compute
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The two-year-old startup’s goal: to double the world’s available compute without building a single new data center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
OpenAI calculates that a new monitoring system it set up after news that its agents left a testing sandbox this summer could add 20% to its compute costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
“It did not compute in my kid brain.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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
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
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
“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
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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What if AI didn’t need more—more chips, more energy, more resources—to meet the intensifying demand for computing power?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The encounter would end up paving the way to a pivotal computing deal between the two men’s companies a decade later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Leading AI model developers are talking about slowing down the pace of innovation, but that is far from the case in another critical field of emerging technology, quantum computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Pasadena, Calif., company is focused on building a large-scale, fault-tolerant, error-corrected quantum computer it says will deliver on the commercial promises of quantum computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I guess,” I answer, still computing the information that my dad knows way more than he lets on.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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