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Victor Wembanyama will play in Game 4 on Sunday against the Trail Blazers after clearing concussion protocol.

It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a 1,600-year-old mummy’s abdomen — a surprising and first-of-its-kind find, experts said. Researchers from the University of Barcelona said a papyrus fragment written in Greek was discovered during an excavation of a Roman Empire-era Egyptian tomb. The fragment...

Is Anthropic Coming For eBay?

Late Friday afternoon, as most people were checking out for the weekend after nearly two months of U.S.-Iran war fatigue, Anthropic quietly released a note titled "Project Deal." The company built a closed marketplace where AI agents negotiated prices, struck deals, and completed real transactions with money changing hands.

"We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues' behalf," Anthropic wrote on X.

New Anthropic research: Project Deal.

We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf. pic.twitter.com/H2f6cLDlAW

— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) April 24, 2026

The results: Claude agents made 186 deals across more than 500 listed items on a Slack-based marketplace, totaling just over $4,000 in transaction value.

But the quality of the model mattered a lot. In the simulated runs where Opus and Haiku models negotiated with one-another, the Opus models got substantially better deals.

Interestingly, though, participants in our survey didn’t pick up on this disparity. pic.twitter.com/X26hhIieJN

— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) April 24, 2026

Anthropic's point is that AI-to-AI commerce offers an early look at the coming agentic economy, where AI bots negotiate with other bots in a marketplace to strike the best deal.

Claude interviewed 69 of our colleagues about what they wanted to buy and sell. Each Claude asked for any custom instructions, then went off to haggle.

We ran 4 markets in parallel, to find out what would happen if we varied the models doing the negotiating. pic.twitter.com/FJdD6S2TSd

— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) April 24, 2026

AI disruption has already hammered software stocks. Now, as Polymarket Money pointed out, "eBay's leadership team is seeing this," referring to Project Deal.

eBay's leadership team seeing this: pic.twitter.com/Hg0KMdhC5z

— Polymarket Money (@PolymarketMoney) April 24, 2026

Shortly after Project Deal's release, eBay shares fell about 4.5% by Friday's close in New York.

Does this mean Anthropic is now coming for eBay?

Tyler Durden Sun, 04/26/2026 - 15:45

Downtown Napa is testing an alternative.

The Red Sox's shock firing of Alex Cora was "necessary" in the eyes of team president Sam Kennedy, but the move is seemingly not sitting well with players.

Becerra has repeatedly denied knowledge of the scheme, and has not been accused of wrongdoing.

The couple was photographed at the Chateau Marmont and appeared to be in good spirits despite the rapper's recent cancelled concerts.

The couple was photographed at the Chateau Marmont and appeared to be in good spirits despite the rapper's recent cancelled concerts.

The illicit activity at Queens' Powell's Cove Park -- which has included homeowners chopping down city trees to improve their vistas, as The Post previously reported -- has only surged as warm weather creeps in, outraged locals lament.

Video from the scene shows the locomotive plowing straight into the SUV, ripping it apart in a violent explosion of metal and debris that left bystanders fearing the worst.

“The entire hoax of Trump and Charlottesville” was “built upon another grand lie” — that “the ‘Unite the Right’ rally was organized and financed by the highly partisan, left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.”

Four men were shot and wounded by gunfire inside a notorious Queens nightclub with a track record of gun violence, cops said.  Bullets turned the dance floor inside Amadeus nightclub in Elmhurst into a bloodbath around 3:40 a.m. on Sunday, according to the NYPD.  When cops arrived, they found two 28-year-old men who’d been hit...

The Royals could sweep the series against the Angels with a win tonight.

ICE Nabs Illegal Alien Pedophile In Virginia; Sanctuary Officials Ignored Detainer

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

ICE has arrested an illegal alien child sex predator in Abigail Spanberger’s Virginia. Authorities there tried to protect him by declining an ICE detainer last year and releasing him back into the community.

Of course they did.

The suspect, Roni Mendez-Escobar, a Guatemalan national, faced charges including multiple felony counts of possession of obscene material and child pornography with intent to distribute.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! ICE has just arrested an illegal alien CHILD S*X PREDATOR in Abigail Spanberger's Virginia

She tried to PROTECT him.

She ran as a "moderate." In practice, she's letting kids get abused by illegals!

FOX: "Virginia authorities declined an ICE detainer for him last… pic.twitter.com/54Zvfc9PJq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 24, 2026

Fairfax County’s refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement allowed him to remain free despite the detainer – exactly the outcome sanctuary policies are designed to produce.

This isn’t an isolated failure. It’s the predictable result of Virginia Democrats turning the state into a magnet for criminal illegal aliens while American families bear the cost. Spanberger ran as a “moderate,” yet her administration’s moves to limit cooperation with ICE have repeatedly put Virginia children and residents at risk.

Just weeks ago, ICE urged Spanberger not to release another criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, Misael Lopez Gomez, who allegedly bludgeoned his own three-month-old daughter to death with blunt force trauma in Fairfax.

⚖️🚨NIGHTMARE IN VIRGINIA

A 3 month-old girl is dead.

GOP lawmakers and the Department of Homeland Security is blaming "lax" Democrat ‘Sanctuary’ policies after two illegal immigrants were charged in two separate, gruesome slayings.

Gustamalan national Misael Lopez Gomez, is… https://t.co/iEUbISHkyt pic.twitter.com/quFI5bTlip

— Tosca Austen (@ToscaAusten) April 8, 2026

As DHS stated: “This cold-blooded killer murdered his own three-month-old daughter. We are calling on Governor Spanberger to commit to not releasing this barbaric animal from jail into Virginia communities.”

The media is RUNNING COVER for an illegal alien MURDERER.

Misael Lopez Gomez is NOT a “Virginia dad.” He is an illegal alien from Guatemala and a cold-blooded killer accused of murdering his own three-month-old daughter. pic.twitter.com/Ex5HuolKtl

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) April 2, 2026

That horror came one day after another Guatemalan illegal alien, Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, was arrested for fatally stabbing a man to death with a machete in Fairfax County.

In March, an 18-year-old illegal migrant from El Salvador, Israel Flores Ortiz – released into the U.S. under Biden policies – posed as an 11th grader at Fairfax High School and groped at least 12 girls in the hallways over several months.

A victim’s mother described it: “He just sneakily walked up behind them and put his hand in between their legs… It was a groping of a private area. It had been occurring for several months.” Fairfax officials tried to downplay it and even fought ICE’s detainer.

And before that, Virginia mother Stephanie Minter was murdered in cold blood at a bus stop by an illegal alien from Sierra Leone with more than 30 prior arrests.

Each case traces back to the same refusal to honor ICE detainers, the same sanctuary rules pushed under Spanberger that prioritize criminal non-citizens over public safety. Local officials in Fairfax and Arlington have repeatedly ignored federal requests, releasing predators and killers back onto the streets.

This isn’t compassion – it’s complicity. Democrats continue to handcuff law enforcement and invite chaos across the border.

Virginia families didn’t vote for this. They deserve borders that work, laws that put citizens first, and leaders who actually protect them instead of shielding the very people preying on their children.

Sanctuary policies must end. Cooperation with ICE must resume. Deportations of criminal illegal aliens cannot be optional. American lives – especially the most vulnerable – depend on it.

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Tyler Durden Sun, 04/26/2026 - 15:10

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Two African runners broke the two-hour mark at the London Marathon, the first time the threshold was broken at an officially sanctioned race.

The legendary actress held on to a male companion as she exited the restaurant.

The iconic actress held on to a male companion as she exited the restaurant.

The Dodgers have a new injury concern to monitor with one of their star players. After missing Saturday’s game because of back tightness, catcher Will Smith was once again out of the team’s lineup Sunday — though manager Dave Roberts said he didn’t believe the issue would require an injured list stint. Dodgers starting catcher Will...

The Celtics vs. 76ers series has exceeded expectations so far.