Microsoft’s Azure Quantum team, using AI and supercomputing, identified 540,000 stable battery material candidates in under a week—a task that would take decades via traditional methods. Technical Insight: A generative AI model trained on the Materials Project database predicted novel lithium-ion alternatives.…

IBM and MIT researchers unveiled a quantum algorithm optimized by AI, achieving a 100x speedup in solving complex optimization problems like protein folding. The AI trains quantum circuits to minimize errors caused by quantum noise, a persistent hurdle in practical quantum computing.…