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[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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Nearly two decades ago, Nvidia released a tool called compute unified device architecture, or CUDA, which allows users to write code directly for its chips.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Bitcoin miner Iren, which has moved to the AI compute business, is falling on earnings but it could be a buying opportunity, according to one Wall Street firm.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

“The new business model we introduced in July that opens up compute access to the fast-growing AI ecosystem is still in place and continues to evolve due to high demand,” an Nvidia spokeswoman said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Investors should think of a potential compute business as a “call option,” according to Mahaney.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Elle paused and blinked the way Stephanie usually did when something didn’t compute or when she was caught off guard.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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

“This new math can simulate them, because it computes the same way nature does.”

From MarketWatch Nov. 12, 2025

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

Using computed tomography and cinematic 3D rendering, the team created a detailed digital reconstruction of the specimen.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 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

There are some factors that can’t be computed by tech and A.I.

From Slate Nov. 9, 2024

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

Brian Colello, an analyst at Morningstar, said it’s possible to think of Nvidia’s computing infrastructure like a car: It can be financed by a customer, repossessed and sold back to another customer or used internally.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

These computing hives generate data, jobs, income, wealth and not much else.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

And it is providing “selective credit enhancement” for nearly two gigawatts of computing power to a “frontier AI lab” that isn’t OpenAI, Kress said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

The government said a pause would lead to the UK losing investment and being dependent on overseas computing for sensitive data processing.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Carmen = Mom’s goddaughter/niece was not computing with Arturo + Carmen = sudden frying of intestines when I talked to her.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya




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