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incident

[in-si-duhnt] / ˈɪn sɪ dənt /


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The league, Saltburn, Norton and the England and Wales Cricket Board have all declined to comment on the incident.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Leading the Future worked to defeat New York state assemblyman Alex Bores, who sponsored the state’s new AI law, which aimed to impose safety measures on developers, such as security protocols and incident reports.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Both OpenAI, the hacker, and the victim, Hugging Face, have portrayed the response to this incident as a collaboration.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

"We have robust processes in place to protect information and took swift action to contain this incident", a DfE spokesperson said.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

A short while later, Chess Life, in describing the incident, chose to find in it an augury of things to come.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Metr, a nonprofit that measures the capabilities of AIs, has documented 44 incidents of AI agents acting against user intent.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

There is an important, material connection between these incidents: AI.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

In two separate incidents, it alerted guards to men standing on rooftops who were able to be talked down, chief product officer Yuka Suzuki said.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

On Sunday, Bali Governor I Wayan Koster vowed to take "strict action" to ensure such incidents do not happen again.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

"There have been some incidents lately," Tía Carmen says in a quiet voice that does not brook contradiction.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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