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the use of 'quantum' appears to be tagging onto the potential of quantum annealers (which have repetitively [1] [2] been shown to be classically tractable) while trying to mimic a kind of quantum tunneling, ie the annealing schedule, without any kind of promises about exponential speedups etc. Quantum annealers themselves have few promised advantages for general combinatorial optimization problems without significant changes to extant hardware paradigms [3]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05693 [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22117 [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09913

there's still a long road to commercial applications but today's hardware is simulating quantum systems beyond the scale of classical methods, for example [1]; an interesting line of work opposite to this can be found in those who improve classical methods towards such examples [2], but these are only developed because of the existing quantum hardware

Really though, today's IBM hardware is good fun to play with, eg for generating moderately large GHZ states

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26845 [2]https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14887

They recently bought a more gate based quantum computing company [1]

[1] https://www.dwavequantum.com/company/newsroom/press-release/...

Kind of off topic as that was the previous Trump administration, but they were also a 'shack of clowns'

The actual article that this summarizes is free and linked on the briefing

Would you be able to recommend resources on learning towards becoming somewhat trained in typography? Beyond blogs and coursera courses, where might one start?

This is a really interesting line of thought which, coupled with current protections via this idea of corporate personhood, does begin to portray companies as being far above mere workers in power and status.