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Users, including Fortune 500 companies, are turning to unregulated, possibly purloined “open weight” Chinese AI models to save money and avoid exposing their data to the big domestic labs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But the moment passed, and in 1949 the Soviet Union exploded its own plutonium-based atomic bomb — largely by re-creating Hanford 1,000 miles east of Moscow using blueprints purloined from the Manhattan Project.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
He eluded an FBI manhunt for two weeks while he supplied copies of the purloined report to more than a dozen other major newspapers across the country, including the Los Angeles Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
The task of finding the missing millions and those who purloined it falls to May de Silva, the country's Anti-Corruption Commissioner.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2022
But while the purloined guitar presented no ownership problem, his remaining property did.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
