inner workings

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The trial revealed more than a decade’s worth of corporate documents, private message exchanges and even private journal entries, giving unprecedented insight into the sometimes chaotic inner workings of OpenAI.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Hundreds of legal documents unsealed in recent months as part of the OpenAI lawsuit have offered a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Silicon Valley elite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

This has been partly driven by DeepSeek's decision to make its systems open source, with their inner workings public -- in contrast to the proprietary models sold by OpenAI and other Western rivals.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

As a result, the crisis "has thrown a proverbial wrench into the inner workings of the aviation fuel markets", the IEA said.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

With his acute sense of the ship’s inner workings, he should have been able to sniff out two stowaways as soon as they boarded.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee