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The prize, then, for the company that is first to build a reliable quantum computer at scale is potentially enormous. It will be “winner-takes-all”, as it was for classical computers and IBM, predicts Peronnin. And, he reckons, there is a fighting chance that his or another French company will be that winner.

Archie MitchellBusiness reporter Reuters Adverts for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned for making misleading claims about their green credentials. The UK’s advertising watchdog challenged the brands over the use of the word “sustainable” in paid-for Google ads which were not backed up by evidence of their sustainability. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) identified…

A joint amicus filing, a filing by parties with a strong interest in a case, also came from several groups, including the Chamber of Progress. The tech advocacy group, funded by and representing Google, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia and many other tech companies, said they shared concerns over the government punishing Anthropic for public speech.

A giant 1,600-tonne machine called Madeleine that will bore a tunnel taking HS2 trains into central London has been switched on. Named after Madeleine Nobbs, the former president of the Women’s Engineering Society, the 190m-long contraption will create a 4.5 mile link connecting Old Oak Common in west London to a proposed expanded station at…