How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

This is the second of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive ...

Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides

Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help ...
CNBC

Amazon AI exec predicts first 'commercially useful' quantum computers in 5-7 years

Amazon AI executive Peter DeSantis told CNBC that in five-to-seven years, "we're going to start to see the first commercially useful small-scale quantum computers." DeSantis leads a new Amazon ...
Wired

Quantum Computing Is Having Its Public Market Moment

Quantinuum lost nearly $200 million last year, saw revenue drop the first quarter of 2026, and says its technology may never work–yet investors are clamoring to buy the stock. The quantum-computer ...
Scientific American

Could the next AI data center be attached to your house?

A unit about the size of an air conditioner, mounted in the side yard, could soon be humming away on artificial intelligence tasks, drawing power from your home’s energy supply and earning you ...
Wall Street Journal

U.S. to Award Quantum-Computing Firms $2 Billion and Take Equity Stakes

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is awarding $2 billion in grants to nine quantum-computing companies in deals that include U.S. government equity stakes, the Commerce Department said. The move ...
CNN

US awards IBM and other firms $2 billion to give America the edge in quantum computing

The US Department of Commerce is awarding $2 billion to American quantum-computing companies — half of which will go to IBM — to bolster the buildout of super computers that could solve some of the ...
Scientific American

Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment

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 ...
Time

AI Helped Spark a Quantum Breakthrough. The World 'Is Not Prepared'

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The Conversation

Moore’s law: the famous rule of computing has reached the end of the road, so what comes next?

For half a century, computing advanced in a reassuring, predictable way. Transistors – devices used to switch electrical signals on a computer chip – became smaller. Consequently, computer chips ...
Forbes

The Rise Of Distributed Data Centers In The AI Era

AI is inspiring organizations to rethink a fundamental IT concept: the data center. For decades, the data center was a centralized place. It was a handful of large, secure facilities where ...
Nature

Distributed parallel computing

This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on Distributed parallel computing. Narrative review articles are also welcomed, to our sister journal Scientific Reviews. For further ...