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Leading artificial intelligence companies do not know how to keep AI systems from pursuing objectives their developers did not assign, whistleblower Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee, warned Monday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

I was also determined to assign and sell the remaining seven years on Tabla’s lease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

One proposal to promote evaluator independence would be for regulators to assign auditors from a licensed pool instead of having the labs hire their own auditors directly.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Years later, after Ruane became a scientist who sometimes has the opportunity to assign official names to newly recognized reptile species, she returned to that old magazine interview.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Before she could assign me penmanship drills, I went to find Klawde.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

The Clean Air Act assigns primary responsibility for regulating emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency, while preserving only limited state authority over in-state sources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Federal Communications Commission assigns and oversees licenses for radio and television broadcast frequencies.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

“What we object to is a review that misstates the plan’s contents and reaches beyond the issues the Education Code assigns to the county, all while threatening escalation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Morningstar assigns a fair-value estimate of $35.20 for Southwest shares; they currently trading at roughly 30% above that.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

“Your teacher assigns the book to the class but it’s not the book you want to read, so you tell the teacher you don’t want to read it.”

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Britton, assigned to search the barn where Himmler was hiding, discovers, and is allowed to keep, the madman’s slippers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Routine tasks - assigned on a rota 24 hours a day, seven days a week - included cooking, cleaning, ironing, shopping, looking after Brain's young daughter, and walking his dog.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

For reasons the report doesn’t explain, the paramedics squad operated independently and was not assigned to the fire incident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Participants ranged in age from 18 to 80 and were randomly assigned to one of six groups that differed in the order in which the three seated arm positions were tested.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

All over the USSR, women who could fly were now assigned to train new pilots—many of them young men who’d be flying off to combat missions.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

In high school, his English teacher “amused himself by assigning me to play the part of Shylock.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

You could be assigning more intention to your brother-in-law’s actions than exists, says financial therapist Amand Clayman.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

People keep assigning him symbolic roles: first Muslim senator, Muslim socialist, proof of Democratic radicalism, proof of Muslim political progress.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The law, if approved, would work by assigning a “job retention credit” of $20,000 per journalist for up to five positions, and after that $15,000 for every additional journalist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Well, get all the names and start assigning them to different companies. I don’t want them bunched up, spread them out. See about their arms.”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara