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Economic shifts, geopolitical change In a world defined by disruption, what if leaders could turn uncertainty into advantage? Join SAP at the break to hear how organizations can stay resilient and stay ahead. Here's your morning TNB Tech minute for Thursday, October 23rd. I'm Zoe Culkin for the Wall Street Journal. We're exclusively reporting Several quantum computing companies are in talks to give the Commerce Department equity stakes in exchange for federal funding, a move that would mark another intervention by the Trump administration in what it sees as critical sectors of the economy, according to people familiar with the matter. Companies like IonQ, Rigetti Computing and D Wave Quantum are discussing the government becoming a shareholder in order to secure federal funding, a minimum of 10 million each set aside for promising tech companies. Quantum Computing and Atom Computing are also considering similar deals. Amazon has revealed a trio of new technologies that it's either testing or getting ready to deploy in its warehouses and delivery vans. They consist of a robot arm called Bluejay that can sort packages, an AI agent called Eluna designed to help managers deploy workers and avoid bottlenecks, and augmented reality glasses that delivery drivers will wear in the field. This is the latest initiative in a years long effort by Amazon to automate more of its warehouse tasks. Currently, about 3/4 of Amazon's deliveries are assisted by robots, according to the company, and China has released a five year plan that includes becoming more self sufficient technologically. That's according to the ruling Communist Party, which is signaling no intentions of stepping back and its intensifying rivalry with Washington. The economic plan looks to reduce China's reliance on the US and it nods at priorities that Western economists and US Officials have long called for, including boosting consumption in an attempt to lessen its reliance on export driven growth. That's your TMB Tech Minute. Join us again this afternoon for more. Uncertainty is inevitable, but it doesn't have to hold your business back. Here's Sebastian Steinhauser of SAP again on how companies can adapt to the unpredictable and thrive Technology is the greatest tool in your tool set to help you create that capability to train that muscle in your enterprise to adapt fast to change in the environment. And that's where customers are turning to SAP now to say hey SAP, you already run our most mission critical processes in our enterprise. Help us apply generative AI, agentic AI. Apply this disruptive technology to improve our agility when it comes to making fast decisions for our business in a very uncertain economic environment. Learn more about how SAP helps businesses conquer uncertainty@SAP.com uncertainty Custom Content from WSJ is a unit of the Wall Street Journal advertising department. The Wall Street Journal news Organization was not involved in the creation of this content.