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Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m heading back to the UK this weekend for meetings in Cambridge and London. In particular, I’m attending the first meeting of the Quantum Datacenter Alliance on Thursday, June 26, at the Battersea Power Station, London. The…
Today’s Brief Commentary: The quantum world is on fire this week with acquisitions, roadmaps, and the adoption of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). I’ve included several curated links, as usual, but I’ve limited myself to a reasonable number of them. My goal…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’ve been traveling in the UK this week to attend and speak at the Economist Impact 4th annual Commercialising Quantum Global 2025 conference in London. It was a great event as usual, with roughly 25% of the…
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Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m pushing this newsletter out on a Sunday because two big industry events are coming up this week. The first is the NVIDIA GTC AI conference in San Jose, California. It runs from Monday the 17st through…
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