alarm
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In the current cyber landscape, frontier AI models are discovering bugs at machine speed—raising alarm bells among experts, who warn that when autonomous hacking models go rogue or attack companies, chaos is on the horizon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Germany, which supports Ukraine in its fight against Russia, has for months reported suspicious drone sightings over military and industrial sites, but the Leipzig incident raised the alarm as a drone found there carried explosives.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
The midwife raised the alarm and emergency teams began CPR immediately.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Watchdog groups focused on fiscal responsibility expressed alarm over the total national debt surpassing a huge milestone in August.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
He clawed at the pile of gold next to him as though he thought to strangle me with it, but then he shouted with alarm when he realized that he could not pick it up.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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The deal is also raising alarms within the industry about whether a new Venezuelan government could mount a successful legal challenge, and whether it might undercut new entrants’ confidence in making investments, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
If nothing else, this weather gives civilians a chance to study up on the NWS hierarchy of hot-weather alarms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
She urged ministers to look into a silent notifications, warning that "if alarms become frequent, victims may no longer feel safe keeping these phones".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Two weeks later, I noticed the fire and safety team walking through the prison, holding clipboards, testing alarms, and inspecting extinguishers.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Both false alarms and true warnings will be improved by knowing the difference between a bad day on the mountain and a positive signal that a volcano is on the brink of eruption.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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On top of that, Kedrosky is alarmed, he said, at the model convergence and diminishing returns of large language models’ performance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
"I wasn't alarmed by it, because, you know, he was a teacher and teachers are supposed to be trustworthy. I trusted him, I really did."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Then, investors grew alarmed by several high-profile defaults caused by alleged frauds, and by loans made to software companies at risk of disruption by artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
But Cohen was alarmed to learn that his discovery was now being promoted by legions of longevity seekers, fitness enthusiasts and wellness influencers as “exercise in a bottle.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Later, her letters alarmed him so much that he cabled her to say she should leave Riverbank right away.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Last week, more alarming details were revealed about a recent safety incident involving the company OpenAI, and the unexpected actions taken by an artificial intelligence thingamajig it was testing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
I walk down the street and I see an alarming number of people wearing weighted walking vests now, which is so frightening that it requires me to catch my breath every now and again.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
So, it is quite alarming when you look at the two league games Chelsea have played and see how much of the ball they haven't had.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But looking past the daily torrent of alarming headlines reveals another story worth telling.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
He was mostly skinny, which made his enormous beer belly even more alarming.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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