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Where can quantum computing be explored most effectively? Katie Pizzolato, Vice President, IBM Quantum Platform explains Personally, I'm most excited about the potential applications we don't know yet. It's very exciting to think about where we all sat at the dawn of classical computation and not to ever imagine where we are today. But we know that quantum computers are poised to accelerate time and cost efficiencies in really important fields like drug development, materials discovery, optimization, things that impact all industries. Here's your morning TNB Tech minute for Thursday, November 13th. I'm Zoe Culkin for the Wall Street Journal the European Union Commission has opened a new investigation into Alphabet's Google over how it ranks news publishers in search results. The commission said it's concerned that Google might be demoting certain publishers, websites and content in search results when they include content from third party commercial partners, potentially impeding publishers from making money online through third party content. The investigation is being opened under the Digital Markets act, companies can face fines of up to 10% of their annual worldwide turnover if the EU decides they are breaking the law. Google said in a blog post that its ranking related policy is essential to fight deceptive pay for play tactics. We are exclusively reporting Harbinger Motors has raised $160 million and secured an order from Transportation Gian FedEx as the company ramps up production of its medium duty electric vehicles. FedEx placed an initial order for 53 trucks as part of its investment and was one of the companies leading the Series C funding round, along with recreational vehicle manufacturer Thor Industries and asset management firm Capricorn Investment Group's Technology Impact Fund. Harbinger said it has raised $358 million since its founding in 2021 and declined to disclose its current valuation. And ending on another exclusive Cursor, a startup that makes an AI coding tool beloved by engineers, has raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation, nearly 12 times the value the company had in January. Cursor was co founded by four MIT graduates who are all still in their mid-20s. The company's investors now include Google and Nvidia. This is its third funding round this year, and it has rebuffed acquisition interest from a number of major AI companies, according to people familiar with the matter. That's your TNB Tech Minute. Join us again this afternoon for more. If you're waiting for your AI to turn into ROI and wondering how long you have to wait, maybe you need to do more than wait. Any business can use AI. IBM helps you use AI to change how you do business. Let's create smarter business. IBM.