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Brian Chau, a food scientist and founder of food science and food systems consultancy Chau Time, said many AI food startups are still in the data-collection phase, working to aggregate enough real-world information to make their models meaningfully predictive.—
Barbara Booth,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2026 -
About 55,000 jobs cuts in 2025 were AI-related, according to employment consultancy Challenger, Gray and Christmas.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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The Wall Street Journal reported that forces used Claude during the operation via Anthropic’s partnership with the defense contractor Palantir—and Axios reported that the episode escalated an already fraught negotiation over what, exactly, Claude could be used for.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2026
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The negotiations in Switzerland were the third round of direct talks organized by Washington, after meetings earlier this year in Abu Dhabi that officials described as constructive but which also made no major headway.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The engineers union has a reputation for wins at the bargaining table, including gaining seniority perks that boosted pay for longtime employees.—
Yue Stella Yu
Feb. 22,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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All of this is unfolding, meanwhile, as the Screen Actors Guild is winding up its second week of bargaining with the studios, so far with its media blackout holding firm, usually a sign that those talks are going well.—
Rebecca Keegan,
NBC news,
20 Feb. 2026
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Its star Amy Adams is not in Berlinale but her absence has practically gone unnoticed with the media’s attention rather on whether the festival has tried to put a lid on political discourse outside discussion of the politics in the films.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2026
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That restraint is precisely what feels absent in much of today’s discourse, where criticism of state action is often conflated with hatred of a people, and where historical trauma is sometimes used to silence moral questions rather than deepen them.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
15 Feb. 2026
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Recently, at a candidates forum outside Dallas, Larry Brock expressed the following sentiments as part of a lengthy disquisition on the Muslim faith.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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There was little time to draw breath between art classes, violin making, and disquisitions on John Ruskin.—
Richard Godwin,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
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And though their scenes together are way too brief, the Older and Younger Elliott bull sessions give the movie both a spiky-humor rush and a sense of genuine grounding.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2024
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The newspaper’s staff won the Pulitzer for breaking news for a series of stories on a secret audio recording that exposed Los Angeles City Council members scheming in a crass and racist bull session about political power in the city.—
Elvia Limón,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2023
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“Pourparler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pourparler. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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