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McCallum said he was concerned about AI being used to create personal content tailored to radicalizing specific individuals, or help terror groups plot their attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 13, 2026
Analysts have said the film was challenging to market, given a major twist in the plot, and that Cruise’s nearly unrecognizable appearance could have dissuaded his fan base from coming out to support the film.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 12, 2026
Earlier this year a police chief said he was "deeply sorry" over missed opportunities to potentially uncover the plot to attack the synagogue.
From BBC β Oct. 12, 2026
He visited three times — once on business — in the months leading up to his family trust’s July 2021 purchase of a plot in the ski town of Eden.
From Salon β Oct. 11, 2026
Though John Surratt had been a conspirator in the kidnapping plot, he was not even in Washington on the evening of the assassination.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
A Greenpeace report published this month identified businesses based in Singapore and Malaysia which are linked to plots of land in Indonesia where wildfires are burning.
From BBC β Oct. 13, 2026
The chart plots the countries where their economic forecasts were revised upwards from January with those that were revised downwards.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 13, 2026
The U.S. removed all its B-1 bombers from the U.K.’s RAF Fairford air base, a decision stemming from security concerns over suspected terror plots against the facility, American officials said Sunday.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 4, 2026
Hundreds of survey plots were established and thousands of seedlings were monitored.
From Science Daily β Oct. 4, 2026
The house plots were modest, typically about six thousand square feet, but they were footholds on the dream.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Their unlikely enemy, who they believe plotted a surreptitious attack, was a museum built to honour a pioneering, nature-loving Korean artist.
From BBC β Sep. 18, 2026
A color-coded world map in the report plotted out that threat: green for lower-risk countries, where retail consolidation was low, and red for higher risk.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 16, 2026
Wu missed several station visits after he was too late at a transfer, but getting to see his partner successfully complete the route he plotted felt like a triumph nonetheless.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 25, 2026
In one hack that an OpenAI researcher called “a glimpse into the near future,” a team of agents banded together and plotted their attack for weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 8, 2026
On a college visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge the summer before senior year, Sasha met a fellow fan of the intricately plotted web comic Homestuck on a subway platform.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
“Boys in the alleyway, fondling marbles in their chilblained fingers or plotting Hurley Burley: these would remain foreign to him,” writes Li.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 13, 2026
At the moment, groundbreaking AI bots—when they aren’t actively plotting civilization’s demise—are composing elaborate symphonies and solving knotty, generations-old math problems.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 12, 2026
The Metro headlines with "not 100% faithful", writing that a Royal Navy sailor has appeared in court after "allegedly plotting to pass British secrets to Russia".
From BBC β Oct. 9, 2026
Plus, meet the Miami residents plotting Cuba’s future, and see which stocks our investing columnist is watching this week.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 21, 2026
Tallmadge, remembering the “Anderson” order from Arnold, felt that Anderson and Arnold were plotting something.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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