AT&T Expands D-Wave Partnership to Optimize Telecom Network Operations and Agentic AI

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.

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