Quantum – Thursday, February 13, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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, but the final amount of $230 M from all investors is impressive. Congratulations to the…

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Quantum – Friday, January 24, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This last week has been the first of 2025 when the stock prices for public quantum companies have not dominated discussions. That topic is not going away, but we are beginning to see more announcements of solid…

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Quantum – Wednesday, January 15, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary While it sometimes seems that everyone who has heard the term “AI” has started their own Substack newsletter on the topic, we are not quite there with quantum computing. Nevertheless, we appear to be gaining at least…

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Quantum – Tuesday, December 31, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Quantum – Tuesday, December 17, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Quantum – Monday, December 2, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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)….

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Quantum – Monday, November 25, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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,…

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Useful Quantum Computing – Wednesday, October 23, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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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AI – Saturday, October 12, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Introducing canvas: A new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/ (Thursday, October 3, 2024) “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go…

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Quantum – Tuesday, October 8, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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 – Tuesday, October 1, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses CIOs turn to NIST to tackle generative AI’s many risks | CIO Dive https://www.ciodive.com/news/cio-generative-ai-risk-mitigation-strategy-NIST-framework/728257/ Author: Lindsey Wilkinson (Monday, September 30, 2024) “Discover’s risk reduction strategy closely follows the guidance laid out by the National Institute of Standards…

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Quantum – Monday, September 23, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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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AI – Thursday, September 5, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed: Avoiding the Anti-Patterns of AI | RAND https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html Authors: Ryseff, James; De Bruhl, Brandon; and Newberry, Sydne J. (Tuesday, August 13, 2024)…

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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Monday, September 02, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Software expertise powers up quantum computing – Physics World https://physicsworld.com/a/software-expertise-powers-up-quantum-computing/ (Wednesday, August 21, 2024) “Combining research excellence with a direct connection to the National Quantum Computing Centre, the Quantum…

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AI – Tuesday, August 13, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses Why larger LLM context windows are all the rage – IBM Research https://research.ibm.com/blog/larger-context-window (Wednesday, July 24, 2024) “IBM has scaled the context window of its open-source Granite 3B and 8B models to 128,000 tokens, the new industry standard.”…

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