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download

[daun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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Further information, including a recent download from Lucy's mobile phone, contained information which "we believe are relevant to the circumstances leading up to her death."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Attackers avoid these filters by using open-source models, which anyone can download and strip of safeguards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

So-called open AI models, which anyone can download and modify, are close behind closed models such as Claude or ChatGPT, which are available only through their owners' paid services.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

The PHP Foundation, which manages the programming language, released its software fix and there was a scramble for people to download it.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

With the upgraded download she will be Zeta-2 for the rest of her life.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

These giant, warehouse-like buildings power virtually all our internet activity, from our web searches and emails to movie downloads and online banking.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Younger audiophiles revived the medium from the dead starting in 2008 for many reasons, the simplest being that digital downloads don’t include eye-popping cover art.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

But downloads have started to slow and its retention lags that of ChatGPT after 14 days, Sensor Tower data shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

As Wang’s posts gained traction and Muse racked up downloads, the app also drew attention for alleged privacy and security concerns—a longtime Achilles’ heel for the company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“This thingy counts every step, and then at midnight it downloads so we can check each other’s numbers. First one who goes over or under ten thousand loses.”

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

He downloaded tide apps, readied himself with sandbags and felt prepared for this week’s return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

More than 10 million people in the U.S. and Canada have downloaded the Muse app, Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Muse, which Meta launched in September and has made available only in the United States and Canada, has been downloaded more than 10 million times, according to an analysis of third-party data by Sensor Tower.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

While DeepSeek's free chatbot app is one of the most downloaded apps in the Apple App Store rankings, its AI models are also used by US tech companies.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

I had downloaded it after reading Marcus’s first letter.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

In the UK, downloading or streaming pirated content can be a crime.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Hundreds of thousands responded by downloading the app; by Monday, MapQuest had climbed to No. 1 among navigation apps in Apple’s U.S.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

And I was downloading podcasts in 15-minute increments to my iPod Nano.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The immediate risk is a “harvest now, decrypt later” approach by bad actors, who are downloading large sets of encrypted data they can’t crack now—but could unlock once quantum computing algorithms are good enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

I fly through the reams of data for each of them, downloading and storing, organizing them into folders.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu


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