as in dependences
the quality or state of needing something or someone
she was concerned about his heavy dependency on coffee to get him moving in the morning
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Recent Examples of dependencies
Models require ongoing training and fine-tuning based on local usage patterns and emerging data; inference engines, data pipelines and critical dependencies must receive regular security updates and performance optimizations.
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Thomas Ryd, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
And, short of suicides, there is other mounting evidence of people developing harmful chatbot dependencies.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
This is why nations must rapidly work toward an ability to develop, control, and deploy AI infrastructure without external dependencies.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Security Risks Relying on AI assistants like Copilot poses security risks, such as injecting vulnerabilities, hardcoded secrets and insecure dependencies.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Thomas Ryd, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
And, short of suicides, there is other mounting evidence of people developing harmful chatbot dependencies.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
This is why nations must rapidly work toward an ability to develop, control, and deploy AI infrastructure without external dependencies.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Security Risks Relying on AI assistants like Copilot poses security risks, such as injecting vulnerabilities, hardcoded secrets and insecure dependencies.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Dependencies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dependencies. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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