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[kop-ee] / ˈkɒp i /






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Anthropic could spend as much as $750 billion on AI compute capacity in the coming years, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited a copy of its draft IPO prospectus.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

A compounded GLP-1 is made when a pharmacy formulates a custom-made version or copy of the drug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Approximately one in five people carries at least one copy of this gene variant.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

“It was impossible to get. Our video store had only one copy, and there was a waiting list. It took us about three or four months,” says Phoenix-area corrections officer Steve Taris.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The Louvre was also a sort of art studio, where amateurs came to copy the paintings of the greats.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

He suggests saving copies of a lease agreement and any evidence you actually paid the rent, like a receipt or cancelled check.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

The court was told the two digital copies of the atlas are incomplete.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Moving between Hodges’ five paintings at the Getty and the 17th century works that inspired them in the next room, it’s clear the contemporary canvases are neither copies nor straightforward homages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

It calls the search “neither justified nor lawful” and asks that copies of any video or audio recordings made in the home be shared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Dr. Zinchenko? Don’t we have two dozen copies of that book?”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

Anthropic stored Elvis’ songs “into a permanent, general-purpose central library intended to be retained indefinitely, from which subsets were selected and copied again to train the next generation of Claude models,” the lawsuit contends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

These real-money portfolios — tracked via public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosures and linked accounts — can be copied for a $9.99 monthly subscription fee.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

When the instructions are copied into RNA, the letter T is replaced by U. Consequently, the corresponding stop codons in RNA are written as UAA, UAG, and UGA.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Just as long as they're somewhere that stops the code from being copied," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

In 1646 Thomas Browne collected numerous examples from Greek and Roman authors of texts being copied wholesale and reissued under another author’s name.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Highlighting worries about the technology, Smith pointed to a recent Anthropic report suggesting small AI models may be only months away from behaving like computer worms, copying themselves from one internet-connected device to the next.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

But in the 1800s, no one could make a YouTube video accusing another creator of copying their slipper pattern, or debate English vs.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

The complaint takes issue with the song’s “repeated copying of the distinctively protectable melody” and alleges the musicians “clearly infringed” on the copyrights related to Withers’ Grammy-winning song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

He concluded "that the works contain substantial similarities" including the "repeated copying" of the melody from Just The Two of Us, the documents said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Instead, he’s busy copying something down from the computer.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden


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