refine

An A.I. that can refine its own code—what experts call recursive self-improvement—could also outsmart human efforts to control it.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

The team works with Africa One, a humanoid robot they built, to refine and expand the signs their mechnical arms are able to produce.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The mission's four spacecraft will share tracking information with one another and use those combined observations to refine their positions collectively.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

In Twitch's own FAQs about AI training, it said a person's audio might be used to "refine models that create speech to text".

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

"Hi, Angela. Hey, I found that quotation, or rather, the librarian found it. You know: May God thy gold refine."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

The creative team then reviews and refines multiple AI-generated versions of a scene before deciding which expressions and line readings best serve the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Today, China refines more than 90% of the world’s rare earths, the International Energy Agency says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Dangote refines both Nigerian and imported oil, so it is exposed to world market fluctuations.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Edwin Chen, whose 6-year-old business Surge AI refines AI models, is the wealthiest of the new class of AI billionaires, worth about $18 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026

A race builds itself for a million years, refines itself, erects cities like those out there, does everything it can to give itself respect and beauty, and then it dies.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

The statue has been patinated with a pigment refined from Lapis Lazuli, a semi-precious stone that has been used by artists for millennia.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

“A shortage of global refining capacity has added further upward pressure, alongside sustained demand for refined products,” they said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

It is only possible to move small amounts of oil by truck or rail compared with seaborne exports and Iran mostly lacks wagons designed for crude or refined products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Part of the money raised will fund a further expansion of the refinery as Dangote seeks to increase its capacity and strengthen its position as a major supplier of refined petroleum products.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

All week she refined the plan for it.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

“A shortage of global refining capacity has added further upward pressure, alongside sustained demand for refined products,” they said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Energy executives said recently that roughly 5 million barrels of the world’s refining capacity was offline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The price of petrol and diesel is also heavily influenced by demand and refining capacity.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

In July, the mega-refinery secured $2.5 billion in investment from private investors to fund its expansion plans as it widens its refining business to east Africa.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

And when he returned home to Louisiana, he applied his knowledge of engineering to refining sugar.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson