Quantum Pill Weekly #073 - Latest breakthroughs in Quantum Computing, Hardware advancements, Innovations in Bioengineering and Robotics.
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💊 IBM: Fault‑tolerant quantum computer by 2029
💡Description: IBM has revealed plans for “Quantum Starling”, its first large‑scale, fault‑tolerant quantum supercomputer, expected to deploy by 2029 at its Poughkeepsie, NY facility.
💭Mental Meal: Utilizing 200 logical qubits enabled by advanced LDPC error‑correction codes, the system aims to execute 100 million quantum operations, approximately 20,000× current capability.
💊 Apple WWDC 2025
💡Description: Apple unveiled iOS 26, introducing a translucent, visually immersive “Liquid Glass” interface inspired by visionOS, alongside a suite of AI-enhanced tools integrated across core apps.
💭Mental Meal: Said enhanced tools include real‑time Phone call and FaceTime translation, smarter Messages with message filtering, polls, and Genmoji creation, call-screening powers, and a new centralized Games app, all powered by on‑device and Private Cloud Apple Intelligence.
💊 Shopify x Coinbase x Stripe
💡Description: Shopify is launching support for USDC stablecoin payments via partnerships with Coinbase and Stripe. Merchants on Shopify can now enable fast, low-fee, borderless transactions using the Base network, with automated fiat conversion or direct crypto payouts, with no foreign transaction costs.
💭Mental Meal: This integration marks a pivotal shift towards mainstream crypto adoption in e‑commerce, removing friction from global payments and empowering small businesses to transact seamlessly across borders.
💊 OpenAI o3 Pro
💡Description: OpenAI introduced o3‑Pro, the most advanced version of its reasoning model line. Equipped with tool access (web search, file analysis, visual reasoning, Python execution, and personalized memory) it significantly outperforms predecessors like o1‑Pro and o3 in science, education, programming, business, and writing tasks.
💭Mental Meal: Early testing shows expert preference for o3‑Pro in clarity, comprehensiveness, instruction-following, and accuracy, with top benchmark performance, including a strong showing on AIME 2024 and GPQA Diamond over competitors like Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4 Opus .
💊 Infrared-sensing retinal implants
💡Description: Researchers at Fudan University have developed a subretinal implant made of tellurium nanowire mesh that not only restores vision in blind mice but grants them near-infrared perception.
💭Mental Meal: This light-sensitive film stimulates the retina’s circuitry under safety thresholds, enabling mice (and even a primate) to detect infrared light alongside regular visuals.
💊 HP x Google: 3D conferencing
💡Description: HP has unveiled the HP Dimension, its first enterprise-grade hardware built using Google Beam, the 3D videoconferencing technology formerly known as Project Starline. The system features a 65-inch light‑field display, six high‑speed cameras, adaptive lighting, spatial audio, and no headgear needed.
💭Mental Meal: As Google opens Beam’s framework to third‑party partners, this technology could redefine enterprise communication, enabling more immersive team discussions in sectors like healthcare, education, and global business, all without AR/VR goggles.
💊 Google audio overviews
💡Description: Google is testing “Audio Overviews” on mobile Search (currently U.S. only, in English), enabling users to generate brief podcast‑style summaries of select queries.
💭Mental Meal: By tapping a “Generate Audio Overview” button below “People also ask,” two AI‑generated hosts deliver an engaging, conversational explanation while citing sources.
💊 Hydrogel turning air into water
💡Description: MIT researchers have created an origami-inspired hydrogel panel that passively captures humidity from the air and condenses it into clean drinking water. No electricity, batteries, solar panels, or filters needed.
💭Mental Meal: Tested in Death Valley, it produced up to 160 mL daily, even in extremely low humidity, using a smart design that swells to absorb moisture and shrinks to release it for condensation.
💊 Meta’s V‑JEPA 2: AI that thinks before it acts
💡Description: Meta has unveiled V‑JEPA 2, a 1.2‑billion‑parameter “world model” trained on over a million hours of raw video, enabling AI agents and robots to understand physical dynamics and predict outcomes in latent space rather than pixel‑by‑pixel.
💭Mental Meal: Robots using V‑JEPA 2 can perform zero‑shot planning tasks like reaching, grasping, and placing novel objects with up to 80% success. Alongside the model, Meta also released three benchmarks for testing physical reasoning from video data .
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