of tears, countless prayers, and what felt like endless hours in the hospital, 5 weeks and 5 days later we finally brought our miracle boy home!! "The 25-year-old also thanked "the entire staff of nurses and doctors who took the most incredible care of our baby," adding, "And to our community who we couldn't have done any of it without! "She continued, "Thank you Jesus for every answered prayer!!!!! We are blessed beyond measure!!!! "Alongside her note, Elliott shared a collection of snapshots of Bond spending quality time with his parents in the hospital.