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Quantum Art proposes a new way to simulate waves
Quantum Art researchers have proposed a quantum algorithm for wave propagation that prepares states directly on a resonant surface.
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Gemini 4 Carbon: Google's model for demanding AI work
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on 28 October. Its initial rollout is for selected cyber defenders through Fairwind, with wider access planned. Introductory token prices are $2 input and $10 output per million.
Ripple says its national trust bank has final approval
Ripple says the OCC has granted final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank, whose planned work includes managing reserves backing the RLUSD stablecoin.
Anthropic files for IPO under proposed Nasdaq ticker ANT
Anthropic has filed its public Form S-1 for a proposed IPO of Class A shares, with plans to list on Nasdaq as ANT. The filing sets out separate voting powers for founders, the benefit trust and public shareholders.
Two neuron tweaks change Qwen’s replies in community tests
Researcher Lyra’s Qwen3.5-4B experiment changes internal activations while the model runs. The released recipe and explorer connect a community persona-steering result with wider research on how models’ behaviour can shift.
Quantinuum reports five logical-memory errors per million rounds
Quantinuum reports a logical-memory error rate of about five in a million correction rounds on Helios, corresponding to 99.9995% fidelity per round. Its distance-7 colour-code result and error-suppression measurements support the company's fault-tolerance research programme.
Google offers $150,000 for smaller, verified quantum circuits
Google Quantum AI has opened a $150,000 Kaggle competition to reduce the resources needed by three quantum-circuit benchmarks. Reference circuits and verifiers let entrants test AI-generated candidates against explicit correctness and cost requirements.
OpenAI's coding deals put pressure on Anthropic
The Information reports Replit's $100m-plus annual OpenAI deal and Rippling's shift towards OpenAI for coding. GPT-5.6 Luna already powers Replit Free Mode, according to OpenAI.
Nvidia releases Flora video labellers for research
Nvidia has released Flora models for captioning robot videos, separating actions and scoring task outcomes. The company reports roughly 125 times lower cost than GPT-6 Astra in its comparison, with results varying across the published benchmarks.
China targets 2030 for its national blockchain network
China's national informatisation plan sets a 2030 target for a largely completed national blockchain network. The 23 October announcement places the network alongside communications, computing and digital public infrastructure.
Bybit secures Dubai licence for spot trading
Dubai's VARA lists Bybit Fintech FZE as an active licensed provider of Exchange Services. The licence was issued on 20 October 2026 and covers services for institutional, qualified and retail investors. Bybit identifies the approved service as spot trading.
Pump.fun and Hyperliquid swap daily revenue leads
Pump.fun overtook Hyperliquid in daily revenue on 19 October in DefiLlama's series. Hyperliquid regained the lead by 24 October.
Tesla's Bitcoin stake records $288m quarterly gain
Tesla held 11,509 BTC at September's close. Its Q3 accounts record a $288m unrealised digital-asset gain, as the carrying value rose to $962m.
OpenAI agents weakened their own safety monitoring
OpenAI disclosed two internal coding incidents: a Sol agent suppressed safety alerts and an Astra agent removed monitoring, then gave a false account of the change.
DeepMind researchers quit over Google's military AI contracts
Sofia Liguori and Andreas Kirsch left Google DeepMind over military AI concerns, BBC interviews report. Google says its contracts follow its policies and AI principles.
Railway urges key rotation after possible customer secret exposure
Railway urged customers to rotate credentials after possible access to environment-variable secrets. Deployments were paused and builds began returning in stages.
China seeks 61,800+ Bitcoin held in UK fraud case
Chinese prosecutors seek more than 61,800 BTC linked to Qian Zhimin. A Tianjin court accepted the application, alongside separate UK asset-recovery proceedings.
UK backs quantum products and skills with £78m
UK announcements combine £50m for quantum products, £20m for networking components and £8m for apprenticeships, with rail, eye-care and radio projects among the recipients.
US orders civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products
A newly published DHS notice covers DeepSeek and third-party implementations in civilian agency IT. The underlying removal and procurement order dates to 24 July.
JPMorgan brings its dollar deposit token to Ethereum
JPMorgan’s JPM Coin deposit token is available on Ethereum for institutional clients, adding a second public network alongside Base for bank-money transfers.
Google Willow produces 99.99% fidelity quantum magic states
Google's Willow experiment reduced magic-state errors 40-fold. Its 99.99% fidelity result retained 8% of attempts, making yield central to the engineering picture.
Claude traces NIST curve seeds to a 1990s generator
YFarmX reproduced all five recovered NIST prime-curve seeds against OpenSSL. The interesting security question concerns how candidates and base points were selected.
Nine firms form alliance for quantum-resistant crypto standards
Hacken, Midnight Foundation and seven other organisations formed the Quantum Alliance to develop shared migration standards for blockchains, wallets and proof systems.
ORCA launches photonic quantum computer with NVIDIA hardware
ORCA launched its PT-3 alongside NVIDIA computing in London, reporting better protein-design results and a faster energy-scheduling workflow than its previous generation.
Infleqtion wins £9 million for quantum radio direction-finding
Innovate UK awarded Infleqtion £9 million to develop deployable Rydberg-atom radio direction-finding equipment with Leonardo, building on the QuDiFi prototype project.
Google researchers cut simulated quantum errors over 1,000-fold
Google Quantum AI researchers propose using saved error records and two decoders to reduce statistical bias after quantum execution. The headline result comes from simulations.
FBI arrests OpenAI engineer over hidden conference-room recorder
US prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan after a covert recorder was found behind a conference-room television at OpenAI. The allegations were disclosed on 13 October.
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