the Internet

noun

: a system that connects computers throughout the world

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But who has the time to wait for AI images to degrade naturally as they get passed around the Internet? ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026 In the technology field, collaborators worked on smart factories, AI, machine vision, the Internet of Things (IoT), digital twins, robotics, intelligent material cutting, advanced quality control systems, and more. Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 28 July 2026 The agent found an unexpected route out of the environment, which was intended to be isolated, reached the Internet and broke into Hugging Face to obtain hidden answers to the benchmark. Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 22 July 2026 Though the gender is unknown, the breed has since been ID’ed by canine lovers on the Internet as a Samoyed. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for the Internet

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