compute
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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
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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
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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
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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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