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frontier

[fruhn-teer, fron-, fruhn-teer] / frʌnˈtɪər, frɒn-, ˈfrʌn tɪər /




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For now, hyperscalers are shouldering the cost of financing frontier AI labs that, as Storm put it, “do not have a credible path to profitability.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

While frontier AI labs and major cloud-services providers compete to make and serve the best models, at the end of the day, their heavy spending benefits Nvidia, Behan said in emailed comments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

To make sure it doesn’t burn down civilization, he pitched an industry-funded body that would operate under federal oversight and test frontier models before they’re released.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The South later resumed border loudspeaker broadcasts for the first time in six years, including K-pop and international news, while the North began transmitting strange, eerie sounds across the frontier, unsettling South Korean residents.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Me and Katherine still wear our finery from the night we were shanghaied, and these things I’m wearing are for looking pretty, not strolling through a frontier town.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

The DMZ is one of the world's most heavily fortified frontiers, and landmine incidents have previously heightened tensions between the two countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Although the research focused on two regions of the Amazon, the scientists say its conclusions may also apply to tropical deforestation frontiers elsewhere in the world.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Actually, I take that back – consulting her most devoted fans will open new frontiers for you.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Srinivasan is an advocate of boosting Earth’s birthrate, in part to settle new frontiers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

And the other, fainter galaxies must be more distant still, a hundred billion of them, sprinkled through the dark to the frontiers of the known Cosmos.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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