AT&T's Quantum Speedup: One Hour to Fifteen Seconds

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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 Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.