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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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 + 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, Agents, and Skynet – Tuesday, October 22, 2024: 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 Most of the links today concern AI agents, autonomous processes acting in the background on your behalf, or so you think. The comparison to Skynet from the Terminator movies is pretty clear, though no one wants…

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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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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 – Wednesday, September 25, 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 Infleqtion Awarded Phase II Quantum Technology Exploit Contract with Australian Army https://www.infleqtion.com/news/infleqtion-awarded-phase-ii-quantum-technology-exploit-contract-with-australian-army (Tuesday, September 10, 2024) “Infleqtion announced an expansion of its work with the Australian Army as part of the Quantum Technology Challenge (QTC). Infleqtion is…

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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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Quantum – Tuesday, September 17, 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 So you want to build a quantum computer? – Nextgov/FCW https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2024/09/so-you-want-build-quantum-computer/399478/ Author: Alexandra Kelley (Thursday, September 12, 2024) “Leading researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois spoke with Nextgov/FCW about the integrative work that bridges the gap…

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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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