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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

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

Ellison and longtime Skydance investor, RedBird Capital Partners, then entered into agreements to assign some of their purchase rights to the sovereign wealth funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Maybe next time they’ll assign me earlier, so I get to hang for more than just the last day.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

This method assigns average calorie values to each gram of fat, carbohydrates, and protein, then uses those values to calculate the total available energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Their system also assigns a “pointer” to sounds—for instance, altering pitch, harmony and texture to signal high or low blood pressure and severity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

AMD plans to sell Taalas technology inside systems alongside its Instinct GPUs, and a lender financing the whole rack reveals nothing about what it assigns to the model-specific part.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

At the end of each class, the teacher assigns work we’ll have to do at home.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

“Tidal Wave” takes off in July 1943 with the young and inexperienced crew of a B-24 Liberator assigned to bomb the oil refineries—dubbed Hitler’s gas station—at Ploesti, in southern Romania.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

"This new information has resulted in a significant surge of law enforcement assets to Alaska, and I have assigned several attorneys in my office to assist in the matter as well."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

From April 2028, all mayors of strategic authorities in England will be assigned a share of basic-rate income tax generated in their areas.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Participants were randomly assigned to one of three beverages: pure, unsweetened 100% cranberry juice, a cranberry juice cocktail containing 27% juice and added sugar, or plain water.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The young women who’d been assigned as Komsomol administrators had the unlucky job of trying to patch things up.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Seoul's education ministry's new measures to prevent cheating using smart glasses, announced Thursday, included assigning a "designated staff member" at each examination centre to identify suspicious eyewear.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Futures markets expect the Fed to hold rates steady in October, assigning only a 17% probability of an increase.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

James Blunt immediately took control, assigning players various different roles.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The bill, called the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act, works 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 ● Sep. 30, 2026

Why, exactly, is Zero assigning a bunch of locations to others?

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu