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July 28, 2026 — AT&T's Quantum Speedup: One Hour to Fifteen Seconds
Episode 23
Published 2 months, 1 week ago
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AT&T expands its commercial deal with D-Wave after quantum annealing hardware reportedly cut a network optimization workload from an hour to under fifteen seconds, landing the same week D-Wave rang the Nasdaq opening bell and shares jumped over twenty percent. Also today: ZuriQ's seed round for two-dimensional trapped-ion chips, a new hybrid quantum-classical supercomputer coming to Pittsburgh, phonon-based qubit wiring from Warwick, Quantinuum's latest error-correction numbers, a Hong Kong banking readiness report, and a PsiQuantum construction update.
- Linked sources: AT&T Expands D-Wave Partnership — Quantum Computing Report
- ZuriQ Raises $25.5 Million — The Quantum Insider
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Hybrid Supercomputer — The Quantum Insider
- New Quantum Chip Architecture Using Vibrations — Quantum Physics News
- Quantinuum Fault-Tolerant State Preparation — Quantum Zeitgeist
- Hong Kong Banks Face Long Road to Quantum Security — The Quantum Insider
- PsiQuantum Facility Progress — X/@AusAmbUSA
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