Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years

Matthew Green / @matthewdgreen: I think this is a good precautionary analysis but I'd bet huge amounts of money against a relevant quantum computer by 2029 or even 2035. [embedded post] And the posts, they keep on coming. -- I hundred percent agree with @filippo here, the question is not whether we're certain that a quantum computer exists by 2029, it's whether we're certain that one doesn't exist. And things have progressed far enough that non-physicists, or even physicists working in different subfields, can no longer reliably tell what's going on. ...