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compute

[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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This confluence of factors coupled with rising wait times and skyrocketing costs of compute are crippling a generation of newcomers trying to compete with Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Co-founder Sergey Brin sometimes upends the formal compute allocation process, reshuffling power around to projects that he thinks are important, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

We used the hydrogen formation history found through these simulations to compute predictions for how cosmic microwave background should appear if there were primordial magnetic fields, and tested these predictions against observations of the background.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

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

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

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

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

Brown was there to broker a deal to rent computing power after the explosive success of Anthropic’s Claude Code created a capacity crunch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

To hedge against the unpredictable nature of securing computing power, some companies are signing contracts for more capacity than they need.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Established suppliers of computing power are requiring customers to sign multiyear contracts with heftier down payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Conrad’s company vets data centers and then rents their computing power to AI companies that range from the largest players like Nvidia to small startups like Standard Intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Many white laboratory employees, particularly on the East Side, hadn’t even known that an all-black computing group existed.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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