With AI taking the lion's share of the tech industry's attention, it can be easy to forget about quantum computing. For a long time we didn't really know whether quantum or AI would be first to make ripples, but AI's giant waves quickly put that question to bed. Progress with quantum has been ticking along in the background though and still holds the promise of some mind-boggling improvements in computation.
To this end, according to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is in talks with several quantum computing companies, discussing the possibility of funding them in return for the US government becoming a shareholder. These companies include IonQ, Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum, and apparently there's discussion of minimum funding awards of $10 million each, so say "people familiar with the matter."
