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Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This is my last quantum newsletter for 2024, and I’m anxious to get going with 2025. This year had many highlights but was marred by extra hype and public misunderstandings in the last several weeks. I don’t…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary In my last AI newsletter, I said it would be the last one before the new year. I should have expected that my links buffer would not stay empty for that long. I want to draw your…
Enjoy some “easy listening” this holiday season as Dr. Bob Sutor and I play a game I invented called “trigger word association.” We also talked about caffeine, coffee, his books, and his newsletter, but hey, we played a game too!
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary This is my last AI-focused newsletter for 2024. I don’t do roundups of the year’s most significant news and articles because I want to get on with 2025. I will leave those for others. Keep your hype…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Someone once said to me, and I paraphrase, “Beware of giving analogies when speaking about quantum computing. They will eventually go wrong, especially when comparing concepts to classical phenomena.” Many of us who write and speak about…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Plastic glass. Jumbo shrimp. Open secret. These are all examples of oxymorons, phrases whose first halves seem to be the opposite of the second. I read another one over the weekend: Quantum computing classical hardware. To be…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary I spent this last week at the Q2B conference in Santa Clara, California, so my mind has focused more on quantum technologies than AI. That’s my excuse for playing catch-up on AI topics in this newsletter edition….
Today’s Brief Commentary I’m writing this on the afternoon of December 10, the first full day of Q2B Silicon Valley in Santa Clara. Today’s news links have a few items from last week, more world leadership, which I have highlighted, and important news from Infleqtion/NVIDIA and Google. Infleqtion has now demonstrated logical qubits via NVIDIA’s…
Dr. Bob Sutor will speak at the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara, CA, on Thursday, December 12, at 1:40 PM in Room 209. His talk title is “Are We Accelerating toward Practical Quantum Advantage, or Are We Languishing with Toy Computers for Toy Problems?”
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Some of you have asked how I build this newsletter with the links and categorization. During the days before publishing an edition, I collect links to articles, papers, newsletters, and web pages on AI and quantum technologies…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This is my last round-up of news and articles about quantum technologies before the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara, California, next week, December 10–12. Several companies, including Equal1 and Alice & Bob, squeezed in announcements…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Ahead of my talk at Q2B Silicon Valley on December 12 and an Analyst Insight article for The Futurum Group, I’ve been looking at companies around the world who claim to be creating quantum processing units (QPUs)….
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links give an idea of how AI is being used across the arts, academia, and business. That sounds better than saying they are a bunch of odds and ends as we approach the end of 2024,…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary We’ve entered the end-of-year quantum lull period, though we are between the SC24 conference last week and the Q2B Silicon Valley conference during the second week of December. In the United States, the Thanksgiving holiday is Thursday,…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary As is often the case, NVIDIA is the center of attention today in the AI world. The company announced Q3 2024 earnings and other financials on Wednesday. The stock was “only” up 94% from a year ago….
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary The Supercomputing SC24 conference is this week in Atlanta, so many quantum computing vendors used the occasion to make announcements. That’s why the Quantum Computing section in this newsletter is longer than usual. The superconducting modality is…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Large Language Models (LLMs) don’t continuously learn, and David Linthicum covers this ground well in his YouTube video in the Generative AI and Models section. I strongly recommend that you watch it. I think today’s LLM +…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary IBM had a lot of news this week on the occasion of their first Quantum Developer Conference held at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. The lab is about 35 miles…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links are primarily about quantum computing, with a couple of others thrown in about a quantum game and quantum networking. Start paying attention to the Imec company for quantum-related technology. It shows up twice in the…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary As I’ve mentioned before, discussions about agentic AI are accelerating rapidly. Generative AI still dominates, but the combination of GenAI with orchestrated agent roles is becoming more widely understood. I’ve included tutorials by IBM and NVIDIA in…