API

American  

abbreviation

1. American Petroleum Institute. Also A.P.I.

2. 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.

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API British  

abbreviation

1. application programming interface

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Example Sentences

That’s led to security concerns, as cybersecurity company Wiz identified a database misconfiguration in early February that left 1.5 million API authentication tokens, 35,000 email addresses and private messages between agents exposed.

From MarketWatch

The lack of security on the platform also allowed humans to post content on Moltbook by using API requests to send messages directly to the site.

From MarketWatch

“For the next 12 months, we’ll support general purpose AI chatbots using the WhatsApp Business API in Europe in response to the European Commission’s regulatory process,” a WhatsApp spokesperson said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Where we are legally required to provide AI chatbots through the WhatsApp Business API, we are introducing pricing for the companies who choose to use our platform to provide those services,” a Meta spokesperson said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Distillation involves training a weaker model to mimic the probability distributions of a more powerful model, often through analyzing millions of API responses to reverse engineer the “logic” behind the model’s intelligence.

From MarketWatch