inner workings

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The trial revealed more than a decade’s worth of corporate documents, private message exchanges and even private journal entries, giving unprecedented insight into the sometimes chaotic inner workings of OpenAI.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Hundreds of legal documents unsealed in recent months as part of the OpenAI lawsuit have offered a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Silicon Valley elite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

This has been partly driven by DeepSeek's decision to make its systems open source, with their inner workings public -- in contrast to the proprietary models sold by OpenAI and other Western rivals.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

As a result, the crisis "has thrown a proverbial wrench into the inner workings of the aviation fuel markets", it said.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

When one of his agents was questioning a seedy local attorney—who, according to an informant, was trying to “strangle” the government’s probe—the attorney betrayed a shocking knowledge of the inner workings of the case.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann