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LeCun says that AMI Labs will spend the rest of this year refining their AI model and next year hopes that it will be put to use, at first in industrial settings.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026

Thomas’ dissent is, in many respects, more emotionally complex than either his admirers or his critics, like me, were at first blush ready to admit.

From Slate • Jul. 2, 2026

And it does seem like a steep sentence, for contact that wasn’t even given a yellow card at first, and which, when decelerated in granular slow-mo, looks worse than it actually was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

Warsh may be more of a dove on rates than he appears at first glance.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

‘It was really slow at first, the way things got worse,’ Gabi says.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler