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Microsoft just had the biggest breakthrough in Quantum computing! Meet Majorana 1 - a chip that can perform incredibly complex calculations that would be impossible for even the largest classical computers… and I got to see it in person!!

iJustine

569,164 views • 1 year ago

0:59

🚨 QUANTUM COMPUTING: THE NEXT TECH GOLD RUSH Quantum computing (QC) is about to blow up the tech world. Think of it as AI on steroids—but here’s the kicker: the entire U.S. quantum sector is worth less than Dogecoin. Imagine buying Bitcoin at $500. That’s where QC is today. Regular computers process in 1s and 0s. QCs use qubits, which can be 1, 0, or both at the same time (superposition). Translation? They solve ridiculously complex problems insanely fast. Google recently ran a calculation on its quantum chip in 5 minutes that would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10 septillion years to complete. Yes, that’s older than the universe. Why it matters: QC isn’t just a cool science project—it’s a game-changer: Medicine: Design drugs in weeks, not years. Finance: Smarter investments, faster decisions. AI: Supercharges AI, making today’s breakthroughs look tiny. McKinsey predicts QC will add trillions to the economy in the next decade. Entire industries will be rewritten. We are closer than most people think. Quantum startups are already hitting 10 qubits, aiming for 100 in 2 years and thousands in 5 years. QC is already solving real problems in medicine, defense, and finance, and platforms like AWS and Google let you rent quantum power right now. Here’s the wild part: the entire U.S. quantum sector is trading for less than a meme coin. Meanwhile, China is outspending the U.S. 5 to 1 in quantum development. Legislation like the Quantum Leadership Act is injecting billions into R&D, but QC’s “ChatGPT moment”—where its potential becomes undeniable—is just 2-3 years away. The upside here is massive. QC isn’t just going to change industries—it’s going to flip them on their heads. When its moment comes, the repricing will be fast and brutal. The clock is ticking. Source: Charles Edwards

Mario Nawfal

1,870,630 views • 1 year ago

1:08

Ethereum Researcher Justin Drake, who co-authored Google's recent quantum paper: "I've stopped thinking about post-quantum as a hurdle that we have to overcome, and I think of it more as an opportunity. It's an opportunity for Ethereum to stand out as the very first global financial system that is post-quantum secure — not just relative to its competitors, but also relative to fiat and tradfi." Justin also believes quantum presents an opportunity for Ethereum to become the best version of itself: “The move to post-quantum is essentially a rewrite, and that’s a massive opportunity to start with a clean slate and wipe our technical debt.” The rewrite bundles post-quantum security with a new ZK virtual machine (LeanVM) that can snarkify the entire consensus layer in real time. The result is that the Ethereum L1 can scale to 10,000 TPS at 1 gigagas/second — while simultaneously becoming quantum-secure. Source: Bankless (Mar 2026)

Etherealize

185,919 views • 4 months ago

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A new scientific understanding of human intuition: 1) We know the body engages in quantum processes despite being “warm, wet and noisy”, conditions for quantum decoherence. Quantum biology is a growing field encapsulating enzyme creation, bird navigation via avian cryptochromes and photosynthesis 2) In science and epistemology we have a problem: why do we see reality in its discrete, macroscopic form and not its probabilistic quantum form? 3) Roger Penrose hypothesized that the brain is a room temperature quantum system collapsing quantum reality into macroscopic reality. Hameroff followed up with a physical candidate for the “collapser”: the microtubules 4) Quantum systems engage in temporal non-locality (along with spatial non-locality). Some hypothesize that in a working quantum computer, we’ll be able to send information back in time. We already can reverse qubit positions in quantum computations! 5) So can the brain also engages in time travel? Why do humans need less information to make snap judgments (than, say, large language models)? Maybe because our brains can access the future. This would might explain remote viewing data as studied by the CIA’s stargate program and validated by President of the American Statistical Society, Jessica Utts (in a more physical model) *I think this this an interesting, generative theory but likely incomplete

Jesse Michels

40,517 views • 1 year ago

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The double-slit experiment is a key demonstration in quantum physics that reveals the strange behavior of particles like electrons and photons. In the experiment, particles are fired at a barrier with two slits, and a screen records where they land. If both slits are open and no measurement is made, the particles form an interference pattern, like waves overlapping, even when sent one at a time. This suggests that each particle passes through both slits at once in a state called superposition. However, if detectors are placed at the slits to observe which path the particle takes, the interference pattern disappears. The particles then behave like classical objects, going through one slit or the other. This change in behavior simply from observing the system is known as the observer effect, and it highlights a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics: measurement affects the outcome. The experiment challenges our understanding of reality, showing that at the quantum level, particles don't have definite states until they are observed 🤓

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51,041 views • 7 months ago

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D-Wave announced a scientific breakthrough published in the esteemed journal Science Magazine, confirming that its annealing quantum computer outperformed one of the world’s most powerful classical supercomputers in solving a complex magnetic materials simulation problem with relevance to materials discovery. The new landmark peer-reviewed paper, “Beyond-Classical Computation in Quantum Simulation,” validates this achievement as the world’s first and only demonstration of quantum computational supremacy on a useful problem. An international collaboration of scientists led by D-Wave performed simulations of quantum dynamics in programmable spin glasses—a computationally hard magnetic materials simulation problem with known applications to business and science—on both D-Wave’s Advantage2™ prototype annealing quantum computer and the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Lab. D-Wave’s quantum computer performed a complex simulation in minutes and with a level of accuracy that would take nearly a million years using the supercomputer. In addition, it would require more than the world’s annual electricity consumption to solve this problem using the supercomputer, which is built with graphics processing unit (GPU) clusters. For decades, scientists have aspired to build a quantum computer capable of solving complex materials simulation problems beyond the reach of classical computers. D-Wave's advancements in quantum hardware have made it possible for its annealing quantum computers to process these types of problems for the first time. Magnetic materials simulations, like those conducted in this work, use computer models to study how tiny particles not visible to the human eye react to external factors. Magnetic materials are widely used in medical imaging, electronics, superconductors, electrical networks, sensors, and motors. This is an incredibly important achievement. Please join us in congratulating the D-Wave team and our global collaborators on this remarkable milestone. It’s a significant moment for the quantum computing industry. Learn more about this monumental achievement: Read the press release here: #QuantumSupremacy #QuantumRealized #QuantumComputing #DWave #Technology #Innovation #Optimization #MaterialsDiscovery #ScientificBreakthrough $QBTS

D-Wave

65,039 views • 1 year ago

1:38:03

Into the quantum realm we go with the brilliant Prineha Narang. Narang earned her PhD in applied physics at Caltech, taught materials science at Harvard and now has her own lab at UCLA. The lab focuses on quantum materials, non-equilibrium dynamics, photonics, quantum information science and other easily digestible areas. Beyond her academic career, Narang is a science advisor to the government and a venture capitalist at DCVC. As you might imagine, we get into quantum computing and quantum technology in this episode. Quantum vs. AI, the US vs. China, when quantum tech will break encryption, quantum sensing and whether or not quantum technology actually has a bright future. The quantum sensing portion of the chat was all new to me and rather astonishing. Since Narang is also a competitive runner and mountaineer, we provide some top tips on gear because that is just the kind of all-purpose podcast that we deliver. Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:16 The physicist who runs marathons 14:03 Cold-emailing her way into IBM 33:02 Did AI steal quantum's thunder? 46:28 Google's encryption bombshell 57:20 The US vs. China quantum race 1:06:48 Quantum sensing: who sneezed? 1:22:28 Should students still bet on quantum? 1:30:38 When does quantum get real? 1:34:54 The gear tip

Ashlee Vance

12,205 views • 1 month ago

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Joe Rogan just said what nobody in finance wants to hear about quantum computing. Rogan: “It’s over. Like there’s no privacy.” He’s not being hyperbolic. He’s being early. Every dollar in every bank account on Earth is protected by one thing. Math. Not vaults. Not guards. Not governments. Math problems that current computers can’t solve fast enough to break. That’s it. RSA encryption. Elliptic curve cryptography. The same math guarding your savings account guards sovereign wealth funds. Defense networks. Nuclear launch protocols. Quantum computing doesn’t pick the lock. It removes the door. A quantum system at sufficient scale breaks RSA encryption in hours. The same problem would take a classical computer longer than the age of the universe. This isn’t theoretical. Google, IBM, and China are racing toward fault-tolerant quantum systems. The timeline isn’t a century. It’s a decade. Maybe less. Rogan: “I think the real problem is the financial market. It’s all numbers, right? It’s all just ones and zeros.” He’s right. And it’s worse than he thinks. The first entity to reach that threshold doesn’t gain an advantage. They gain access. Every encrypted financial transaction ever recorded. Every classified document. Every crypto wallet. Every private key. Every medical record. Every secret ever sent over a wire becomes a postcard. China holds more quantum computing patents than any nation on Earth. Their research runs without public oversight or shareholder pressure. They’ve been harvesting encrypted Western data for years. Intelligence agencies have a name for the strategy. Harvest now, decrypt later. Rogan: “If somebody controls that before we do, if somebody breaks through with this type of technology and then just shuts all the other ones off.” If a foreign power achieves this before post-quantum encryption is deployed, there is no countermove. You can’t un-read stolen data. You can’t restore trust in a system whose entire security model became fiction overnight. People talk about AI as the defining technology of the century. They might be wrong. AI needs data and compute and infrastructure to be dangerous. Quantum computing just needs to exist. One breakthrough. One machine. One moment where the math that protects everything stops being hard enough. Most people heard Rogan and thought exaggeration. The ones paying attention heard a countdown. We built the entire modern world on one assumption. That certain math problems would stay unsolvable forever. Nobody promised us that.

