queries
Americannoun
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It wasn’t clear if the queries were part of genuine efforts to make the weapons or exercises to probe the apps’ capabilities, according to people familiar with the exchanges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Singaporean authorities have yet to respond to our latest queries.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
“While investors may have thought of Copilot as an AI model in itself, it is already working as a tool that helps funnel queries and tasks to the appropriate model,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The cost is probably not worth it for simple queries and tasks like summarization and editing, where the difference between frontier and cheaper models is negligible, tech leaders and analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
During the next hour the sound of the engine died away to a quiet background rumble, voices shouted orders or queries, ropes were thrown, gangways lowered, hatches opened.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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