Amazon AI executive Peter DeSantis told CNBC that in five-to-seven years, "we're going to start to see the first commercially useful small-scale quantum computers." DeSantis leads a new Amazon ...

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence Microsoft claimed today that it has improved its ...

The US Department of Commerce is awarding $2 billion to American quantum-computing companies — half of which will go to IBM — to bolster the buildout of super computers that could solve some of the ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...

The clock is ticking on Q-Day, the looming yet unknown date when quantum computing will have the capacity to quickly and easily break the encryption keys that keep most internet communication safe.

While quantum computing has a long way to go, it can open tantalizing new doors for the field of genomics. herstockart/iStock via Getty Images Plus Decades after researches first sequenced the human ...

Microsoft’s research arm has long been fascinated with working with large amounts of data at scale. Projects like TerraServer explored how to search and display geospatial data, mixing mapping and ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

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A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...

Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. SEE MORE by Alan Boyle on Feb 24, 2026 at 12:49 pm February 27, 2026 at 1:44 pm An artist’s conception shows the Sophia 40 TILE satellite, ...

Silicon-based artificial intelligence has come a very long way in a very short space of time, driving massive advances in the large language models that sit at the heart of today’s generative AI ...