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 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 – 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, 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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Quantum – Thursday, November 7, 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 There is so much going on across quantum technologies these days that I’ve had to use new categories for computing, networking, and sensing, both general and technical. This is a good thing, and I hope the sections…

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Quantum – Saturday, November 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 Today’s links include three to press releases for planned Q3 2024 earnings reports for D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing. All have announced deals this quarter and some interesting results. The big news was the US Air Force…

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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 + AI Together – Saturday, October 26, 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 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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Quantum – Friday, October 18, 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 Regarding “hybrid quantum computing,” please try to use a quantum computer with no classical computer in the process. No laptop, no cloud, no classical control, no classical processes in the workflow, no classical code at all. You…

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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 – 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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