The breakthrough, confirmed in Nature, pushes quantum computing from theory to real-world validation. Alphabet stock rose 1.8%, adding nearly $35 billion in market value, as investors priced in Google’s evolving quantum edge. Following Google’s latest breakthrough, quantum computing is starting to look a lot more like a business.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will supply up to 1 million of its specialised AI chips to Anthropic PBC, a deal worth tens of billions of dollars that deepens its partnership with the fast-growing artificial intelligence startup.

Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google were designated with so called strategic market status in the UK, exposing the US firm’s mobile ecosystems market to deeper scrutiny from the country’s antitrust watchdog.