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AT&T Expands D-Wave Partnership to Optimize Telecom Network Operations and Agentic AI
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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
AT&T has expanded its commercial agreement with D-Wave to integrate quantum annealing into network operations and agentic AI workflows, building on pilot results showing 60x speedup in optimization tasks. The deal covers outage detection, field technician routing, traffic management, and network planning, with future evaluation of gate-model quantum systems for security and communications.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Deep Tech: Telecom & Connectivity, and 4 sources have reported it between 27 Jul 2026 and 28 Jul 2026.
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Quantum optimization is moving from lab to live network operations at scale. If you build network automation, fault detection, or field dispatch tools, AT&T just proved your hardest computational problem—combinatorial routing at 60x classical speed—is now solvable with hardware you can access today.
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4 sources · first reported 27 Jul 2026 · latest 28 Jul 2026
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