compute
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They say it’s unclear how SpaceX hits its target for 13 gigawatts of compute by the end of 2027, adding that the target may represent contributions from a new data center campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
There is currently much debate about whether we have a compute oversupply heading into 2027 and the following year, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Its expenses included almost $9 billion in compute and infrastructure spend, up from $2.3 billion in the same period last year and more than the $7.3 billion the company recorded for all of 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
While there‘s 55 gigawatts’ worth of compute power planned for next year, that number could potentially be limited to between 20 and 25 gigawatts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
It’s like he’s looking through them, like his brain simply can’t compute their existence.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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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
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
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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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
Stephanie Smith, manager of the Field Museum's X-ray computed tomography laboratory, helped create highly detailed micro CT scans of the octopus.
From Science Daily ● May 25, 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
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In CoreWeave’s case, Nvidia committed to buy up to $6.3 billion of unused computing capacity if no other customer takes it.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The coal-hauling trucks are made by China’s XCMG, with Huawei supplying autonomous-driving software, telecommunications equipment and computing power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Revenue from the company’s data-center and AI segment surged 78%, to $7.3 billion, but revenue in the client computing and physical AI group fell by 5%, to $8.1 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Microsoft said on Wednesday that its quarterly revenue rose to $92.3bn - up 19% from a year earlier - driven by strong growth in its cloud computing business.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
It essentially says computing power doubles every eighteen months to two years.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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