Quantum – Wednesday, February 26, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Today’s Brief Commentary: If you haven’t seen it, my commentary about quantum computing vendors and the trust they must nurture among the public, customers, and users is available on Substack. This is looking to be a busy week for quantum computing, and it is only Wednesday morning as I write this. IonQ announces earnings after…

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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 – Wednesday, January 22, 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 No commentary today, just an announcement. Together with Lawrence Gasman, I’ll be putting together the program for the next Inside Quantum Technology Q+AI conference in New York City from October 20 to 22. That’s a while from…

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Quantum – Saturday, January 11, 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 I’m exhausted from hearing about and discussing the drop in stock prices of quantum companies (and even some that only have “quantum” in their names). Here is my net: these quantum computing stocks were driven up to…

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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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AI – Sunday, December 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 AI. Today’s Brief Commentary I spent this last week at the Q2B conference in Santa Clara, California, so my mind has focused more on quantum technologies than AI. That’s my excuse for playing catch-up on AI topics in this newsletter edition….

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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 – 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, 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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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 – 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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Quantum – Friday, October 4, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s collection has a special focus on quantum networking and communication, plus some teleportation and error correction. General News, Articles, and Analyses Quantinuum achieves moonshot years ahead of schedule, demonstrating fault-tolerant high-fidelity teleportation of a logical qubit https://www.quantinuum.com/blog/quantinuum-achieves-moonshot-years-ahead-of-schedule-demonstrating-fault-tolerant-high-fidelity-teleportation-of-a-logical-qubit (Friday, September 20, 2024)…

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Quantum – Tuesday, September 03, 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 1. Quantum compass could soon make GPS-Free navigation a reality – Electronic Products & TechnologyElectronic Products & Technology https://www.ept.ca/2024/08/quantum-compass-could-soon-make-gps-free-navigation-a-reality/ (Thursday, August 22, 2024) “A milestone in quantum sensing is drawing closer, promising greater accuracy” 2. Quantum Network…

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Quantum – Thursday, August 08, 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 China’s Quantum Ambitions: A Multi-Decade Focus on Quantum Communications — Yale Journal of International Affairs https://www.yalejournal.org/publications/chinas-quantum-ambitions (Friday, February 02, 2024) “Ciel Qi analyzes China’s progress in quantum communications and its implications for U.S. national security, recommending a…

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