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Analysis · Science
Logical qubits are half the story. Error correction also needs decoders that keep pace with the chip and magic states that eat most of the hardware. Here is where Willow and Helios stand.
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Honoured for work on chirality and asymmetric synthesis. They share 12 million kronor.
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Neutral-atom arrays trap thousands of qubits with laser tweezers and skip the dilution fridge. Here is what QuEra and Harvard's logical qubits actually prove, and what they don't.
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The explosion of AI data is physically breaking our datacenters. Here is why engineers are hijacking biological enzymes to store exabytes of data inside a single test tube.
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Silicon is hitting a thermal wall. Now, startups are launching commercial cloud platforms powered by living biological neurons that consume one million times less power than traditional AI hardware.
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Google's new 105-qubit Willow chip just proved that adding qubits can exponentially reduce errors, leapfrogging classical supercomputers and breaking the quantum scaling barrier.
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DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 isn't just generating text or images. It's predicting the fundamental building blocks of life, and it's about to turn the $1.5 trillion pharma industry upside down.
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Microsoft and Quantinuum just created reliable logical qubits, solving quantum computing's biggest physical hurdle. Here is why error correction changes everything.
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The race to connect our brains directly to computers is no longer sci-fi. Here is why Neuralink's robot, Synchron's stent, and Precision's micro-film are fighting for your motor cortex.