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Microsoft has begun a program to produce “frontier” models to compete with ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and some Chinese models.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

"The next two years we will have an architect team in place and they have begun the planning phase," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Department of Transportation have begun exploring replacing the existing funding structure with a simpler VMT tax that better aligns use with costs and better approximates the real price of roads.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

She’d begun painting only months earlier, after being injured in a traffic accident that maimed her for life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

All my troubles had begun with the miller.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff