Including 2027’s best colleges, a partnership for Royal Caribbean and Sandals Resorts, and ALDI’s first-ever ready-made meals.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists and consumers stay on top of the week’s most newsworthy and popular releases, here’s a recap of some major stories from the week that shouldn’t be missed.

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1. MIT Claims No. 1 Spot in U.S. News 2027 Best Colleges Rankings
   The 2027 edition introduces significant methodology changes designed to address growing public concerns regarding higher education affordability and long-term value. Chief among these is the new Earnings by Major ranking factor, which evaluates graduate earnings four years post-graduation using data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard.
2. Royal Caribbean Group and Sandals Resorts Announce Landmark Partnership to Accelerate Their Leading Vacation Experiences
   United in a shared history in the Caribbean and connected by a love for their communities, the companies will offer travelers an unparalleled collection of cruise, private destination and resort experiences, serving guests across more vacation occasions and establishing their undisputed leadership in Caribbean vacations.
3. Casio to Release Limited-Edition Timepiece Celebrating MR-G 30th Anniversary.
   To commemorate the 30 years since the debut of MR-G in 1996, Casio drew from metal leaf, embodying tradition and innovation. The design expresses a strength that transcends time through the theme of haruka (eternity). Metal leaf artist Hiroto Rakusho created an original artwork, which together with the timepiece design brings the world of haruka to life.
4. Basecamp Research raises $140M to advance AI-designed therapeutics
   Basecamp’s ambition is to develop cures for diseases that remain incurable by designing medicines that reprogram the body to repair itself. The company combines frontier AI models trained on proprietary biological data with technology for writing DNA sequences into cells.
5. Georgia Power agreement with Google to provide approximately $900 million in projected benefits for customers and advance nuclear energy in Georgia
   Under the agreement, which is subject to approval by the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), Google will support uprates on Georgia Power’s owned portion of the nuclear units at Plants Vogtle and Hatch that will allow the facilities to add approximately 96 megawatts of new capacity to the electric grid to serve Georgia Power customers. 
6. Handshake launches first AI Skills Studio to prepare job seekers for the AI economy
   AI Skills Studio offers personalized, project-based “missions” that take between 10 and 45 minutes to complete. Learners work in the AI tools used by practitioners, with an AI Skills Instructor providing guidance and feedback along the way. Every mission ends with something tangible the learner has built, from an automated workflow to a working piece of software. 
7. ALDI Launches First-Ever Collection of Ready-Made Meals
   The seven new ready-made meals include five single-serve options and two family-size meals featuring protein-forward, filling dishes, comforting classics and globally inspired recipes. Single-serve meals under $8 and family-size offerings under $15 give shoppers affordable options with restaurant-quality flavor and texture at the center of each recipe. The collection begins rolling out in early October, available nationwide by January 2027.
8. Fat Bear Week 2026 Brings the World Together to Celebrate Wildlife and Conservation
   The annual competition puts the remarkable brown bears of Brooks River in the global spotlight, inviting viewers to follow their journeys, discover their stories, and celebrate the strength, adaptability, and resilience of life in the wild.
9. New IBM CHRO Study: AI Puts Critical Thinking at the Center of Workforce Priorities
   While 71% of Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) identify the ability to supervise, validate and override AI outputs as the workforce’s most essential skill, only 29% of employees rank judgment as important.
10. Teal Health Raises $22 Million Series A to Expand Access to the Most Accurate FDA-Authorized At-Home HPV Cervical Cancer Screening
    The financing brings Teal Health’s total funding to $45 million. It arrives at a critical moment where nearly one in three U.S. women isn’t up to date on screening, largely due to physician shortages causing limited appointment availability and therefore making the traditional in-office screening difficult to access. 
11. MONOPOLY® Returns to McDonald’s: Score Bigger Prizes, More Rewards and Easier Gameplay
    Starting Oct. 6 for a limited time, fans can play the game they know and love with a simplified experience and one-of-a-kind prize list. With all the pieces in your hands, fans will now have just one way to peel, with all gameplay done in the app. Peel the game pieces, then scan in the app to cash in instant-win food or loyalty points or play for the biggest prizes.
12. Cognex to Acquire RealSense, Expanding Machine Vision Leadership into High-Growth Robotic Perception Market
    “Combined with Cognex’s machine vision expertise and global reach, RealSense positions us to offer a full-stack visual intelligence platform, spanning industrial ID, 2D and 3D machine vision measurement to 3D depth perception and robotic navigation, built to serve the full spectrum of Physical AI,” said Matt Moschner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cognex.
13. Athletic Brewing Company and Graza Cook Up Non-Alcoholic Collaboration Brew, ‘Cold Off The Press’
    A classic pils with floral, herbal, and lemon aromas and a remarkably clean, dry finish, the brewing process for Cold Off The Press began with extra virgin olive oil, which nourishes the yeast that helps shape the brew.

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