After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.
The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.
In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.
Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform.
🚨 Quantum Breakthrough Alert 🚨
IonQ advances quantum networks with ultrafast mixed-species gates. Faster, more robust, and scalable, this breakthrough removes a major bottleneck for quantum modular systems.
1/ 🌐 IonQ's strategy focuses on modular quantum systems where Quantum Processing Nodes are linked by photonic connections to enable quantum systems to scale. However, a fundamental bottleneck has held this vision back. The speed and fidelity of entangling gates between qubits of different ion species remain critical challenges.
Without fast and reliable gates, the quantum information exchanged between nodes degrades quickly. This limits the scale and power of quantum networks.
2/ 🐢 Existing approaches to mixed-species gates operate at slow speeds between 10 and 100 kHz. These operations take too long, leading to decoherence and a loss of coherence in photonic-connected qubits that introduce errors. For quantum networks to function efficiently, gates need to operate much faster while maintaining accuracy.
3/ 🚀 Working alongside researchers at the Australian National University, IonQ has developed ultrafast mixed-species quantum gates using pulsed lasers. These gates operate at sub-microsecond speeds, reaching the MHz range. They maintain high fidelity with errors lower than 0.1 percent while also showing resilience against heating, timing noise, and stray fields.
This achievement is more than incremental progress. It is a foundational technology that will drive the next generation of quantum systems.
4/ 🔑 In trapped-ion systems, different ions serve specialized roles. Network qubits connect to photonic systems and operate quickly but are prone to rapid decoherence. Memory qubits are long-lived and ideal for storing quantum information. Fast and high-fidelity gates enable quantum information to transfer quickly and reliably between network and memory qubits. This capability is essential for building scalable quantum networks.
5/ 🎯 Consider a swap gate, which exchanges quantum information between 133Ba as the memory qubit and 138Ba as the network qubit. IonQ's new technology completes this operation in 2.4 microseconds with a decoherence error of only 0.06 percent.
For comparison, older spectroscopic gates take more than 50 microseconds to complete and introduce errors exceeding 1 to 4 percent. IonQ's solution is not just faster. It reduces errors by orders of magnitude.
6/ 📈 IonQ is delivering foundational advancements that make quantum networks both practical and scalable. High-speed and high-fidelity gates solve one of the most pressing challenges for distributed quantum systems. Faster gates allow faster networking. Faster networking enables quantum hardware to scale to levels previously out of reach.
This progress eliminates the technical barriers that have slowed the evolution of modular quantum systems.
7/ 🏆 IonQ's trapped-ion systems already lead the industry in fidelity. With the introduction of MHz-speed mixed-species gates, IonQ is now addressing the next major challenge. High-speed and scalable inter-node communication is critical for building modular quantum systems. By solving this problem, IonQ strengthens its position as a leader in quantum networking and foundational quantum infrastructure.
8/ 🔮 Quantum networks are essential for scaling quantum computing beyond monolithic systems. IonQ's new gates achieve two critical goals. They protect against decoherence to ensure quantum information remains intact while operating at unprecedented speeds. This combination removes significant barriers to distributed quantum systems and paves the way for modular and scalable quantum computing.
9/ 🛤️ This breakthrough aligns perfectly with IonQ's strategy. Faster gates enable faster networking. Faster networking allows modular scaling of quantum systems. This capability drives exponential growth in computing power and delivers on the promise of scalable quantum systems. IonQ is building the foundational technology that will power the next phase of quantum computing.
Full research here: https://t.co/IY7W3mJEpA
I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!
JUST IN: Michael Saylor says replacing SEC Chair Gary Gensler is "incredibly bullish for digital assets."
"It's very good for the crypto industry. We're going to see a lot more pro-#Bitcoin policies."
DOGE will soon begin crowdsourcing examples of government waste, fraud, & and abuse. Americans voted for drastic government reform & they deserve to be part of fixing it.
I present to you my new creature pet thing, gloop
Thank you everyone for the name suggestions
gloop will be living with me and I will not be charging him rent
I would like to wish our great Bitcoiners a Happy 16th Anniversary of Satoshi’s White Paper. We will end Kamala’s war on crypto, & Bitcoin will be MADE IN THE USA! VOTE TRUMP! #Bitcoin#FreeRossDayOne
@9mmsmg I would say that it is immoral to take by force, but best way would to use the market/freedom of association. Nobody will sell him food, clothing, or shelter etc. Ultimately cannot live without some level of interaction with society and would hopefully change their mind.
Shut down the entitlement state & you solve most of the immigration problem right there. We need to man up & fix the root cause that draws migrants here in the first place: the welfare state. But no one seems to want to say that part out loud, because too many native-born Americans are addicted to it themselves.