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foundation

[foun-dey-shuhn] / faʊnˈdeɪ ʃən /




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The foundation said it is "co-operating fully" with the inquiry and had filed a serious incident report with the watchdog before it was launched.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

While investor attention often centers on hardware, humanoid development relies on compute layers— simulation to generate synthetic data, foundation model training to build perception-to-action intelligence, and on-robot inference under tight latency, the bank notes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

"By enabling heat to be guided, focused and redistributed with nanoscale precision at room temperature, the discovery establishes a foundation for quantum thermal engineering."

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

Under the warrant, county officials were also inspecting the property to determine whether the foundation was in compliance with building and land use codes and regulations.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Meta’s Muse Glimmer advances the foundations of that economy, with a focus on principles such as end-to-end agentic task competition and failure recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Disclosure: Google and Punchbowl News have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

On schist foundations, cautious engineers knew to build in safety features like a series of cut-off trenches and drainage pipes — a step Mulholland had neglected.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

As much as his aggressive side pressed high, and got the ball forward quickly, they also had solid defensive foundations and no other team conceded fewer goals in the Saudi Pro League last season.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Many governments, agencies, and foundations base their policies, foreign aid, and loans on this explanation, by making the development of good institutions in poor countries their top priority.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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