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I’m taking next week off from posting here at nels.ai as we close out 2025
Dec 19 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
2:10
Tracking all the quantum breakthrough announcements
Trying to make sense of all the quantum breakthrough announcements is really getting harder and harder as things progress from research ambition to…
Dec 18 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
5:26
Quantum transitions from research ambition to accountability
Watch now | They are asking for use cases precisely because they do not yet know which problems will survive contact with real hardware.
Dec 17 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
5:17
The real U.S. quantum fabrication map
Listen now | The real U.S. quantum fabrication map only becomes coherent once captive corporate fabs are separated from genuinely accessible Lab-to-Fab…
Dec 16 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
5:15
Meta's pivot to closed models
Listen now | Meta’s shift toward monetized AI models coincides with leadership realignment, highlighting rising tension between open research ideals and…
Dec 15 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
4:03
Quantum fabs in the United States
Listen now | Quantum computing’s real bottleneck is shifting from qubit counts to fabrication control, and only a handful of U.S. facilities are…
Dec 12 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
6:39
The intelligence gap at the heart of the AI bubble
Watch now | Recent neuroscience research argues that large language models produce fluent text without the perceptual grounding or adaptive learning…
Dec 11 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
4:09
IBM shares a quantum readiness report
Listen now | Things move so quickly now that formal research reports feel frozen in time, which fuels my nostalgia for an era when slower analytical…
Dec 10 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
5:16
The shift toward standardized quantum subsystems
Listen now | Quantum hardware firms are pivoting toward specialized, manufacturable components as integrated photonic advances show why modular…
Dec 9 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
3:45
The argument language alone is not intelligence
Watch now (3 mins) | This is big; researchers argue language models obscure the gap between fluent text generation and the perceptual adaptive…
Dec 8 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
3:08
Nanoseconds behind in quantum systems
Geopolitics abound as China’s accelerating quantum investments have narrowed the strategic gap with the United States to what Nobel laureate John M…
Dec 5 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
Insider selling patterns at quantum companies always raise alarms
The drop came even as company financials showed weak third-quarter revenue, intensifying skepticism about Rigetti’s near-term prospects in a…
Dec 4 • Dr. Nels Lindahl
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