compute
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Anthropic has signed compute agreements worth more than $475 billion over the next seven to 10 years, according to the Journal.
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
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
Anthropic could spend as much as $750 billion on AI compute capacity in the coming years, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited a copy of its draft IPO prospectus.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Another stab of pain sliced through Thomas’s head—there were too many things to compute at once.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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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
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
They are a specific kind of physical process that computes by unfolding through time.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 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
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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That would be "like saying you should be computing without using calculators", he told me.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
And as demand for computing power continues to rise, so will the demand for infrastructure to support those deployments, Thummel added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
A special-purpose vehicle, funded by the banks and supported by guarantees from Broadcom, then buys the chips and associated computing equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Intel is acquiring software developer Classiq in a bid to help its quantum effort ‘mature into a mainstream computing business.’
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 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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