Notable and interesting recent quantum industry news, articles, and papers
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m back from London and the Economist Impact 4th Annual Commercialising Quantum conference. I also took a two-day mini-holiday in Liverpool to get my fill of Beatles lore and spend a lot of time on the waterfront….
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’ve been traveling in the UK this week to attend and speak at the Economist Impact 4th annual Commercialising Quantum Global 2025 conference in London. It was a great event as usual, with roughly 25% of the…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today’s photo above is from the Quantum.Tech USA 2024 event in Washington, DC, in April. Thanks to the organizers for the image. Honestly, I thought I was smiling the whole time. It’s been a busy quantum spring…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m going to start today’s commentary with a quick thought I posted on LinkedIn: We don’t have a quantum computing workforce shortage. We have too many expert and talented people spread out over too many companies. I’ve…
Today’s Brief Commentary: This is a special issue of the newsletter in that instead of news articles and research papers, I’ve included several links that give the current state of quantum computing for finance. If you do a web search…
Today’s Brief Commentary: At the beginning of my talk at Quantum.Tech DC last week, I showed the above image as the bridge that quantum computing providers are trying to build and cross to give us Practical Quantum Advantage. I define…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Inspired by a discussion with a representative from Toshiba at the Quantum.Tech DC event this week, my links and comments today are related to annealing and optimization. In the quantum space, D-Wave is perhaps the best known…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today’s first link in the post-quantum cryptography section is about OpenSSH adopting one of the NIST PQC standards. OpenSSH is a widely adopted open-source implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, offering secure solutions for remote access,…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Prompted by a LinkedIn post by David Ryan and then my comment (and his response), today, I address the topic of a media or press kit for your website. Such a kit is a one-stop page that…
Today’s Brief Commentary: This week, I am Brooklyn-bound, and I’ll be hosting a panel on Thursday at the Forma Prime Demo Day as part of NYC Deep Tech Week hosted by Hyperstition. The panel is called “The Unadorned Truth about…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, we have two links to recent videocasts with me, three regarding post-quantum cryptography, and two for quantum computing. Each of the latter two categories includes variations of quantum hype. The first, from WIRED, is of the…
Today’s Brief Commentary: With the APS Global Physics Summit, NVIDIA GTC, and the Synopsys Executive Forum all in California last week, my attention turns to New York this week. I will do a short follow-up newsletter with my upcoming events…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m pushing this newsletter out on a Sunday because two big industry events are coming up this week. The first is the NVIDIA GTC AI conference in San Jose, California. It runs from Monday the 17st through…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Most of the links today concern financial news regarding earnings announcements of public quantum computing companies or funding of private companies. IonQ and Rigetti Computing have already announced their Q4 and Fiscal Year 2024 results, and I…
Today’s Brief Commentary: It was a busy week in the quantum realm, with IonQ releasing Q4 2024 and FY 2024 earnings and getting a new CEO, and Amazon Web Services/ CalTech announcing a cat qubit prototype quantum processing unit. I…
Today’s Brief Commentary: If you haven’t seen it, my commentary about quantum computing vendors and the trust they must nurture among the public, customers, and users is available on Substack. This is looking to be a busy week for quantum…
This is the 50th edition of this newsletter. I’m forgoing links today to discuss quantum computing vendor announcements and how they affect the trust in those vendors. Quantum Computing Announcements: It’s a Question of Trust Last week, Microsoft announced its…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, I am directing my remarks toward quantum computing companies, particularly small ones. Many of your websites need work. Here are a few suggestions: Be explicit about your quantum computing modality and paradigm. For example: “We implement…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m in catch-up mode after traveling to Riyadh last week for the LEAP / DeepFest 2025 event. I want to thank the organizers for a truly first-class experience from start to finish. The links below include the…
Today’s Brief Commentary: This week’s big news is that QuEra finally announced its large funding round. They telegraphed this last year by letting people know that Google had given them “a boatload of cash.” Okay, I made that quote up,…