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Discussing a new framework for reporting incidents, OpenAI’s head of alignment, Kai Chen, told me, “A finding doesn’t necessarily need to cause harm or reveal a broader pattern to be worth sharing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
What do you think is the main cause of the repopulation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Royal College of Psychiatrists said AI's rapid development could "understandably cause anxiety for some people".
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Manipulating gene expression allowed the researchers to test cause and effect rather than simply observe that a genetic variant happened to occur in AnWj negative people.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
He only knew that demons hate all living things, and sometimes escape from the Otherworld, rising out of the ground to cause sickness and havoc.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"Secondly, greys have squirrel pox - it doesn't affect them but they transmit it to red squirrels and it's fatal for them. It's a horrible disease and causes them ulcers and blindness."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Lee produced last year’s $960 million grossing “A Minecraft Movie” and has success this weekend with “Resident Evil,” based on the Japanese horror game about a virus that causes people to transform into monsters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"The causes of IBD are largely unknown and quite variable," Dr. Pang said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
“If any company sells a product that causes massive harm, they’ll get sued into oblivion,” he shared on X. “That’s how companies go broke and rich people become poor people.”
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Antonee Robinson: Pushed into advanced areas in the inside forward position, which caused the visitors a defensive issue.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The results challenge the assumption that cell death in IBD is simply damage caused by inflammation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Times: So what caused you to change your mind?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
It wasn’t immediately clear if a drone or a missile caused the damage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Herdmans, who caused all the trouble in the first place, got $6.50.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
His share of the profits from “Weapons,” “Minecraft” and “Lego” have made Lee wealthy, causing colleagues and competitors to speculate that he could try to build Vertigo into a mini-studio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Romanian filmmaker’s stoic drama is designed to provoke viewers in opposite directions, snaring them in waiting traps and causing them to concede in agony, “You have a point!”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
PC Chris Johnson, 56, pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to causing her death by dangerous driving.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Wind pushes the floes over the ocean, causing them to drift and slowly move apart.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Her hands came down on the top of the orange again, causing less of a splash than the last time, but punctuating her sentence nicely.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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