Google Quantum AI cut errors in the magic states made on its Willow chip roughly 40-fold, using a technique called cultivation. The states still fail about once in 10,000 attempts, Scientific American reported, against one in a million or better for simulating molecules.
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buildConfirmed5 publishers Google Quantum AI says magic state cultivation cut errors about 40x on its Willow chip, in a result published in Science. The up-to-95% overhead figure is an older estimate, and Google says the protocol still needs a larger-scale demonstration.
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The Sandia-led QUOPS benchmark rates a quantum computer by the largest useful circuit it can finish and how fast it finishes it. Across Google, IBM and Quantinuum machines the best score was 1,824, against a chemistry target of 250 million.
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Nvidia's $20 billion license-and-hire left Groq refitting its data centers with Nvidia hardware
Groq kept its data centers and its customer contracts while most of its engineers became Nvidians inside eight days, and the three customers who spoke on the record disagree about what that cost them.
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Google and Ethereum set 2029 dates one year ahead of NIST's ECDSA deprecation
LayerZero shipped a lattice-based proof component on Wednesday; Coinbase gathered Bitcoin developers and custodians at Stanford and left without a chosen signature scheme, which is the piece no date can order.
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Pixel 11 Pro XL: the upgrade you can feel is shutter lag and a dictation tool
TechCrunch's reviewer found snappier cameras, a dictation feature good enough to write with, and a rear notification light that does not signal texts.
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The startup says a new model, Canto, will cut error rates from 30% to under 10% after weeks of user complaints. It is also entering meeting notes, where three incumbents already sit.
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Wispr's $280M bet: voice input's problem is accuracy, not appetite
The Series B values the dictation app at $2 billion and funds a push into meeting notes, a category where two of the four rivals Wispr names are already in California court.
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