Dustin

11,669 views • 3 months ago

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This woman just shattered everything I thought I knew about quantum physics in 60 seconds 😱 "Quantum physics isn’t just science, it’s logical spirituality. You don’t attract what you want. You align with what you already are." Every version of you already exists in the quantum field - The wealthy you, the happy you, the successful you. "The quantum field doesn’t respond to begging. It responds to certainty." Your most powerful tool is visualization. ‘Our minds don’t know the difference between imagination and reality.’ Time isn’t linear, you can pull your future into the now & re-code your past. You are not a person inside the universe. You ARE the universe experiencing itself through you. "Go live like the miracle you are.”

Interstellar

542,256 views • 2 months ago

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$IONQ CEO: “Two year leads are very consequential in technology.” He says $IONQ is ahead of competitors. Credit where credit is due: $IONQ out-invests every other quantum company in R&D in absolute figures ($125,7 million in Q1 2026) and in growth rate (up 215% YoY). But it’s also made several strategic acquisitions for electronic qubit control (Oxford Ionics) and photonic interconnects (Lightsynq). Both are crucial for scaling logical qubits in quantum chips. In addition, $IONQ also has a cost advantage as it’s expected to build useful quantum computers for less than $30 million. The estimate came from the consulting firm Kearney, not from $IONQ. Superconducting architecture requires 30-50x more to build a quantum computer. Why would it not work out for $IONQ from here?

Investor Denis

11,588 views • 1 month ago

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This woman just shattered everything I thought I knew about quantum physics in 60 seconds 😱 "Quantum physics isn’t just science, it’s logical spirituality. You don’t attract what you want. You align with what you already are." Every version of you already exists in the quantum field - The wealthy you, the happy you, the successful you. "The quantum field doesn’t respond to begging. It responds to certainty." Your most powerful tool is visualization. ‘Our minds don’t know the difference between imagination and reality.’ Time isn’t linear, you can pull your future into the now & recode your past. You are not a person inside the universe. You ARE the universe experiencing itself through you. "Go live like the miracle you are.”

Interstellar

142,095 views • 1 month ago

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People are losing their minds over the idea of quantum computing breaking Bitcoin, but the panic is largely detached from reality. If you listen to Eric Yakes, the fear-mongering is completely off base. The theoretical threat relies on quantum computers factoring large prime numbers fast enough to crack current cryptography. To date, the largest number a quantum computer has successfully factored is 15. "Neven's Law" says quantum power grows at a doubly exponential rate. It's a projection people are using to raise money for their projects, rather than a measurement we are seeing in real life. Compare that to Moore's Law, which we actually watched happen in real time. While physical qubits are increasing and error rates are slowly declining, there is a massive technical hurdle: error rates scale exponentially with qubit count. Adding more power creates more "noise," making the machine harder to stabilize. "But institutional capital is worried!" That's fine. Institutional capital has been wrong about Bitcoin for a decade. If they're selling on quantum FUD, that's cheap sats for the rest of us. Bitcoin devs have been on this for years and are taking steps to mitigate the risk. BIP-360 was just merged into the Bitcoin GitHub repository and Chaincode Labs has published plenty of serious research. If a real threat emerges, every stakeholder is incentivized to adopt quantum-resistant signatures and consensus won't be the obstacle people think it is. Start paying attention to what's actually being built and take your finger off the panic button. Full breakdown 👇

