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compute

[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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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

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

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

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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