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 – 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 – Friday, November 15, 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 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…

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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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AI – Friday, November 8, 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 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…

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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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AI – Monday, October 28, 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 Today’s links provide several points of view on topics related to Generative AI. Are open source LLMs (large language models) better than proprietary ones? In fact, is “open source” the right way of making these models available…

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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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AI – Thursday, October 24, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Paper

Today’s Brief Commentary Do tech vendors think the general public wants to know the in-the-weeds details of their products? This seems to be the case with both AI and quantum providers. While I understand the details are important to implementors, engineers, and some users, I think most people don’t care about the umpteen variations of…

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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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Quantum – Monday, October 21, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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 – 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 – Friday, October 11, 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 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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