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Sharing a chatbot creates security vulnerabilities and can flatten the user experience by muddling personalization features, OpenAI warns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

The idea was to stack them up, allowing each to account for a portion of the reductions needed to flatten the surging rate of global emissions.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

As demand for artificial intelligence skyrockets, AI companies have been grasping for solutions to flatten the steep cost curve of compute.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026

We're here to find out what version of Fury we're going to see - the fleet-footed mover, or someone who has made a conscious decision to flatten his feet and rely more on upper-body movement.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

After a moment his voice would flatten out.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

Like VIX, it is not as bullish as it could be: The term structure of the VIX futures rises in the front end of the curve but then flattens out.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

“When this ratio flattens, it suggests a potential balancing of labor supply and demand,” Jefferson said, according to a published text of his remarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

"If you think about taking a bowl of pizza dough and setting it spinning above your head, it flattens out," she explained.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

Over and over again, this documentary makes the point that the screen flattens people’s full humanity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

But the cat just narrows his eyes, flattens his one ear, and hisses back at me.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Homes were demolished, chapels flattened and communities displaced in Port Talbot when Wales' first stretch of motorway was built at a cost of more than £5m.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The Chelsea midfielder was not even looking at the ball when he flattened his opponent.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

In 1950, he oversaw the invasion of South Korea, starting a war that would end in a stalemate with the North flattened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Authorities reported nearly 2,600 deaths as of Thursday from the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck the country last week, most in coastal town of La Guaira, where scores of residential complexes were flattened.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Mami propped up her pigeon pea and annatto bushes, which had been flattened by the storm, and soon they bloomed again, their leaves as new and fresh as babies.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

However, the yield curve began rolling over in April 2025 and has been flattening again since year-end.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

The result is flattening and enervating, and my dissatisfaction was apparently shared by others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

What makes Reble compelling is her refusal to soften herself for wider consumption - she resists explaining, translating or flattening her world into something more familiar.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

The yogurt pulls it together without flattening it.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

The flattening of these degrees - that is, the slight lowering in pitch - betrays the origin of Blues melodies in older, modal key-families.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall