Telecommunications leader AT&T (NYSE: T) has signed a commercial agreement with D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) to expand its use of quantum annealing technology across its network infrastructure operations. Building on initial pilot benchmarks—where D-Wave’s quantum annealing hardware reduced a network optimization processing workload from one hour down to under 15 seconds—AT&T plans to integrate quantum optimization into its operational tooling, including its deployment of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Integrating Quantum Annealing into Agentic AI Workflows AT&T’s network management architecture increasingly relies on autonomous agentic AI tools to handle high-intensity operational tasks, such as outage detection, automated fault isolation, and [...]

Quantum advantage? Sure sounds like AT&T is getting it from a D-Wave partnership. Maybe not exactly quantum supremacy just yet, though ...

AT&T expands its quantum computing partnership with D-Wave, building on results that cut field-technician dispatch computation from one hour to