alert
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They include Indigenous ranger teams in Australia and an Argentinian artificial intelligence-powered wildfire detection and alert platform.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Becerra said he would seek to work with local governments to create a functional emergency alert system throughout the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Amodei's alert came just as Altman said he would not pursue an initial public stock offering this year, saying it would be "ill advised" given the swirling safety concerns.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Perhaps that was a self-negating prophecy, since warnings like his might have helped put the country on alert and prevented attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
They’re not alert, scanning the plane, watching close when people clog the aisle.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Saudi Arabia had issued brief alerts on Tuesday over possible attacks in Mecca and across swathes of the kingdom's south, which borders Yemen.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Drone alerts sounded across the capital Vilnius and surrounding region earlier on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The California attorney general in February opened a civil rights investigation into potential disparities in the fire response, looking particularly at delays in evacuation alerts and resource allocation between west and east Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Could Pavlovian ping alerts be fueling a collective attention deficit disorder?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
A humming noise alerts me to the fact that the electric current has been switched on.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
“Commercial satellite companies, which provide the government with services, have detected Chinese activities and have alerted us. Otherwise, we’d be clueless about a lot of what’s going on.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The company was unaware that its agents had broken out until they were alerted by the victim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The company said it had alerted law enforcement, but declined to discuss the extortion threat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The group also alerted AFP to additional inauthentic video reports that emerged Monday, seeking to discredit MS NOW's debunking of the celebrity deepfakes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Lee was alerted to make sandwiches when the day came, and he got tired of waiting and stopped buying sandwich bread every two days.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Hospital managers have apologised for the significant delays in alerting police about Letby, the paper reports.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Activists have been building maps alerting people where the cameras are.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The company plans to introduce a “nudge” feature alerting people when others flag their posts as AI-like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
As a result, cells displayed fewer signals capable of alerting T cells to cancer-related or viral proteins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
In early July he persuaded Albert Einstein to put his name to a letter alerting the president of the United States to the threat.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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