Bitcoin News

15,241 views • 6 months ago

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This is absolutely nuts ... it upends all we know about quantum behavior. Researchers using quantum computers are now seeing something crazy nuts... when a quantum particle is kept in a looping state...a kind of stable, isolated circuit...and it’s observed consistently over time, it doesn’t become more chaotic like we thought. It actually becomes more coherent. More stable. More real. And if that doesn’t mess with your idea of how the universe works, stop reading now. Let me say it this way ...this data is showing that conscious observation isn’t just a collapse event...it’s a stabilizing force. We used to think that looking at a quantum particle caused its wave-like uncertainty to "collapse" into something concrete. But what if the real magic is what happens when you keep looking? What if focused awareness...sustained attention...actually shapes and strengthens the very fabric of reality? That means reality doesn’t just pop into existence when you look at it. It takes form and holds shape when you keep looking. That is what they're finding. This is what interests me ...every ancient teaching...from the sages of India to mystic philosophers to indigenous wisdom...has said that focused awareness is the key to shaping your world. Not by thought alone. But by presence. And now quantum computers...literal machines tapping into the substructure of existence...are backing that up with hard data. What you give your attention to, stabilizes. What you ignore, unravels. I don't think we're in philosophy world anymore. It's actual physics. This could be the real reason consciousness matters. Not just as a passive observer. But as a force of cosmic coherence. Your awareness isn’t just along for the ride...it might be what holds the wheel steady. The more coherent your observation, the more coherent the quantum field becomes. That sounds a lot like meditation, doesn’t it? Like focus creates order. Inner stillness influencing outer reality. Suddenly all that talk about the observer being the creator doesn’t sound so far-fetched does it? We may have found the smoking gun that links consciousness and creation. Not metaphorically. Literally. Your sustained awareness might be the most powerful force in the universe. Not because it controls things...but because it stabilizes them. Brings them into alignment. Into being. Into coherence. Not by force. But by presence. The more we observe the loop, the more the loop becomes real. Now you tell me...who's really shaping this reality? I can't believe it.

Jason Wilde

393,727 views • 1 year ago

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$IonQ Tennessee just allocated $20M to accelerate quantum computing - 🧵 Governor Bill Lee’s FY27 budget includes funding specifically designed to attract federal and private investment in quantum, targeting advanced manufacturing, life sciences, and logistics sectors. Why this matters: State-level quantum funding signals a shift from pure research to economic deployment. Tennessee isn’t funding university labs - they’re building infrastructure to attract quantum companies and create high-wage jobs. Tennessee already has Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the world’s premier quantum research facilities. Adding $20M in state support creates a complete ecosystem: research capability, government backing, workforce development, and commercial deployment pathways. The timing is perfect: Quantum companies with deployable systems can now tap into state partnerships, regional contracts, and workforce programs. This creates real commercialization opportunities beyond federal research grants. For context, IonQ already works with Oak Ridge and has the commercial systems ready to deploy. But this funding isn’t just about one company - it’s about Tennessee positioning itself as THE quantum hub in the Southeast, competing with Colorado, Maryland, and California. What to watch: When states start competing for quantum companies with actual budget allocations, it validates that quantum computing is becoming an economic sector, not just a science project. Expect more states to follow Tennessee’s lead in 2026. The quantum industry is transitioning from “interesting research” to “strategic economic investment” at the state government level. That’s a meaningful milestone. 🎯 #QuantumComputing #Tennessee #Innovation #IONQ #EconomicPolicy #TechIndustry

TechInnovation

15,775 views • 6 months ago

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$IONQ The U.S. National Science Foundation just launched Project Triad: "the first-ever system where quantum sensing, networking and computing work together in concert," built to turn quantum into real-world applications across safety, healthcare, energy and defense. Now look at the elements. Sensing, computing, networking, the exact three domains NSF wants to unite. IonQ Federal's Rick Muller laid out all three at World Quantum Day, months earlier: Sensing: PNT clocks roughly 1000× more accurate than GPS (Vector Atomic), plus space (Capella) and optical comms (Skyloom). Networking: a contract in DARPA's Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum (HARQ) program, plus QKD and entanglement distribution. Computing: nearing fault-tolerant operation in DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), verified by DARPA. So it's not one program. IonQ is stacking two DARPA programs (HARQ and QBI) on top of the Vector Atomic, Capella and Skyloom acquisitions. His words: "IonQ can provide an engine to drive federal quantum integration that no other companies can." Now put the two diagrams side by side. NSF's illustration of an "integrated quantum system" and IonQ's timing architecture are the same picture: networked satellites, ground stations, sensors and a quantum computer, tied together by quantum links. NSF hasn't named a company. But it's building a national program around the architecture IonQ already has, down to the diagram. Sound familiar? 🔗 #IonQ #Quantum #ProjectTriad

TechInnovation

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