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Volume 342, Issue 3 · 8 articles from 2 issues

In This Issue

• IBM Announces Availability of Its Nighthawk r2 Quantum Processor
• IBM Quantum Computer Solves Classically Intractable Problem in 15 Minutes
• LLM Watermarks Will Be Everywhere Soon. Here's What You Need to Know.
• NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model Goes Open Source with a 2M-Tile Dataset and 22% Lower Ice-Mapping Error
• AI Slowdown Calls Put Software Flaws in Focus
• Why Recursive Self-Improvement Suddenly Became a Serious Question
• US Schools Are Banning AI or Ignoring Rampant Misuse. This AI-Themed High School Found a Better Way.
• What It Would Take to Slow Frontier AI

IBM Announces Availability of Its Nighthawk r2 Quantum Processor (DCD, Monday, September 7th, 2026)

IBM makes its Nighthawk r2 quantum processor broadly available via the cloud, claiming better quality and speed than r1. Read more

IBM Quantum Computer Solves Classically Intractable Problem in 15 Minutes (ScienceDaily, Monday, September 7th, 2026)

IBM and UChicago used 70 logical qubits to run a verifiable computation beyond classical reach in about 15 minutes. Read more

LLM Watermarks Will Be Everywhere Soon. Here's What You Need to Know. (IBM, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026)

IBM explains how LLM watermarking works, where it is being mandated, and the limits of current detection schemes. Read more

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model Goes Open Source with a 2M-Tile Dataset and 22% Lower Ice-Mapping Error (StorageReview, Monday, September 14th, 2026)

StorageReview reports IBM and NASA open-sourced a lunar foundation model trained on two million tiles from nine instruments. Read more

AI Slowdown Calls Put Software Flaws in Focus (IBM, Monday, September 14th, 2026)

IBM Think reports that arguments for slowing frontier AI are sharpening attention on software defects in AI systems. Read more

Why Recursive Self-Improvement Suddenly Became a Serious Question (IBM, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026)

IBM looks at why AI systems improving their own successors moved from thought experiment to near-term research concern. Read more

US Schools Are Banning AI or Ignoring Rampant Misuse. This AI-Themed High School Found a Better Way. (IBM, Thursday, September 17th, 2026)

IBM profiles Seckinger High School, where AI is taught across the curriculum instead of banned or ignored. Read more

What It Would Take to Slow Frontier AI (IBM, Thursday, September 17th, 2026)

IBM examines the practical mechanics and obstacles of any serious attempt to slow frontier AI development. Read more

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