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Google cut the qubits needed to break crypto encryption by 20x and withheld the circuits. Here's why that matters.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Saturday revealed further details of a deal reached between the U.S. and China over control of the popular social media platform TikTok, sharing that ...