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There is growing awareness of just how powerful new AI tools are, but little agreement over how they should be controlled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

Once authorized, the facility will be allowed to load nuclear fuel and begin start-up testing to achieve first criticality—the point at which a reactor sustains a controlled nuclear chain reaction.

From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026

Tribalists and traditionalists have controlled the terms of the battle, one by simplifying, the other by denying, the way privilege has shaped our compound selves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

For some, it appears to be another step away from buying a physical product, and instead towards buying a licence or access to software controlled by the publisher and platform holder.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026

Soon after, Carl Wernicke found another area on the left temporal lobe that controlled the ability to understand speech.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman