costlier
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If more people use AI large-language models for search, that could reduce Google’s income and make it harder and costlier to fund its AI ambitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Along with making those companies’ borrowing costlier, it raises a bigger question: How much more expensive can financing get before it starts to slow the AI build-out?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Also, the process to execute inmates on death row has grown longer and costlier, as appeals helped push up the average age at execution to nearly 60 years old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
There are fresh challenges too: Volatile geopolitics have made business costlier and less predictable, while artificial intelligence now allows users to create photorealistic images by just typing words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
But they bowed to Sproul’s judgment that losing Lawrence would be even costlier, and voted to cover all the annual operating and maintenance costs that Lawrence had budgeted for the Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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