QBTS Stock Soars As AT&T Expands D-Wave Quantum Partnership After 240X Speed Boost

AT&T expanded its partnership with D-Wave Quantum to deploy annealing quantum computing across network operations after achieving a 240x speed improvement in processing time for network optimization workloads. The telecom giant plans to roll out the technology to outage detection, technician routing, network planning and traffic management, whilst evaluating D-Wave's gate-model systems for quantum security and communications.

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