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[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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“There is probably plenty to go around for everyone, especially in the current environment which remains compute constrained,” Rasgon said, referring to the idea that there isn’t enough AI chip supply to meet customer needs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Moving beyond capacity assumptions, Nowak believes the “swing factor” determining the company’s growth will come down to how the company can monetize each watt of compute.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

I have seen genuinely funny and ingenious A.I.-produced shorts on my feeds, many of them likely helmed with a fraction of the compute and app deployment needed at Fairground.

From Slate Aug. 16, 2026

“Quantum will solve problems that traditional compute takes too long to do. And that AI can’t really do,” Wilson, Allstate’s Chair, President and CEO, told me.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

When she saw the massive dome of craggy black and brown squares, the word turtle simply did not compute.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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

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

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

Here is more from the agency on how the family maximum is computed.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

Using computed tomography scanning data, Srivastava digitally separated the crushed bones and created a 3D printed reconstruction of the skull.

From Science Daily Apr. 15, 2026

“I computed the statistics,” he says, “and decided it was fifty-fifty.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

But a new study questions whether scans—specifically computed tomography scans—are causing more cancer than we thought, specifically among the patients who receive them.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2025

Her glowing eyes darted around as she computed a plan.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

"The issue of artificial intelligence, including the high demand for the corresponding computing modules, will not foreseeably slump," Mertin added.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

That dramatic increase allowed the team to demonstrate optoacoustic memory, a key component that could be used in photonic neuromorphic computing inside fibers.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

Neocloud companies are providers of computing power that are benefiting from massive investment by hyperscalers as the artificial-intelligence infrastructure build-out continues.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

The biggest drop in subject entries, though, is in computing, with a 7.1% fall to 85,000 entries.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Eric, by now a full-time employee at Andersen, thought he might like a computing school; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had a top-flight one.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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