ability
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Parish said McNeil is "a player with proven ability in the Premier League".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Rather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it," Zuckerberg wrote, arguing that open models are a key part of a global AI ecosystem.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“This transaction adds to our decades-long commitment to the country and is another example of our ability to provide flexible, efficient capital solutions to leading businesses around the world,” he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the coming months, users will also have the ability to report artist profiles as potential AI personas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
And Oliver had this strange ability to notice me, an invisible girl.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
“We felt like this was the way that we could take all of our storytelling abilities and apply it to this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"With dogs, the story is totally different. They followed a very different evolutionary path, but through domestication, they developed the social abilities needed to understand and cooperate with us."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Using digital reconstructions of the space that once held the bird's brain, scientists were able to examine clues about the dodo's sensory abilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
The development punctuates a series of disclosures of incidents in which advanced AI models escaped from testing environments and behaved in unforeseen ways, raising questions about companies’ abilities to constrain their increasingly capable creations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Despite society’s misconceptions about my abilities as an African-American Muslim woman who wears hijab, I defied the odds.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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