David Sacks says if Jensen was ousted for wanting to sell chips to China, it was “the stupidest, most moot hill to die on”
“They’re trying to indigenize chip production. They think it’s a critical industry, in the same way that we’re trying to get rare earths out of their clutches and get our own rare earth supply. They’re trying to create their own chip supply.”
“They’re trying to scale up domestic chip manufacturers, and they’re willing to endure some short-term pain in their ecosystem to prop up Huawei, to force all of their local companies, their developers, to try and use Huawei. And if you look at recent press, the latest DeepSeek model is being trained exclusively on Huawei chips.”
“There’s a big disconnect here, where I think the China hawks in DC think that the Chinese government is begging for their chips, and the truth is that they would love to keep the chips out too, which is why I say, again, the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.”
“The China hawks don’t want the chips sold. The Chinese government doesn’t want the chips sold. So just forget about it. Stop selling them.”
“This is the crazy thing: if Jensen was taken out because he wanted to sell chips to China, it was the stupidest, most moot hill to die on, because China’s not taking those chips anyway.”
NEW - Anduril is quietly hiring quantum engineers to put quantum computing into its defense systems.
The role is Quantum Software Engineer, based in Washington, DC, inside a group called Anduril Labs.
The job is to build quantum algorithms for “real-world defense and national security challenges” and integrate them into “existing and new defense systems.”
It covers three kinds of machines: quantum-inspired, quantum annealing, and gate-based quantum computers.
Applicants must be eligible for a Top Secret/SCI clearance. Base pay is listed at 132,000 to 198,000 dollars.
Anduril has done this once in public. In January it tested quantum hybrid missile defense planning with D-Wave and Davidson Technologies. In a simulated a 500 missile attack, it stopped 45 to 60 more missiles and ran at least 10 times faster.
This summer, they signed an agreement with IonQ to advance quantum technologies for defense and national security.
Now it’s hiring to do that work in-house.
The company building America’s autonomous weapons wants quantum inside them.
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■ 양자컴퓨터 기업들의 본격적인 옥석 가리기: 선도 그룹과 후발 주자의 격차 확대
(가을바람월드)
① 후발 주자(디웨이브·리게티)의 부진과 격차 심화
디웨이브(D-Wave): 매출 자체는 예상치를 소폭 상회했으나, 수주 잔고 부진과 용역 위주 매출 전환으로 마진이 하락(70%→50%)하고 현금이 빠르게 소진되며 주가 하락세 기록
리게티(Rigetti): 이번 분기 장비 판매 0대, 매출 예상치 대폭 미달에 이어 핵심 컴퓨터 출시 일정이 1년 이상 지연되며 최악의 이중 실망을 안김
실적과 숫자로 증명하는 선도 그룹(IonQ·퀀티넘)과의 격차가 실물 지표에서 확연히 벌어지는 중
② 미국 양자 패권 위원회 참여와 중국의 추격
에릭 슈미트 기반 싱크탱크의 '미국 양자 패권 위원회'에 IonQ CEO 니콜로 데마시가 주요 위원으로 참여
미국이 기초 연구에서 우위에 있으나, 중국이 3배에 달하는 예산(30억 달러)과 제조 인프라로 공격적으로 추격하고 있어 정부 차원의 실사용 지원 필요성 대두
③ 퀀티넘(Quntinuum)의 일본 연합 진출
일본 국립연구소 라이켄(RIKEN), 소프트뱅크와의 파트너십을 통해 H2 양자 칩 업그레이드 및 하이브리드 슈퍼컴퓨팅 상용화를 추진하며 주가 급등
④ AI와 양자의 융합 가속화
앤트로픽(Claude)과 구글 등의 AI 기술이 양자 회로 설계에 필요한 자원 요구량을 대폭 줄여주며 양자 개발의 강력한 가속기 역할 수행
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CLAUDE JUST SOLVED TWO OPEN PROBLEMS IN QUANTUM GRAVITY
Quantum gravity is the biggest unsolved problem in physics: making quantum mechanics work with Einstein’s gravity. Black holes are where the two collide.
In 1983, Stephen Hawking and Don Page showed that as certain model universes heat up, black holes don’t form gradually. They appear suddenly, like water flashing into steam.
Their proof only worked for large universes. In 2003, physicists laid out the quantum calculation needed to check small ones. Nobody finished it for 23 years. The math was too brutal.
Anthropic says its newest Claude model, Fable 5.2, just did it, “working largely autonomously.” Black holes appear suddenly in small universes too.
It also pinned down the exact limit of a technique physicists have used for 15 years to rule out candidate theories of quantum gravity.
Why quantum people should care: this is the same physics that connects black holes to quantum error correction, the thing every quantum computer needs to scale. In 2022, Google even used its quantum processor to simulate a tiny wormhole model.
AI is now doing original work in quantum physics. The field that builds quantum computers is about to move faster.
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