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Quantum Can’t Do Much yet but Banks Can’t Afford to Wait

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By Scott Aaronson, Karen Webster
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By PYMNTS | February 17, 2026 | Here is the strange math confronting every bank, payment network and FinTech on the planet: Quantum computing is simultaneously overhyped and underestimated. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today.
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FOD#120: GRPO -> Why is everybody talking about it this weekend?

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By Scott Aaronson, Ksenia Se, Freek Witteveen
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This Week in Turing Post: Wednesday / AI 101 series: Reinforcement learning history and what’s happening now in the world of RL Friday / Interview with Akash Parvatikar, AI Scientist at HistoWiz Our news digest is always free. Upgrade to receive our deep dives in full, directly into your inbox. GRPO Weekend – what happened? It all started with a tweet. This reply by Aidan McLaughlin from OpenAI is now deleted.
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Computational Mysticism

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By Seymour Papert, Scott Aaronson, James Gleick, Douglas Hofstadter
Computational mysticism is the contemplation of the nature of computation and how it relates to the mystical, the poetic, and the conversational nature of reality and existence. What does it mean to compute? What is a computer? At first glance, these may seem like simple, perhaps even silly questions. But if you spend some more time reflecting more deeply on this term "computing", the whole chain of considerations and things it's connected to ends up getting pretty weird.
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