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He was blocked from doing so earlier this year by the NEC.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Warren Pies, co-founder of 3Fourteen Research, pointed out that the availability of computing power cratered earlier this year as major AI players scrambled to release their latest models.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

A Goldman Sachs partner who worked closely with Low received a two-year sentence last year, and another bank executive was earlier given a 10-year sentence.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

“I’d like to be remembered as someone who really tried to make things better,” the writer told his Observer editor earlier this year, according to the AP.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Chip and Katherine hadn’t played a soccer game or pedaled quite as frantically as Jonah had earlier, but neither of them seemed any more eager than he was to speed home.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix