July 28, 2026 — AT&T's Quantum Speedup: One Hour to Fifteen Seconds
AT&T expands its commercial deal with D-Wave after quantum annealing hardware reportedly cut a network optimization workload from an hour to under fifteen seconds, landing the same week D-Wave rang the Nasdaq opening bell and shares jumped over twenty percent. Also today: ZuriQ's seed round for two-dimensional trapped-ion chips, a new hybrid quantum-classical supercomputer coming to Pittsburgh, phonon-based qubit wiring from Warwick, Quantinuum's latest error-correction numbers, a Hong Kong banking readiness report, and a PsiQuantum construction update.
Linked sources: AT&T Expands D-Wave…
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