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download

[daun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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Open-weight models, which anyone can download and run on his own hardware and strip of their safety controls, trail the closed frontier by mere months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

After building trust with the subject through the sharing of social media photos and videos, they asked the engineer to download a test exercise as part of the interview process.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Further information, including a recent download from Lucy's mobile phone, contained information which "we believe are relevant to the circumstances leading up to her death."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Attackers avoid these filters by using open-source models, which anyone can download and strip of safeguards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

It would take a day to download an album.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Meta has taken pole position there with its Muse agent, which has amassed over 10 million downloads since it launched in September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

These giant, warehouse-like buildings power virtually all our internet activity, from our web searches and emails to movie downloads and online banking.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Younger audiophiles revived the medium from the dead starting in 2008 for many reasons, the simplest being that digital downloads don’t include eye-popping cover art.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

But downloads have started to slow and its retention lags that of ChatGPT after 14 days, Sensor Tower data shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

This Harlem free Wi-Fi was sooo slow for downloads.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

But I hadn’t downloaded the Tesla app to access the magic adapter the Kia needed to charge there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Bumble is one of the world's most downloaded dating apps, operating in a crowded market where growth has slowed.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Since Dub’s founding in 2021, 2 million people have downloaded it and placed $1.6 billion in copy trades.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

But the decision "cannot remove copies already downloaded or prevent people from continuing to use them", said Poe Zhao, founder of the analysis publication Hello China Tech.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

I downloaded every game mentioned or referenced in the Almanac, from Akalabeth to Zaxxon.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Last week, the attorney general pitched a new bill that would include required age determination and parental consent for minors downloading apps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Jobseekers are being warned to be vigilant as scammers are targeting people on job listings websites to trick them into downloading bogus interview tools.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Hundreds of thousands responded by downloading the app; by Monday, MapQuest had climbed to No. 1 among navigation apps in Apple’s U.S.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Holographic, or handwritten, wills are legal in about half of the states in the U.S, including Texas, but it’s not worth writing a will on the cheap or downloading one from the internet.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Apart from movies, weekends were constructed around some new Net or Web project—trying out a just-purchased game, downloading new software, collecting and listening to music, installing a new operating system.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz


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