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“Anthropic has essentially put to the test the adage of whether monkeys and typewriters could, provided enough time, recreate Hamlet,” the lawsuit states.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
"They’re essentially becoming a bank," said Michael Cusumano, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The mechanism they developed involves what is essentially a contractual promise with California’s Franchise Tax Board for illiquid billionaires to pay the tax when they become liquid, even if they have since left the state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Eventually, he took the role of Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film franchise, essentially playing a telepathic Picard in a wheelchair.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
No wonder that Angeliki Simosi, the director of the Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, exclaimed, “The ship that sank at Antikythera was not merely a cargo ship. It was essentially a floating museum.”
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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