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[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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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

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

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

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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