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Those investments underpin Musk’s vision of “physical AI”: Tesla building robotaxis and robots, with SpaceX providing the infrastructure to connect them worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

It noted that compute may not yet have the characteristics that typically underpin a commodity derivatives market, including “fungibility, standardization, and sufficient liquidity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

A lack of distributions and write-offs reduces available funds that underpin economic activity, creating adverse feedback loops.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

"We know we can make it at a huge scale, so that's why it's such an interesting technology, because it can underpin many applications."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The AIG FP traders present were shocked by how little thought or analysis seemed to underpin the subprime mortgage machine: It was simply a bet that home prices would never fall.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Silver’s “increasing industrial utility” underpins the metal’s growing physical scarcity, he noted, with the physical-market forecast to remain in deficit for the sixth straight year in 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

Shares of SpaceX, whose rocket technology underpins the vehicle, also rose premarket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"By combining complementary X-ray techniques at LCLS, this work provides a uniquely complete view of these coupled processes, opening new opportunities to understand and ultimately control the chemistry that underpins energy conversion and catalysis."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Rombach, 33, helped develop latent diffusion, a breakthrough that underpins many of today's AI image-generation systems.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn’t break the silence so much as it underpins it.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

That export boom has been underpinned in large part by insatiable global demand for AI-related products including computers, semiconductors and data centre equipment.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Much of the historic success of positional play has been underpinned by that same idea – finding the free player.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Based in a city of more than half a million people, their potential is underpinned by a large, passionate fanbase who averaged over 30,000 for home games in the second tier last term.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

A major reason homeownership underpinned wealth for previous generations is that a mortgage can function as a sort of forced savings account.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

The surveillance department was meant to monitor subprime bonds and downgrade them if the loans that underpinned them went bad.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

"The US equity sell-off reflected a reassessment of the economics underpinning the AI investment boom rather than a simple downgrade to end-demand," said National Australia Bank's Rodrigo Catril.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

But a new study is calling into question the very demographic data underpinning that conviction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The basic logic underpinning his thinking is that the more people who own and use bitcoin, the greater the adoption of its network, which can provide a base for assessing its value.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Two years later, new scientific evidence came to light which challenged one of the key assumptions underpinning the prosecution case.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall