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 ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path for useful applications of quantum technology within five years.

Shares of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) are rising Wednesday. The company said it reached a landmark with one of its computing algorithms that will have implications on artificial intelligence.

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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.

Google said on Tuesday it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence data centre in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, its biggest ever investment in the world's most populous nation.

What does Google do with all the information it collects from us as we use its search? Nothing good according to the world’s leading Google critic Scott Cleland. Cleland is the author of Search and Destroy, a new book that warns against the power and ...