compute
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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
One of the main costs for the business is compute, or the processing power used to train and run AI models.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Tom Brown, an Anthropic co-founder and chief compute officer at the company, has been leading many interactions with the administration after helping resolve the shutdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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
He blinks at me, as if this doesn’t compute.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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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
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
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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
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
These expressions were strikingly efficient, allowing pi to be computed much faster than existing techniques of the time.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
Jesse had computed how many paychecks they would get—two for him and four for Eric—if they waited a month before leaving.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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As the physical home for the computing power used by phones, computers and AI, the demand for these centres will grow.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
That amount of computing power is equivalent to running five million laptops at the same time for an entire year.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Politicians who once championed the AI infrastructure build-out have changed their tunes right as companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into ramping up computing capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The risk exists because “Xanadu and most quantum computing peers have nominal near-term revenue, which makes benchmarking valuation difficult.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The routines of the computing work had become familiar to Mary, but the geography of the East Side was not.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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