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Quantum + AI Together News and Commentary – Saturday, October 26, 2024

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I’m speaking on Tuesday, October 29, at the Inside Quantum Technology Quantum+AI conference in New York City. The title is “Quantum AI: A Quantum Computing Industry Perspective.” On the occasion of this event, today’s edition of the…

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Useful Quantum Computing – Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I tweaked today’s edition’s title to insert the word “useful.” After all, we want our computing systems, classical or quantum, to be useful, don’t we? Most of today’s quantum computers are deployed for research, experimentation, and education….

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Quantum News and Commentary – Monday, October 21, 2024

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today, we look at quantum sensing and communication, material simulation, and continuous-variable approaches for analog quantum computing. Today’s Brief Commentary Here’s a story idea for journalists: Given the gate-and-circuit “digital” model of hashtag#quantumcomputing, ask vendors two things about their eventual…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Tuesday, October 15, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Merging Atomic Clocks with Quantum Computers – www.caltech.edu https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/merging-atomic-clocks-with-quantum-computers Author: Whitney Clavin (Wednesday, October 9, 2024) “Now, as reported in the journal Nature, a Caltech team led by Professor of Physics Manuel Endres has developed a new…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Friday, October 11, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Introducing Qiskit Code Assistant | IBM Quantum Computing Blog https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/qiskit-code-assistant Authors: Daniella Garcia Almeida; Juan Cruz-Benito; and Robert Davis (Wednesday, October 9, 2024) “To bring useful quantum computing the world, it isn’t enough to build the world’s…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Tuesday, October 8, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Nu Quantum leverages NQCC alliance to launch Oxbridge quantum computing initiative https://www.businessweekly.co.uk/posts/nu-quantum-leverages-nqcc-alliance-to-launch-oxbridge-quantum-computing-initiative Author: Tony Quested (Wednesday, October 2, 2024) “Cambridge’s Nu Quantum and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, today announce Project IDRA – the…

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AI News and Commentary – Monday, October 7, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs – NVIDIA ADLR https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/NVLM-1/ Authors: Wenliang Dai; Nayeon Lee; Boxin Wang; Zhuolin Yang; Zihan Liu; Jon Barker; Tuomas Rintamaki; Mohammad Shoeybi; Bryan Catanzaro; and Wei Ping (Tuesday, September 17, 2024) “We introduce…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Wednesday, October 2, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Building the Quantum Future, Qubit by Qubit – Berkeley Lab News Center https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/09/30/building-the-quantum-future-qubit-by-qubit/ Author: Aliyah Kovner (Monday, September 30, 2024) “Quantum technologies may still be in development, but these systems are evolving rapidly and existing prototypes are…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Monday, September 30, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Gov. Pritzker Announces Investments in EeroQ Quantum Hardware Headquarters in Chicago https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker-announces-investments-in-eeroq-quantum-hardware-headquarters-in-chicago (Wednesday, September 25, 2024) “Today, Governor JB Pritzker joined the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) and EeroQ Corporation leadership to announce new…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Wednesday, September 25, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Infleqtion Awarded Phase II Quantum Technology Exploit Contract with Australian Army https://www.infleqtion.com/news/infleqtion-awarded-phase-ii-quantum-technology-exploit-contract-with-australian-army (Tuesday, September 10, 2024) “Infleqtion announced an expansion of its work with the Australian Army as part of the Quantum Technology Challenge (QTC). Infleqtion is…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Monday, September 23, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Data Centers Getting Secure Connections via Quantum | AI Business https://aibusiness.com/cybersecurity/data-centers-getting-secure-connections-via-quantum Author: Berenice Baker (Tuesday, September 17, 2024) “BT Group, Equinix and Toshiba have announced plans to provide quantum secure connectivity between Equinix data centers in London…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Friday, September 20, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Construction on Colorado quantum campus launches ‘America’s response’ to beat China | Business | denvergazette.com https://denvergazette.com/news/business/quantum-campus-groundbreaking-arvada-colorado/article_6c7fc4fc-7479-11ef-894e-b30adae78b1b.html Author: Bernadette Berdychowski (Monday, September 16, 2024) “It’s the first major investment into the region’s quantum industry since being named one…

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Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) – Thursday, September 19, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). General News, Articles, and Analyses Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition Publishes Comparison of International PQC Standards https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/post-quantum-cryptography-comparison-international-pqc-standards Author: MITRE (Thursday, September 5, 2024) “The coalition surveyed international regulatory bodies that are defining the quantum-resistance requirements to be followed by technology vendors used…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Tuesday, September 17, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses So you want to build a quantum computer? – Nextgov/FCW https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2024/09/so-you-want-build-quantum-computer/399478/ Author: Alexandra Kelley (Thursday, September 12, 2024) “Leading researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois spoke with Nextgov/FCW about the integrative work that bridges the gap…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Thursday, September 12, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Kipu Quantum Team Says New Quantum Algorithm Outshines Existing Techniques https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/09/09/kipu-quantum-team-says-new-quantum-algorithm-outshines-existing-techniques/ Author: Matt Swayne (Monday, September 9, 2024) “Kipu Quantum-led team of researchers announced the successful testing of what they’re labeling the largest quantum optimization problem…

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Quantum News and Commentary – Tuesday, September 10, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Neutral atom innovations by quantum systems accelerator mark quantum computing milestones https://phys.org/news/2024-09-neutral-atom-quantum-milestones.html Author: Keri Troutman (Friday, September 6, 2024) “Before quantum computers can solve complex problems, researchers must develop technologies that manage larger numbers of qubits…

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