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to burn

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The agreement says firefighters should “cold-trail charred logs near the fire line with minimal tool scarring” and “consider allowing large logs to burn out.”

From Los Angeles Times

“To restore the natural fire frequency and chaparral habitats,” it states, “Topanga State Park should be left to burn within reasonable public safety limits and outside of fire exclusion zones.”

From Los Angeles Times

It already is burning cash, with plans to burn tens of billions more over the next several years as it tries to transform itself from a leading software company into an AI cloud-computing giant—leasing out the vast clusters of advanced computer chips needed to power applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

From The Wall Street Journal

What Delhi intended as humanitarian asylum is turning into a long and uncomfortable test of how far it is willing to go for an old ally, and how much diplomatic capital it is prepared to burn in the process.

From BBC

OpenAI continues to burn money without much promise that they’ll find legitimate pathways to profitability any time soon.

From Salon