diffusion
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The first is the diffusion of knowledge about how to build cutting-edge AIs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
A lawsuit alleges USA Rare Earth stole grain boundary diffusion technology from MP Materials, intensifying competition for U.S. rare-earth supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
"How to respond to the rapid development and diffusion of generative AI is the biggest 360-degree challenge for today’s news leaders and policymakers," Egan wrote.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
“The U.S. is focused on achieving AGI, while China is focused on diffusion and applications of AI into the rest of their economy — manufacturing, humanoid robotics, all aspects of the internet of things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
That knowledge may nevertheless inspire others, by idea diffusion, to devise their own routes to such a result.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"If countries are found to be significantly and persistently abusing red notices and diffusions, then they should be suspended from the system for a period of time," says Keith.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a member of the British trio Cream, he transformed simple blues lines into brilliant horizontal diffusions of sound.
From Time Magazine Archive
The inmates we found pious, sensible, and excellent persons, who had devoted many years among their heathen neighbors in philanthropic diffusions of the Gospel.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)
The author exhibits the result of thoughtful study in his expressed views upon the mooted questions of racial origins and diffusions.
From Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by Powell, John Wesley
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Cell Biology - Middle School
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