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Quantum – Wednesday, January 8, 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 So, maybe quantum computing stocks won’t keep going up forever. Recent comments from Jim Cramer and Jensen Huang have taken the shine off the huge recent increases. It appears that each believes Practical Quantum Advantage is many…

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Quantum – Friday, December 20, 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 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…

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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 – Wednesday, November 20, 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 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…

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AI – Monday, November 18, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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 +…

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Quantum – Tuesday, November 12, 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 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…

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Quantum – Thursday, October 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 I’m catching up after attending and speaking at the Inside Quantum Technology Quantum+AI conference in New York City this week. As a result, today’s collection of links is a smorgasbord of recent news and articles from the…

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Quantum – Tuesday, October 15, 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 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 – Wednesday, October 2, 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 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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AI – Tuesday, September 24, 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 NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews/ Author: Biao Wang (Wednesday, September 11, 2024) “Today, we’re introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one…

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Quantum – Monday, August 26, 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 IBM’s Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Vision Is Coming – IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-quantum-computer-2668978269 Authors: Ryan Mandelbaum; Antonio D. Corcoles; and Jay Gambetta (Wednesday, August 21, 2024) “For decades, quantum computers have struggled to reach commercial viability. The quantum behaviors that…

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Quantum – Thursday, August 22, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. News, Articles, and Analyses IonQ – IonQ Delivers First Overseas Ion Trap to Switzerland, Progressing Development of Quantum Innovation Hub for EMEA https://investors.ionq.com/news/news-details/2024/IonQ-Delivers-First-Overseas-Ion-Trap-to-Switzerland-Progressing-Development-of-Quantum-Innovation-Hub-for-EMEA/default.aspx (Tuesday, August 13, 2024) “IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), a leader in the quantum computing industry, today announced the delivery of…

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AI – Friday, August 16, 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 Home – AI and Games Conference https://www.aiandgamesconference.com/ (Sunday, July 28, 2024) “The ‘AI and Games Conference’ brings together developers from across the games industry alongside academic researchers to learn, network and discuss applications of artificial intelligence for video…

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Quantum – Monday, August 12, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News, Articles, and Analyses Quantum Machines Announces Inaugural Adaptive Quantum Circuits Conference https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quantum-machines-announces-inaugural-adaptive-quantum-circuits-conference-302217832.html (Thursday, August 08, 2024) “/PRNewswire/ – Quantum Machines, the leading provider of breakthrough quantum control solutions, today announced the inaugural Adaptive Quantum Circuits (AQC)…” Quantum’s big numbers game…

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Quantum – Monday, August 05, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News, Articles, and Analyses Testing spooky action at a distance | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://news.mit.edu/2024/testing-spooky-action-distance-0731 Author: School of Engineering | Department of Mathematics | Department of Physics | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Wednesday, July…

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Quantum – Wednesday, July 31, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News, Articles, and Analyses Quantum Computers Enter Data Centers – IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-data-center (Monday, July 29, 2024) “Data centers and high performance computing clusters around the world are starting to incorporate quantum hardware. But colocating such different technologies and getting them…

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Dr. Bob Sutor on the Superposition Guy’s Podcast Discussing His Career, His Book, and His Current Role as an Industry Analyst

Dr. Bob Sutor, a 40-year industry veteran with a rich background in IBM and other tech companies, reflects on his diverse career from mathematical sciences to quantum computing, emphasizing his shift from a vendor to a broader industry-wide perspective. He also mentions his recent book update, “Dancing with Qubits,” aimed at demystifying quantum computing for…

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