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Yield

The income an investment returns, expressed as a percentage of its price. Bond yields move inversely to bond…

Inverted pyramid

Structuring a story with the most important information first and the least important last, so it stays coherent…

Large language model

A model trained on vast amounts of text to predict what comes next, which turns out to produce…

Off the record

Information given on the understanding it will not be published, used to help a reporter understand a story…

Blockchain

A shared ledger of transactions maintained by many computers at once rather than by a single institution. Records…

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