Quantum computing firm Rigetti Computing has secured an $8.4 million purchase order to deliver a 108-qubit quantum computer to India, marking a major step in the country’s push toward advanced computing technologies.

Google has introduced a groundbreaking new chip, claiming it can solve a problem in five minutes that would take the world’s fastest supercomputers ten septillion years – a timespan of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

Quantum computing's combination with artificial intelligence (AI) promises a shift in computational speed, but it will also bring new threats in terms of cybersecurity, privacy and other potential damages, S&P Global said Tuesday.