🤖 Google’s “Willow” Quantum Chip: A New Era of Computing

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🧠Google’s “Willow” Quantum Chip: A New Era of Computing

• 🎄Third Day of “12 Days of OpenAI” Event

• 🧟‍♂️Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Voice Actors Quit Over AI Concerns

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• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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GOOGLE RESEARCH

🧠Google’s “Willow” Quantum Chip: A New Era of Computing

Researchers at Google unveiled “Willow,” a Quantum Computing chip that handles complex calculations and exponentially corrects computing errors faster than traditional computers.

Key Details:

• A Quantum is the smallest discrete unit of a phenomenon. For example, a quantum of light is a photon, and a quantum of electricity is an electron.

• While traditional computers use “bits” (i.e., 0 or 1) to process information, Quantum Computing uses “qubits,” which can be 0 or 1, or both at the same time.

• While traditional computers process information sequentially (i.e., one at a time), Quantum Computing processes information in parallel (i.e., multiple at a time).

• “Willow” can reduce computing errors exponentially as more “qubits” are added, a critical issue that stumped everyone for three decades.

• “Willow” leverages 105 “qubits” to maintain The Quantum State for nearly twice as long as previous designs.

• The Quantum State is when a “qubit” has the potential to be either 0 or 1, but it’s not definitively one or the other until it’s measured.

Why It’s Important:

• “Willow” can perform a complex computing task in 5 minutes that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years to complete.

• To put this into perspective, the universe’s age is estimated to be around 13.8 billion years, a mere fraction of a septillion years.

OPENAI

🎄Third Day of “12 Days of OpenAI” Event

OpenAI launched Sora, a text-to-video AI model that converts text prompts into hyperrealistic short films, during the third day of the “12 Days of OpenAI” event.

Key Details:

• The “12 Days of OpenAI” event involves 12 livestreams across 12 days of “a bunch of new things, big and small.”

• Sora can create videos in various formats, generate new content from text, or enhance, remix, and blend your own media files.

• In other words, Sora brings your imagination to life with text, image, or video.

• The new Remix feature allows you to replace, remove, or reimagine elements in your video after it’s generated.

• The new Storyboard feature enables you to stitch multiple outputs together with Blend (i.e., combine two videos into one seamless clip), Loop (i.e., create seamless repeating videos), or Style (i.e., apply a specific theme).

• It’s available for ChatGPT Plus plans and ChatGPT Pro plans, with Sora’s rollout excluded in European countries over regulatory concerns.

Why It’s Important:

• “We obviously have a big target on our back as OpenAI,” said Sora Product Lead Rohan Sahai. “We want to prevent illegal activity but also balance that with creative expression.”

• MKBHD noticed that Sora struggled with Object Permanence, or displaying a specific object in an individual’s hand.

🚨Watch Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) review Sora here.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI STRIKES

🧟‍♂️Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Voice Actors Quit Over AI Concerns

Almost all the voice actors associated with the highly popular Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies have quit over a lack of AI protections in their contracts and the use of their voices to train AI models without consent or compensation.

A Redditor called Zekethevoice, who’s presumably the voice actor behind Dr. William Peck, replied to fans across Subreddits who noticed the character’s slightly altered voice: “It sucks because they don’t attribute the voice to AI, so now everyone thinks I did that sh**tty performance.”

AI voices significantly reduce production costs by eliminating the need for studios, human voice actors, and post-production expenses (e.g., adjusting sound levels or removing background noise).

The voice actors want to require Activision to acquire consent from them before replicating their voices and allow them to decline the continuous use of their voices in future projects.

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💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Tractian lands a $120M Series C to eliminate industrial downtime worldwide.

• Element451 announces a $175M Strategic Investment to build an AI-based student engagement platform.

• Dimension raises a $500M Second Fund to invest in AI-enabled tools that advance the scientific study of life.

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• MFS (Boston, MA): Quant Research Associate Intern, Summer 2025

• ATLASSIAN (San Francisco, CA): AI Research Intern, Summer 2025

• Aurora (Mountain View, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Quality Tooling, Summer 2025

• NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Developer Technology Intern, High-Performance Databases, Summer 2025

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