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The reassignment is part of broader organizational changes that have the effect of making DeepMind—which Google acquired in 2014 and has functioned as a semiautonomous operation—more tightly integrated with the rest of the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Credit markets have functioned smoothly, heavy supply has been absorbed and the main AI issuers still are “elite corporations with incredible balance sheets.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Although companies describe them as decision-support tools, she said they often functioned as "automated decision-making systems".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Near the lower edge of town I located the Khumbu Lodge, pushed aside the blanket that functioned as a front door, and found my teammates drinking lemon tea around a table in the corner.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
