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The data centre is also causing concern over its potential water usage, noise pollution and the scale of the facility harming the landscape.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The San Francisco-based AI lab updated its usage policy to include "a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Co-founder and co-CEO Patrick Jahnke most recently led a data center team at SAP, optimizing its AI usage, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
There was no change in hospital usage by U.S.-born patients during the observation period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
The key is to recognize that the rules of usage are tacit conventions.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Token usages are how developers measure and pay for AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
What are some unique butter techniques or usages that some may not be familiar with?
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024
The Northern Quarter is a "lively, vibrant" area, but as "Manchester is evolving", its "usages are changing", which means the area can now be considered mixed use, the judge said.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
Other similarly off-putting usages prompted think tanks and op-ed writers to warn that deepfakes were on the cusp of sparking a war or manipulating an election.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
The ambiguous usages of Noah Biggs and Alexander Ross, discussed earlier, also follow the publication of Hobbes’s Humane Nature.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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