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Compass Pathways got that rolling review in April 2026 for COMP360, its psilocybin treatment, plus a Commissioner's National Priority Voucher, a fast-track pass for the review itself. Per Psychedelics Today's weekly policy briefing and the company's own Q2 release, Compass expects to finish the submission in Q4 2026 and says the voucher could shorten review to one or two months.

The evidence it is filing: in its COMP006 trial, 39% of participants reached a clinically meaningful drop on the MADRS, a standard depression rating scale, at Week 6, and on average kept that improvement through at least Week 26. The company reported $433.3 million in cash at June 30.

Where things stand: neither psilocybin nor MDMA is approved as a medicine yet.

The caveat, said lightly: these numbers come from the company, and the Q4 date is Compass's expectation, not an FDA commitment. A finished filing starts the review; it does not decide it.

Maria Schönbächler's team at ETH Zurich listened for that accent in a piece of the asteroid Bennu: half a gram of the roughly 120 grams NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought home on Sept 23, 2023. They measured isotopes of iron, titanium and chromium and compared them with samples from the asteroid Ryugu and with a well-studied group of meteorites known as CI meteorites.

All three share chemical fingerprints from one common reservoir of ancient dust. The team proposes these bodies formed near the water-ice line, the distance from the young Sun beyond which water freezes, where material from the inner and outer Solar System mixed. Jupiter, they suggest, may have screened out the larger particles. "Bennu is a hybrid," Schönbächler says.

Think of a smoothie made right on the border between two farms: some fruit from each side, blended at the fence. That is the picture of Bennu's birthplace the isotopes point to.

The caveat: this is a proposal about where these bodies formed, inferred from matching fingerprints, not a direct view of their birth, and it rests on one team's measurements of a small sample. The study is in Science Advances; we read it through ScienceDaily's posting of the ETH Zurich release.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released a panorama, stitched from six photos by Curiosity's Mastcam camera, of a band of yardangs stretching about 10 miles (16 km) across the northwest flank of Mount Sharp, a mountain roughly 3 miles tall. The photos were taken on Aug 11, 2026, which the team logs as sol 4,982 (a sol is one Martian day).

The rover has been climbing. Curiosity has recently gained 0.6 miles (1 km) in elevation, more than any other Mars rover. That climb is why it can now see this layer at all.

What is the wall made of? Scientists suspect the layer is ancient volcanic ash. Ash is a useful suspect because it records an eruption, a moment in the planet's history you can try to read.

The caveat: ash is the working guess, not a result. The team plans a close look in 2027, with no firm date yet, and until then the panorama is a beautiful question rather than an answer.

Dance Magazine's Natalie Albaran recaps how it ended. On Sept 20 at the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles, LA's GRV beat Vancouver's previously undefeated Brotherhood by 0.43 of a point, on a 100-point scale. That is a photo finish.

Then the twist that shows how a league differs from a contest: prize money is split by season standings, not by the final alone. Brotherhood took $200,000 and GRV $180,000. Lose the night, win the season.

The league reports an ESPN media-rights deal (the right to broadcast its events), more than 2 billion social views, and a finals that sold out in 15 minutes. Those are the league's figures.

Not everyone is cheering everything. Criticisms include community-division contests that were not streamed and questions about the scoring format. The league created a Cultural and Historical Advisory Board, including Buddha Stretch and Latasha Barnes, to keep the culture in view.

Pointe reports that Natalia Makarova, now 86, restaged the Act III grand divertissement of Paquita (a showcase suite of dances, there to dazzle rather than to move a plot) for American Ballet Theatre's fall season at Lincoln Center, Oct 21 to 31. She coached three principal couples herself.

The room had history in it. Makarova worked with rehearsal director Nancy Raffa, whom she cast at 15 in 1980 opposite Fernando Bujones, and with artistic director Susan Jaffe. The performances are dedicated to Bujones' memory.

Think of a family recipe taught at the stove instead of copied from a card: the grandmother who learned it is in the kitchen, and so is the cousin she first taught decades ago.

The caveat is a small one: our account comes from Pointe's feature, not from ABT's own page, so check the company's listings for which couples dance which nights. The run closes Oct 31.

Social Media Today reports YouTube's announcement, posted in the YouTube Help Community forum, that it is "updating our recommendation systems to further prioritize original content" in Shorts. Channels that mainly aggregate or re-upload other creators' videos without meaningful changes will likely get less distribution.

YouTube's guidance is short: if you use another creator's clips, "make sure you're adding real value." The article notes Instagram made a similar move in April 2026, so the two biggest short-video feeds are leaning the same way.

