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speed up

[speed-uhp] / ˈspidˌʌp /














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Accounting firm Crowe agreed to sell a stake to KKR, the latest in a wave of private-equity investments across the industry as firms seek capital to speed up their AI adoption and expansion efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

As the researchers note in the paper, pretraining can speed up inference, "but may also hinder learning new physics."

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

After the closing bell on Monday, it was announced that Intel is expanding its deal with Cadence Design Systems, a company which makes software and hardware that speed up the process of designing chips.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

It’s a godsend that many of these new technologies are available off the shelf right now, and this crisis will likely speed up the energy transition all over the world.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

“Picture it. Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.”

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury




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