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behave

[bih-hayv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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Then there's this, he said: AI models are getting better and better at detecting when they are being tested and might behave differently when they are actually deployed, fooling their masters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

“I look at it as, if you think you are powerless, you will behave in a powerless way,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Small triangles would behave almost exactly as Euclid predicted, and short parallel paths would not noticeably converge.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

The resulting triangle would not behave like one drawn on a sheet of paper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Apart from that, rrree-member to behave normally at all times.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

The discovery challenges existing ideas about how the material behaves and may also point toward new technological uses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Plus, it’s inherently funny when a body engineered to function with extreme precision behaves ineptly.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

And if an AI system itself behaves in ways its developers did not expect, a rulebook won’t make it behave.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Watch the mushrooms more than the clock; a mix containing oyster mushrooms behaves differently than a pan full of white buttons.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

“That old sourpuss. You’d think the man had a very unhappy childhood with the way he behaves sometimes.”

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

Hours later, following the Eagles’ 27-7 loss to the Bears, Sirianni expressed regret for how he behaved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The now-retired Falcao speaks fondly of Pinto, who he says behaved just like his friends and would "go to the gym, go to McDonald's".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“This is not how Navatek behaved or conducted business before I sold the company to Martin Kao,” Loui wrote to ProPublica.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The attackers used many of the same web links and behaved much like a previous OpenAI swarm; they used the phrase “OAI” in file names and even in an email address.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Visitors wore their best clothes, as if going to church, and were surprisingly well behaved.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Rather than behaving like a lamp illuminating everything around it, the jet acts more like a concentrated beam that causes gas to glow along its path.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

"Now, I think it's Mediapart that needs to be told to put on its Kevlar vest, because there will obviously be a response to the way they are behaving," she said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Bass said her review would be a top-down evaluation that also scrutinizes the roles of dispatchers, supervisors and others involved in responding to reports of people behaving erratically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It took investigations, trials, discovery, all of the tools of modern litigation, to get documents, interview witnesses, to do the fact-building that exposed just how bad the industry had been behaving.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Later, Ranyinudo told her, “You are no longer behaving like an Americanah!” and despite herself, Ifemelu felt pleased to hear this.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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