inner workings

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Hundreds of legal documents unsealed in recent months as part of the OpenAI lawsuit have offered a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Silicon Valley elite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

This has been partly driven by DeepSeek's decision to make its systems open source, with their inner workings public -- in contrast to the proprietary models sold by OpenAI and other Western rivals.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

As a result, the crisis "has thrown a proverbial wrench into the inner workings of the aviation fuel markets", it said.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

The inner workings of cartels are intentionally opaque to the outside world.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

I know the inner workings of all things biological down to the cellular level.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman