Google is opening access to its next-generation Willow quantum processor. The hyperscaler’s "Willow Early Access Program" will give select research partners exclusive use of its hardware, which is ...

Quantum computing has long lived in the realm of lab demos and bold PowerPoint slides, but two of the industry’s biggest players now say the first truly useful machines are less than five years away.

In October 2025, there was a groundbreaking scientific breakthrough that might have passed you by. Google claimed its Willow quantum chip ran a task that would take today's best classical ...

Google published a paper on March 31 that states that Bitcoin's cryptography could be impacted by quantum computing sooner ...

Alphabet (GOOG) unveiled its Willow quantum processor a while back. CEO Sundar Pichai compared quantum computing’s current phase to where AI was five years ago. IonQ trades at a $17B valuation but ...

The crypto industry's reaction was that a quantum computing threat was still distant when Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip in December 2024. Bitcoin uses SHA-256 for mining and ECDSA for ...

2025 will go down as the year quantum computing stocks went mainstream. The sector was virtually unheard of through much of 2024, but a milestone achievement by Google with its Willow quantum chip in ...