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Quantum News and Commentary – Wednesday, February 19, 2025

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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Useful Quantum Computing – Wednesday, October 23, 2024

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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AI News and Commentary – Tuesday, October 1, 2024

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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AI News and Commentary – Saturday, September 21, 2024

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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Post-Quantum cryptography protecting a futuristic data center

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) – Thursday, September 19, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). General News, Articles, and Analyses Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition Publishes Comparison of International PQC Standards https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/post-quantum-cryptography-comparison-international-pqc-standards Author: MITRE (Thursday, September 5, 2024) “The coalition surveyed international regulatory bodies that are defining the quantum-resistance requirements to be followed by technology vendors used…

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Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) News and Commentary – Thursday, August 29, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). It’s been a couple of weeks since NIST announced the new post-quantum cryptography standards, so there’s been more news, press releases, and analysis of what this means for organizations and their cybersecurity strategies and implementations. Also see: Special NIST Post-Quantum…

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Special NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Edition – Thursday, August 15, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news and articles about the new NIST standards for post-quantum cryptography. News, Articles, and Analyses NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards | NIST https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/nist-releases-first-3-finalized-post-quantum-encryption-standards (Tuesday, August 13, 2024) “NIST is encouraging computer system administrators to begin transitioning to the new standards as soon as possible.” White…

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AI News and Commentary – Tuesday, August 13, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses Why larger LLM context windows are all the rage – IBM Research https://research.ibm.com/blog/larger-context-window (Wednesday, July 24, 2024) “IBM has scaled the context window of its open-source Granite 3B and 8B models to 128,000 tokens, the new industry standard.”…

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