The industrial world has a legacy problem. Factories and energy plants across the globe still depend on hardware-locked control systems built for a previous era: expensive to update, resistant to adaptation, and essentially incompatible with the artificial intelligence tools now reshaping every other corner of the economy.
Microsoft
A silent shift in the global tech community often emerges with little fanfare, yet it can have extraordinary implications. Over the last few weeks, a ripple of curiosity has passed through academic halls and corporate R&D hubs, sparked by an unlikely pair of developments on seemingly distant fronts. Microsoft’s unveiling of Majorana 1, a quantum processor built on a Topological Core to possibly accommodate a million qubits, captured headlines for its promise of cracking intractable problems.
