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WSJ
As the Trump administration announced new executive orders and whole-of-government efforts in quantum, The Wall Street Journal toured the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago. The story highlighted more than $5 billion in planned spending and 1,000 full-time jobs committed by businesses coming to the park. It also discussed the potential economic impact for the neighboring community, which has struggled since the decline of the American steel industry in the 1980s, including a locally owned bakery already offering “quantum donuts” near the site.
This article ran in the Wall Street Journal.
Construction underway at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park. Image from the Wall Street Journal/Jim Vondruska.
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Supply chain
An essay in The Economist also reflected on this week’s quantum-related executive orders. Former special assistant to President Biden Joshua Zoffer and Tufts historian Chris Miller described US efforts to “avoid the mistakes America has made in other sectors,” especially those surrounding supply-chain risk.
More Majorana 2
After an initial round of back-and-forth in news articles, University of St. Andrews’ Henry Legg provided a full critique of Microsoft’s recent Majorana 2 paper and announcement. Published in Nature, it detailed questions about the company’s topological gap detection protocol. Nature also published a rebuttal from Microsoft.
Read Legg’s article in Nature. Read Microsoft Quantum’s reply.
The Register covered the dust-up this week, as well.
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