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That’s gonna happen in billions of years, if at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Over billions of years, this primordial collection of MN-zymes may have slowly evolved, renewed itself, and become increasingly sophisticated.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

He also worries about persistent liabilities tied to cleaning up so-called forever chemicals, PFAS, which 3M once produced and have been found in water supplies. 3M has reserved billions of dollars for cleanup.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

And they are nuclear explosions billions of miles away.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon