damage control
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The Navy acknowledged the reports of toilet problems in a statement last month, but cited ship leadership as saying that "clog incidents are addressed promptly by trained damage control and engineering personnel, with minimal downtime."
From Barron's
In the days after OpenAI signed its contract with the Pentagon, the company went into damage control mode.
Amodei apologized for the comment and said Anthropic would go to court to fight the supply-chain risk designation, but he will likely have to do more damage control to co-exist with the administration moving forward.
But by the time he got there, his monologue had been transformed from a pure celebration of his overnight success into an exercise in damage control.
From Salon
Such damage control could revive their stocks after this year’s brutal selloff, driven by fears that AI would render software and services providers irrelevant.
From Barron's
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