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OpenAI on Monday said it had filed confidentially for an initial public offering, shortly after rival AI company Anthropic said it had done the same.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

His wife enlisted in the army shortly after him, and heads his unit's troop support service.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

More than two dozen personnel with the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a report of a hiker in grave medical condition off Nichols Canyon Road near Hollywood Boulevard shortly before 7 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Last year, shortly after the fire happened, Hong Kong's anti-graft watchdog had arrested two directors of the development's structural engineering consultancy Will Power Architects.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

This theory seems to lie somewhere between what became the new standard theory and Bodin’s theory, which we will come to shortly.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton