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On August 2, 2026, Anthropic began embedding an invisible watermark in text generated by its newest Claude models. Models released on or after that date carry it automatically, and Anthropic says older models are being updated over time. The company explained the technol...

Identical twins. Same GPA, nearly identical test scores, different intended majors, and one shared goal: attending the same college together. The question their parents ask is the one every twin family eventually asks. Will colleges treat our kids as a package, or as two strangers who happen to share an address? The honest answer is both, and knowing exactly where each rule a...

On August 7, 2026, U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley rejected an attempt by 32 of the nation's most selective colleges to have the early decision lawsuit against them thrown out. The case, D'Amico v. Consortium on Financing Higher Education, t...

On August 6, 2026, Boston University announced the "BU Promise": beginning with students entering in fall 2026, families earning up to $200,000 a year with typical assets will pay no tuition. The program goes further than most headlines suggest. Families earning under $75,000 pay nothing at all, including housing and dining, and even at the top of the range, a family earning ...

The 2026–2027 Common App opened on August 1, and most of the attention, as usual, went to essay prompts and the renamed Activities and Experiences section. But a quieter requirement costs families an unbudgeted hour every fall: Courses and Grades, the section that asks students to recreate their entire high school transcript inside the application, course by course, grade by ...