May 23, 2025

Quantum Leaps, Corporate Chaos

1 hour 11 minutes

Welcome back to The FAIK Files!

In this week's episode:

Quantum computing is accelerating fast

Professors staffed a fake company entirely with AI agents (spoiler: chaos)

Microsoft is adding native AI agent support to Windows - what could go wrong?

The Chicago Sun-Times accidentally printed an AI-generated summer reading list with books that don't exist

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******* NOTES AND REFERENCES *******

Post-Quantum Cryptography:

D-Wave Launches Commercially Available Quantum Computer

NVIDIA Powers World's Largest Quantum Research Computer

NIST - What is Post-Quantum Cryptography

Microsoft Brings Post-Quantum Cryptography to Windows and Linux

First Successful Demonstration of Quantum Error Correction

Visualising Quantum Computation

AI Agent Company Disaster:

Research Paper - The Agent Company

The Agent Company Website

Futurism article

Yahoo Tech article

Business Insider coverage

Microsoft Adding MCP to Windows:

Microsoft Blog Post - Securing the Model Context Protocol

Reddit Discussion with Screenshots

Chicago Sun-Times AI Reading List Fail:

404 Media - AI-Generated Summer Reading List

404 Media Follow-up - Made by Hearst

******* THE BOILERPLATE *******

About The FAIK Files:

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By Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks

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