Alright, buckle up folks for the last ship before the end of July. Because we will be talking about Superconductors and LK-99! So, like last year (and years before) there is a new claim of a mateiral that can reach superconducting state at room temperature. If that were to be true, forget about ChatGPT, Web3 or anything else, because that would be the true hype of the decade. Among many applications, something like that could truly take quantum computing all the way to the scalable and usable range. BUT as you can imagine there is a lot of skepticism on it. You can read more about it on Quantum Zeitgeist on LK99.Besides that this week in quantum news has more twists and turns than a rambunctious electron in a superposition! Quantum algorithms are tackling maze-solving. US sanctions could be pushing the Russian and Chinese collaboration further, leading to epic brain signal detecting quantum sensors and potentially new materials. And, who knew healthcare had a need for speed? NTT Data sure did! They're pioneering a marriage between quantum and classical computing to assemble genomes faster than you can say "deoxyribonucleic acid".Over in teleportation news, a team has juiced up metropolitan quantum teleportation to the hertz rate, using a low-Earth orbit Micius satellite. Silicon Quantum Computing which collected $50.4 million in series A, a little shy from their $130 million target. And Q-CTRL raised a cool $54 million in their series B. At the same time Zapata Computing (recently positioning themselves as the Quantum Generative AI company, a mouthful!) got a $4.8 million boost in non-equity financing. SemiQon and Qblox have secured a sweet €2.5 million funding from the European Innovation Council.Unilever is looking to quantum computing to give their beauty innovation a facelift (pun intended!). Meanwhile, Atom Computing and NREL are joining forces to optimize the electric grid, which means we might just keep the AC running all summer long. PASQAL, on the other hand, is offering €50,000 to the best quantum solution for sustainable energy in a hackathon. The insurance industry is already bracing itself for the quantum computing challenge. Will insurance companies consider the cybersecurity risk in their risk calculations? Well, at least NISQ added 50 new algorithms for their Post Quantum strategy, given that the first 4 are possible not enough.
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The Week in Quantum Computing - July 31st
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Alright, buckle up folks for the last ship before the end of July. Because we will be talking about Superconductors and LK-99! So, like last year (and years before) there is a new claim of a mateiral that can reach superconducting state at room temperature. If that were to be true, forget about ChatGPT, Web3 or anything else, because that would be the true hype of the decade. Among many applications, something like that could truly take quantum computing all the way to the scalable and usable range. BUT as you can imagine there is a lot of skepticism on it. You can read more about it on Quantum Zeitgeist on LK99.Besides that this week in quantum news has more twists and turns than a rambunctious electron in a superposition! Quantum algorithms are tackling maze-solving. US sanctions could be pushing the Russian and Chinese collaboration further, leading to epic brain signal detecting quantum sensors and potentially new materials. And, who knew healthcare had a need for speed? NTT Data sure did! They're pioneering a marriage between quantum and classical computing to assemble genomes faster than you can say "deoxyribonucleic acid".Over in teleportation news, a team has juiced up metropolitan quantum teleportation to the hertz rate, using a low-Earth orbit Micius satellite. Silicon Quantum Computing which collected $50.4 million in series A, a little shy from their $130 million target. And Q-CTRL raised a cool $54 million in their series B. At the same time Zapata Computing (recently positioning themselves as the Quantum Generative AI company, a mouthful!) got a $4.8 million boost in non-equity financing. SemiQon and Qblox have secured a sweet €2.5 million funding from the European Innovation Council.Unilever is looking to quantum computing to give their beauty innovation a facelift (pun intended!). Meanwhile, Atom Computing and NREL are joining forces to optimize the electric grid, which means we might just keep the AC running all summer long. PASQAL, on the other hand, is offering €50,000 to the best quantum solution for sustainable energy in a hackathon. The insurance industry is already bracing itself for the quantum computing challenge. Will insurance companies consider the cybersecurity risk in their risk calculations? Well, at least NISQ added 50 new algorithms for their Post Quantum strategy, given that the first 4 are possible not enough.