- present participle of control.
controlling
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His comments come after a BBC interview where he spoke about so-called safety breaks for AI systems controlling critical infrastructure or automated systems and said that washing machines are subject to more rules than AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
They are trying to determine whether someone was deliberately controlling the robot's movements at the time of the incident.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
But with Xuan and Zhang controlling the firm that arranged the surrogate births, no one looked into their backgrounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Burnham said the summit "presents an opportunity to make progress on two crucial issues: boosting UK growth and controlling illegal immigration".
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
But he had to be practical—she likely had just wanted to have an impassioned discussion about the evils of arranged marriages and controlling parents and was disappointed it wasn’t coming to fruition.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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