This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A $5 million prize awaits proof that quantum computers can ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all.

Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to solve. At the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), ...

Thinking about a career in quantum computing? It’s a field that’s really starting to take off, and understanding what you ...

Quantum AI may become the most consequential technology in human history. Yet it feels like someone else's problem to us.

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

Gilles Brassard and Charles H. Bennett share the 2025 Turing Award for their pioneering work on quantum information science.

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...

Charles H. Bennett helped pioneer the foundations of quantum information science alongside co-laureate Gilles Brassard of ...

When the commercial, scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing era really begins, when it becomes widely available, it will ...

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The quantum computing powerhouse has already lost over 60% of its peak value, but more downside could be on the way.