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The AI initially built a tool that recommended financial strategies crossing those thresholds, generating costs that could wipe out any benefit.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

State revenue from income tax collection is higher than initially forecast, a boon that is expected to wipe out a projected deficit in the year ahead.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

He said salmon numbers have been declining "rapidly" in the past two decades and pollution like this has "the potential to wipe out" salmon stocks on the River Mourne.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

The Cylons are fundamentalist, monotheistic zealots who wipe out nearly all of humankind, making them apt representations of all kinds of real-world threats.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

It was determined to wipe out railway competition by whatever means necessary.

From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser




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