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Weis wrote that Claude was used to port the classical CADO-NFS factoring software to GPUs and to orchestrate the run during idle time. He wrote that RSA-2048 keys are unaffected but RSA-1024 keys are vulnerable to large GPU fleets.
In a circular dated August 27, SAMA required supervised institutions to make their procedures for identifying and classifying cryptographic assets accurate and comprehensive by the end of 2026, ahead of a quantum risk assessment due in March 2027.
The team restored error suppression in a stand-in test for logic gates by removing defective parts. The larger distance-5 code beat a distance-3 code only after the team discarded runs affected by leakage, and only in one basis.
The team measured how single photons move one step at a time, then multiplied those measurements into amplitudes for 1,419,857 paths. The authors wrote that more refined methods are needed to settle whether the paths are physically real.
Stuttgart physicists shielded single strontium atoms from thermal microwaves with coated glass plates and measured one state's room-temperature lifetime at about 21 times its free-space value. Qubit coherence in their setup remains at the 100-microsecond scale, they wrote.
Europe's quantum industry consortium said the European Commission kept six quantum pilot lines in its draft but listed no quantum area among its priorities for strategic projects. It asked for quantum chip manufacturing to be added.
Companies that demonstrate a first-generation machine at an evaluation planned for September 2028 would split a $100 million pool. Only $2.5 million of the planned total is fiscal 2026 money.
The parallel gate took 14.8 microseconds and had an estimated fidelity of 0.92. The authors wrote that errors in preparing and reading out the qubits still limit the entangled states they can make.
Researchers lengthened a surface code in one direction on IBM Heron processors and reduced the matching type of logical error. With a measure that combined both error types, the team found no subthreshold scaling on its best-performing chip.
One block of Infleqtion's code stores 18 logical qubits in 98 physical data qubits. Infleqtion's Victory Omole wrote that those numbers are "not a hardware resource estimate." The company has not run the code on hardware.