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compute

[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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Operating expenses will rise, she said, driven by “continued investment in R&D, compute capacity and talent.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Big exchanges and trading firms are also looking to launch a web of derivatives tied to compute, as it is known in the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

If compute prices sank because of decreased demand or increased supply, the trades would pay out, hedging an option buyer against losses in other parts of its business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

It’s that if they run into trouble, it’s probably because of something that affects everyone involved, such as an economic downturn or weaker-than-expected demand for compute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Lots of times, that ability to compute and calculate information rapidly was helpful, like when he was reading about complex mathematical theories.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The new model lets users download and customise the parameters, or "weights", that determine how it computes to their own servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Understanding that process could bring scientists closer to explaining how the brain computes the busy and often messy world around us.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

If you use a simple savings-distribution calculator, which computes spending withdrawals at the same time as balance growth, you could comfortably spend about $250,000 a year for the next 10 years and still have excess.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

The harsh reality remains that anything that computes needs some form of system memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

And during that week after his birthday, Mama Nee is working third shift, so that computes to just about every night.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

They then transported the containers to a laboratory for X-ray computed tomography, or XCT scanning.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Price said newer security machines that TSA is installing to replace traditional X-ray machines have computed tomography capabilities, which "can do a much better job of detecting liquid-based explosives".

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

“I computed the statistics,” he says, “and decided it was fifty-fifty.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Somewhere in a Google lab, a chip called Willow just computed the structure of a molecule 13,000 times faster than the most powerful supercomputer on Earth.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

She worked through every minute of what was programmed to be a three-orbit mission, coming up with numbers for eleven different output variables, each computed to eight significant digits.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Overall, Anthropic has committed to pay as much as $895.4 billion for AI computing power and infrastructure through 2045, according to its IPO prospectus.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

“We’re pleased to see it computing commonsense outputs from abstract inputs, but we feel admiration toward it rather than warmth.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Customer growth is primarily from data centers for cloud computing, but the region is also seeing electrification and manufacturing growth, including from pharmaceuticals, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Anthropic also posted an operating loss of $567 million in the third quarter as it paid more for short-term computing capacity.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

I have remained heavily involved in computing science, investigating and maintaining complex networks and studying everything from memes to artificial intelligence.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz


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