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 ...

There is a number buried in a Google research paper from late 2024 that raised the ceiling on what computers can do. A benchmark calculation completed by Google’s Willow quantum chip in roughly five ...

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 ...

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 ...