3 days JPMorgan Just Beat Big Tech to a Quantum Breakthrough Observer

Lava lamps, lottery balls and mouse cursors have long stood in for real-world randomness. Now JPMorgan Chase, with a 56-qubit machine and a theoretical physicist, has demonstrated a quantum leap: randomness, certified. It’s a milestone for quantum computing—and possibly the first thing it’s done that even a skeptic can’t call useless.