API

American

abbreviation

American Petroleum Institute. Also A.P.I.
Computers. application programming (or program) interface: a set of protocols used by programmers to create applications for a specific operating system or to interface between the different modules of an application.

API British

abbreviation

application programming interface

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“The WhatsApp API was never designed to be used for AI chatbots and doing so would place severe strain on our systems,” they said, adding that the company’s recent update does not affect businesses using the service to provide customer support and updates.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the developer API—which allows companies to use the model in their own software—pricing is $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

From Barron's

The API reported a 6.5 million barrel crude stock build, analysts note.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the world’s largest cloud provider said it was “now seeing connectivity and API recovery for AWS services” in an update at 12:13 p.m.

From Barron's

It said in an update on its service status web page the issue "appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1".

From BBC

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