Ep 4: Google's Self-Calibrating Willow Chip Hits a New Error Record

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Google Quantum AI's Nature paper on a self-calibrating Willow chip headlines today's episode, alongside foundry-scaled silicon qubits, mechanical quantum memory, a small D-Wave grant with big strategic implications, a theory breakthrough on fault-tolerance overhead, an ion-trap deal in Korea, and a US-EU policy roundup. Linked sources: Google Quantum AI: Reinforcement Learning Sets New Logical-Qubit Error Record on Willow — Quantum Zeitgeist / Nature Diraq Demonstrates Scaled Foundry-Fabricated Silicon-Based Qubit Array Made at imec — The Quantum Insider ETH Zurich Demonstrates Quantum Architecture With Mechanical Working Memory — The Quantum Insider D-Wave Wins NSF Grant for Fault-Tolerant 'ERASE' Project — X/@Alan_Baratz PRX Quantum: Constant-Overhead Fault-Tolerant Computation via Parallelized Code Surgery — X/@PRX_Quantum QUDORA Partners with QAI to Bring Ion-Trap Quantum Computing to South Korea — The Quantum Insider White House Quantum Summit: America's Commitment to a Quantum Future — The Quantum Insider EuroHPC JU Opens Access to Six Funded Quantum Computers, Co-Funds Two More — Quantum Zeitgeist Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.