Four decades ago, physicists were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make a new kind of computer that’s exponentially more powerful than conventional ...

The US government wants to get hold of a quantum computer good enough to contribute to scientific breakthroughs in just two ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -IBM announced on Wednesday it has built a new experimental quantum computing chip called Loon that demonstrates it hit a key milestone toward making useful quantum computers ...

Quantum computing news usually picks up near the end of the year, as companies try to provide evidence that they are hitting benchmarks on time. However, there have been interesting announcements as ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...

A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from ...

Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that’s what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and ...

The Nvidia logo outside the company's offices in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. Credit - Qilai Shen—Bloomberg/Getty Images In the last two weeks, NVIDIA, the enabler and chief beneficiary ...

Classical computing gave us automation. What's coming next is something closer to a factory that thinks. But getting there requires two technologies converging in a way that many might not fully ...

Algorithms called phantom codes could help quantum computers run complex programs without errors, overcoming a big hurdle for making the technology more broadly useful. Many popular error-correcting ...

IonQ uses trapped ions to develop quantum computers on the gate-based model, the most common framework. It benefits from vertical integration, meaning it controls much of its supply chain by building ...