the Internet

noun

: a system that connects computers throughout the world

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An alarming downside is that this openly spurs an AI to potentially wreak havoc and commit cyberattacks throughout the Internet, even though it is seemingly only being tested. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Woodward says that businesses love these Nano Banana images to make marketing materials, but plenty of them are probably memes and jokes being spread around the Internet. ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2026 In the three incidents that the AI lab detected, its models accessed the Internet while interacting with a testing environment from one of its third-party evaluation partners called Irregular. Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 The sting also relied on the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force program, which set up an undercover chat operation to communicate with suspects. Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for the Internet

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“The Internet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Internet. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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