Think of an open-mic night that has started favoring people doing their own material over people reading someone else's jokes aloud. Commentary, remixes and reactions can still count; what loses out is the straight repost.

The caveat, lightly: this comes from one outlet relaying a forum post, and we did not open YouTube's post itself. YouTube gave no numbers and no effective date, so nobody can yet say how big the shift is or when it lands.

A new report from Rightscenter, a platform where book rights are offered to film and TV buyers, says otherwise. Its "Book-to-Screen Marketplace Insights, 2019-2026" finds that backlist titles are nearly two-thirds of all requests from studios, producers and scouts. Requests for international stories rose 3.5 times on the previous year, and female protagonists appear in 48% of the titles of interest.

Co-owner Emily Parker puts it in five words: "A good book doesn't expire." Studios are not only rummaging in older piles; they are looking further afield, and that 3.5-times jump in requests for international stories says buyers are widening the map, not only digging deeper.

Think of a book on a shelf as a seed rather than a cut flower. A film adaptation can sprout from it years after publication, as long as someone is still looking at the shelf.

The caveat, said lightly: this is one rights platform's own data, reported by Publishing Perspectives, and it describes who asked on that platform, not every deal in Hollywood. Requests are interest, not purchases.

Invoices gain built-in taxes, invoice numbering you can customize, and multiple recipients on one invoice. For a business where two adults share a bill, that last one matters.

The email change is quieter but useful. Transactional emails are one-to-one messages triggered by something a customer did, like a reminder, a service update or a feedback request. Email Campaigns users can now send those from Automations without the customer having opted in to marketing. Think of it as the difference between a flyer and a receipt: the receipt does not need permission to arrive.

Also new: a unified Customer Profiles view (contact details, purchase history, spend totals, email and SMS opt-in status in one place) and Instant Bank Payments for Stripe users via Link.

The caveat: the post lists no Scheduling, Memberships or Courses updates, so anything booking-side stays where it was.

Version 2.1.304 added /auto-mode-setup, a guided setup that teaches auto mode about your project and your recent sessions. The same release added a warning on Pro and Max plans when resuming an idle conversation would use a noticeable share of the 5-hour usage limit, the rolling allowance those plans run on. Think of it as the fuel light coming on before you pull out, rather than halfway up the hill.

Version 2.1.307 added /claude-api api-version, a command that migrates code calling the Claude API to the API version dated 2026-10-21. It also added a claude_code.safety_event for OpenTelemetry (an open standard for sending an app's logs and measurements to monitoring tools), logged every time a rule, hook or sandbox stopped a tool call. In plain words: a record of every time a guardrail said no.

Version 2.1.310 brought the Monitor tool to Bedrock, Vertex and Foundry, the cloud platforms where companies run Claude through Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

The caveat: some release notes on the page were truncated, so this is the highlights, not the full list.

The labels' position: Universal Music Group and Sony's second suit, filed Sept 18, alleges that training Suno's v6 model on the outputs of its earlier models "launders" infringement, meaning that copying is said to pass through the older models and come out looking clean. The suit asserts 60,202 recordings.

Suno's position: it admits it "has not deleted all of the sound recordings it has used to train its AI models." It denies the remaining allegations of that paragraph, and says v6, launched Sept 9 with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, was trained on licensed content. It also admits users have been able to put artist names in prompts since January 2026, which it says are converted into style descriptions.

Think of it as two accounts of the same kitchen: the labels say the new dish was made with the old ingredients; Suno says the old ingredients are still in the pantry but the new dish used bought-in ones.

Separately, a class action led by Jason Isbell has a Suno response due Nov 3. The caveat: these are claims and answers in an open case. Nothing has been decided.

Smithsonian Magazine reports that a $15 million overpass, 200 feet wide and spanning six lanes, opened in December 2025. It is the largest of its kind in North America, and it completed a system of 14 miles of fencing and five underpasses.

The numbers: collisions fell 91% in the final year of a 2022-2024 study period. The stretch used to see roughly one wildlife-vehicle crash a day in spring and fall; only two have been reported in the ten months since the overpass opened. Elk, pronghorn, rabbits and northern leopard frogs have all been detected using it, and travel delays on the stretch dropped about 9%.

Think of it as a pedestrian bridge whose pedestrians include a frog and an elk on the same commute. CDOT's Chuck Attardo says such crossings "pay for themselves in about 15 years."

The caveat: the 91% figure comes from the study years, before the big overpass itself opened, and ten months is a short record for the finished system. Both point the same way, but the long-run number is still being written.