Quantum – Wednesday, February 19, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, I am directing my remarks toward quantum computing companies, particularly small ones. Many of your websites need work. Here are a few suggestions: Be explicit about your quantum computing modality and paradigm. For example: “We implement the digital paradigm using neutral atom qubits.” Say you support specific quantum software development kit…

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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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AI Weekend Edition – Saturday, January 18, 2025: 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 Two of the links today are related to an IBM survey of software developers regarding the creation of generative AI apps. TLDR: it’s not easy, and the tools aren’t great. Developers tend to build the tools they…

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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 10, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Today’s Brief Commentary I’m writing this on the afternoon of December 10, the first full day of Q2B Silicon Valley in Santa Clara. Today’s news links have a few items from last week, more world leadership, which I have highlighted, and important news from Infleqtion/NVIDIA and Google. Infleqtion has now demonstrated logical qubits via NVIDIA’s…

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Quantum – Thursday, December 5, 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 This is my last round-up of news and articles about quantum technologies before the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara, California, next week, December 10–12. Several companies, including Equal1 and Alice & Bob, squeezed in announcements…

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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 – 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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AI – Saturday, October 12, 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 Introducing canvas: A new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/ (Thursday, October 3, 2024) “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go…

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AI – Monday, October 7, 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 NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs – NVIDIA ADLR https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/NVLM-1/ Authors: Wenliang Dai; Nayeon Lee; Boxin Wang; Zhuolin Yang; Zihan Liu; Jon Barker; Tuomas Rintamaki; Mohammad Shoeybi; Bryan Catanzaro; and Wei Ping (Tuesday, September 17, 2024) “We introduce…

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AI – Tuesday, October 1, 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 CIOs turn to NIST to tackle generative AI’s many risks | CIO Dive https://www.ciodive.com/news/cio-generative-ai-risk-mitigation-strategy-NIST-framework/728257/ Author: Lindsey Wilkinson (Monday, September 30, 2024) “Discover’s risk reduction strategy closely follows the guidance laid out by the National Institute of Standards…

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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Sunday, September 22, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

General News, Articles, and Analyses How I test an AI chatbot’s coding ability – and you can, too | ZDNET https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-i-test-an-ai-chatbots-coding-ability-and-you-can-too/ Author: David Gewirtz (Friday, August 23, 2024) “This article provides detailed prompts and tests you can repeat on your favorite AI chatbot to see if it can help you program reliably.” Yi-Coder: The open-source…

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AI – Saturday, September 21, 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 High-Level Explanations: Agentic AI Deep-Dive https://deepgram.com/learn/agentic-ai-explained Author: Tife Sanusi (Friday, September 13, 2024) “Agentic AI is the next step in AI’s evolution. The new technology is being actively sought after with organizations from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory,…

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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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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Monday, September 02, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Software expertise powers up quantum computing – Physics World https://physicsworld.com/a/software-expertise-powers-up-quantum-computing/ (Wednesday, August 21, 2024) “Combining research excellence with a direct connection to the National Quantum Computing Centre, the Quantum…

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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Sunday, August 25, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing. General News, Articles, and Analyses The Walrus Operator: Python’s Assignment Expressions – Real Python https://realpython.com/python-walrus-operator/ Author: Geir Arne Hjelle (Wednesday, August 14, 2024) “In this tutorial, you’ll learn about assignment expressions and the walrus operator….

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AI – Thursday, August 01, 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 AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/ (Tuesday, July 23, 2024) “A WIRED investigation finds that major players like Activision Blizzard, which recently laid off scores of workers, are using generative AI…

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