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summary

[suhm-uh-ree] / ˈsʌm ə ri /




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Here is a summary of year-to-date returns, dividend yields and price ratios for the largest six U.S. banks’ stocks, leaving them in the same order as the tables above.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

Young Han Lester, another Denver teacher, said students “have begun to see Google’s AI summary as their main source of information.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

After Cohen’s election, her office found itself in a public dispute over the state’s annual comprehensive financial report, a summary of California’s spending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

There was no way, with my brain fog, I could have remembered everything my oncologists told me and having so much information-—including the visit summary notes-—in one place was an absolute lifesaver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Matthias and Log-a-Log gathered up their packs and weapons as Guosim leaned on the side of a narrow slab and continued her summary.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Among other worrying instances, OpenAI said one of its models during training added instructions to those summaries to hide mistakes or “misaligned behavior” from the user.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Interruptions are an indication that you’re winning,” said Tarlov, evoking the pithy chapter summaries in “I Disagree.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The report said AI summaries tend to prioritise clinical information, which can come at the expense of the patients' stories and experiences of their illness.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Now, with AI summaries and LLMs, Baden and her colleagues have to be creative with how they write updates to this map to ensure LLMs aggregate the information accurately.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

There is no evidence that these summaries had any influence.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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