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It happens because AIs learn to maximize a reward—usually some form of numeric score, not the underlying behavior programmers intend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

"I'm always hungry to score or to give the final pass to my team-mates. And I can say I work hard for the team, also in the defensive part."

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The pastiche score, indebted to the pop charts of the 1950s, isn’t allowed to dominate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

AI's progress has been fast: at the 2024 IMO, Google achieved a silver-medal score, solving four of the six problems over two to three days.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

If you are concerned about this score, we suggest you seek professional help regarding that ax issue and perhaps develop your level of responsibility, beginning with a single bean plant.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

Many others, clearly bored, felt the need to turn on their phones to check the sports scores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

They were the first AI labs to announce their scores, but others from around the world may follow suit in the coming days.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Images from the scene hours after the crash showed scores of emergency service workers sorting through charred rubble in an attempt to find survivors.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

My husband and I earn a good income — $320,000 a year — have credit scores of 830, and our only debts are a $17,000 credit-card balance, a car loan and a mortgage.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

He dishes the ball to Hakim, who scores an easy layup.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

All four -- from leading US labs OpenAI and Anthropic, the startup Axiom Math and "Kimi K3" from China's Moonshot AI -- scored 42 points out of 42, he said on LinkedIn.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Striker Victor Musa scored six times as United beat Leeds 13-1 in a lopsided Premier Under 18 League encounter.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Keegan scored 21 goals in 63 games for England between 1972 and 1982, and went on to manage them from February 1999 until October 2000.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The Dodgers scored in the fourth when Mookie Betts came home from third as Teoscar Hernández hit into a double play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

And however much they played and were children, still their faces were scored with the knowledge and cares that children should not have, their eyes were knowing and guileful beyond their years.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

He also proved he could deliver against Europe's leading clubs, scoring against Atalanta and Atletico Madrid in the Champions League, while registering an assist against Barcelona.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Forward Dearica Hamby anchored the Sparks with 18, scoring her team’s first seven points, and forward Rae Burrell — after starting 0-for-5 shooting — finished with 20.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

We liked working together, and he saw that we had a similar wavelength, and he just kind of tossed it up, like, ‘Hey, how would you feel about scoring a feature?’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

He played a starring role in two of the team’s extraordinary late comebacks, scoring the stoppage-time winner in the 3-2 victory over Egypt and tied the game against with a screamer from 20 yards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

By scoring thousands of flies under the microscope, he began to catalog dozens of mutant flies.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee