compute
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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
"The wires between these GPUs, CPUs, and all this compute are what's slowing us down," says Sharp.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Tal Broda, former vice president of compute at OpenAI, joined Khosla Ventures as a partner in early June, he said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Despite carrying higher compute prices, shorter-duration neolab contracts are materially more expensive to finance,” Haissl said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
To impose an anachronism: desegregation simply did not compute.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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If you use a simple savings-distribution calculator, which computes spending withdrawals at the same time as balance growth, you could comfortably spend about $250,000 a year for the next 10 years and still have excess.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 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
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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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
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"Certain ingredients" are needed for success, such as a lot of capital and computing power, he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The findings appear alongside two other recently published studies from separate teams that reproduced similar physics using different types of quantum computing hardware.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Training and running frontier-level AI models requires vast quantities of computing power, but so does deploying AI across an economy that scales to millions of people, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Oracle set out last year to lease a massive AI data-center campus being built in New Mexico’s Doña Ana County, part of a blitz of deals to create computing power for OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
All of the agency’s computing staffs, at Langley, Cleveland, Ames, and Muroc, traced their lineage back to the first pool, and to Tucker’s labor as the first female computer supervisor.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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