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The Fire Department already has a budget nearing $1 billion and the tax is expected to generate another $345 million annually to the department that has long said it is woefully underfunded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In several cases, AI was used to enhance visuals rather than generate something new.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026
AI chatbots have made large-scale cheating among students -- what some educators call "homework scams" -- easier than ever, allowing them to generate credible solutions to almost any written assignment within seconds.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
In 2026, it expects to generate around 250 million euros in AI-related revenue from businesses outside the U.S., rising to around 800 million euros by 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
And my face felt oily enough to generate two or three more Olympus Mons-sized pimples.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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Their motion creates electrical resistance and generates heat, which can ultimately destroy the superconducting state.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The most famous are "lying flat", when people opt out of the rat race entirely, and "involution", a rather clunky term now commonly used to describe intense competition which generates little meaningful reward.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Cowal, which generates roughly 40% of the company’s free cash flow today, continues to offer the most compelling growth options in Evolution’s portfolio, says the bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Amazon is an e-commerce platform, but it also generates about 10% of its revenue from advertising.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
You cannot “see” this cube nor feel its edges—but it shares the one property that all physical objects must possess: it generates shadows.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Season 35 of “DWTS” has already generated $5.7 million in trading volume as of Monday, Kalshi told me.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
For example, one Georgia ad included the disclaimer, “This video has been manipulated or generated with artificial intelligence,” while an Oklahoma ad said, “Political satire. AI-generated images do not depict actual events.”
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026
Aviation and the tourism it facilitates generated economic activity equivalent to 27% of the emirate’s gross domestic product in 2023, according to a study by Oxford Economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Zircon crystals can also preserve microscopic structures created by the intense pressures generated during an impact.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Gene regulation—the turning on and off of genes by proteins—described the mechanism by which combinatorial complexity could be generated from the one hard copy of genetic information in a cell.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The securities industry is generating record tax revenue for New York, increasing the city’s and state’s vulnerability to a downturn, the state comptroller warns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The only thing I can think of that’s worse than getting stuck on Greatest Hits or Top 40 is pushing a button and generating “infinite personalized music” with no human influence.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Gut bacteria produce the compound while generating energy from histidine, an amino acid that is essential for human health and found in many foods, particularly foods rich in protein.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Muse is designed to protect users by generating a one-time card number for each transaction and asking for a user’s permission before buying anything, said a Meta spokesman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In a financial system that was rapidly generating complicated risks, AIG FP became a huge swallower of those risks.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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