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[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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Moving beyond capacity assumptions, Nowak believes the “swing factor” determining the company’s growth will come down to how the company can monetize each watt of compute.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

I have seen genuinely funny and ingenious A.I.-produced shorts on my feeds, many of them likely helmed with a fraction of the compute and app deployment needed at Fairground.

From Slate Aug. 16, 2026

Tencent’s stance echoes Meta’s early messaging on AI investment returns, which were expected to come indirectly through ad-targeting improvements before shifting toward external compute services.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

If Elon Musk can expand its compute capacity swiftly, Microsoft could be perfectly positioned to monetize this “one-in-a-generation opportunity”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

I try to process that information, but it doesn’t fully compute.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

Meanwhile, the combined 609 lb-ft of torque computes to 4,400 pounds’ towing capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

With quantum computers, it will be possible to run massive computes to see how different molecules react with each other to find out what works and with what side-effects.

From BBC Apr. 13, 2026

“This new math can simulate them, because it computes the same way nature does.”

From MarketWatch Nov. 12, 2025

FanGraphs also computes wins above replacement, known as fWAR.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2025

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

Using computed tomography and cinematic 3D rendering, the team created a detailed digital reconstruction of the specimen.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

Software also will be needed to present what AI has computed in a way that people can understand, he said.

From MarketWatch Feb. 26, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

There are some factors that can’t be computed by tech and A.I.

From Slate Nov. 9, 2024

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

For one, Nowak’s calculations run on the assumption that demand for computing capacity will continue to grow.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

They pointed to SpaceX’s “leverage” from its latest frontier AI model and its position as a provider of computing power.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Some of their investments are also defensive: securing their systems and applications in preparation for the day quantum computing could break today’s encryption technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

"What we show is that a single human neuron is itself an extraordinarily sophisticated computing device."

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

It is possible to predict radio bursts from Jupiter with better reliability than weather forecasts on Earth, by computing the position of Io.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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