foundation
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They’re also the foundation of my current obsession: hibachi-style carrot-ginger dressing, which becomes almost laughably easy when you use frozen ginger and onion cubes, too.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Mercedes-Benz is bringing new conversational AI directly into cars, leveraging a family of foundation models from MIT spinout Liquid AI purpose-built for running on the edge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Although significant development is still needed before these materials can be widely used, the findings establish a stronger experimental foundation for future work on quantum technologies, computer memory, and more efficient data centers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
I just wanted people to understand my foundation of who I am and know that whatever I give them after that, this is who it’s coming from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Worst of all, if you wantonly divide by zero, you can destroy the entire foundation of logic and mathematics.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
"One of the foundations of democracy is the ability to have a peaceful transfer of power. This stems from the understanding that the will of the electorate obligates us all."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
“We are laying the foundations for a future that we believe will be fully electric, autonomous and AI-defined.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Cohere is led by Aidan Gomez, an AI researcher who co-authored a seminal paper that laid the foundations for modern AI systems, underscoring the role of the Canadian AI research ecosystem in the field's development.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Private-equity firms built the foundations of the debt wall in 2021, when low interest rates during the pandemic fueled a record year for megadeals like the $11.8 billion takeover of cybersecurity company McAfee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
If he had done nothing else, laying all these foundations of analytical mathematics would have made Descartes a key figure in seventeenth-century science.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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