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Can quantum computers now solve health care problems? We’ll soon find out.

Unfortunately, those patterns are hidden inside data sets so large that they overwhelm classical solvers. Infleqtion uses the quantum computer to find correlations in the data that can reduce the size of... Read more »

The Download: Quantum computing for health, and why the world doesn’t recycle more nuclear waste

The prize will go to the quantum computer that can solve real health care problems that conventional “classical” computers are unable to solve. But there can be only one big winner—if there... Read more »

A $5 million prize awaits proof that quantum computers can solve health care problems

Unfortunately, those patterns are hidden inside data sets so large that they overwhelm classical solvers. Infleqtion uses the quantum computer to find correlations in the data that can reduce the size of... Read more »

Why the world doesn’t recycle more nuclear waste

My reporting also helped answer another question that was lingering in my brain: Why doesn’t the world recycle more nuclear waste? There’s still a lot of usable uranium in spent nuclear fuel... Read more »

The Download: The Pentagon’s new AI plans, and next-gen nuclear reactors

Now off-the-shelf technology—Starlink terminals, plug-and-play nautical autopilots, high-resolution video cameras—may be advancing that cat-and-mouse game into a new phase.  Uncrewed subs could move more cocaine over longer distances, and they wouldn’t put human smugglers... Read more »

What do new nuclear reactors mean for waste?

On the other hand, some other reactor designs could produce a smaller volume of spent fuel, but that isn’t necessarily a smaller problem. Fast reactors, for example, achieve a higher burn-up, consuming... Read more »

The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says

Training versions of AI models on classified data is expected to make them more accurate and effective in certain tasks, according to a US defense official who spoke on background with MIT... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s US military deal, and Grok’s CSAM lawsuit

Quote of the day  “The inference inflection has arrived.”  —Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims we’ve reached a tipping point where AI usage is accelerating faster than its development, AP reports.  One More Thing  Meet the... Read more »

Where OpenAI’s technology could show up in Iran

It’s unclear what OpenAI’s motivations are. It’s not the first tech giant to embrace military contracts it had once vowed never to enter into, but the speed of the pivot was notable.... Read more »

Nurturing agentic AI beyond the toddler stage

The accountability challenge: It’s not them, it’s you Until now, governance has been focused on model output risks with humans in the loop before consequential decisions were made—such as with loan approvals... Read more »