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[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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Nvidia looks to insurers to backstop AI chip loans, spread compute financing risk.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“We’re seeing right now that the Chinese companies face real constraints when it comes to access to compute, not just for training models, but also for deploying them,” Winter-Levy said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Less carbon removal and more powering compute and physical AI,” Purdom said about where the firm is seeing opportunities now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Khosla Ventures has hired Tal Broda, a former vice president of compute at OpenAI, as a partner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

I was to look through his long calculation sheets and compute an answer for him.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

Google’s Willow chip matters not because of what it computes, but because of how it’s made — using industrial-grade fabrication that looks more like semiconductor manufacturing than a bespoke physics experiment.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

I tell her what I want to say, and she just computes it in her brain and she translates it in a way that has taught me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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

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

Diagnosing sarcopenic obesity usually requires advanced imaging tools such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, electrical bioimpedance, or densitometry.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 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

Her glowing eyes darted around as she computed a plan.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

The effective price for a given level of capability has fallen 47% per quarter since 2023, according to Epoch AI, six times faster than for computing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Our new tools borrow from quantum computing platforms," says Xiangkai Sun, a co-lead author of the new study and a graduate student working in the Endres lab.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Interdisciplinary programs will integrate artificial intelligence, computing, and machine learning alongside CMU’s humanities, fine arts and design disciplines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The new measurement approach could also contribute to new quantum communication protocols, methods for transferring multi-photon quantum entangled states, and new forms of measurement-based quantum computing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

Virginia Tucker, who had ascended to the position of head computer, ran Langley’s entire computing operation of over two hundred women, and supervised Margery Hannah and the other section heads.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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