Tuesday, Nov 10, 2026

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Public daily update for Tuesday, Nov 10, 2026. Our focus stays on the least well-off person on the street: every item below is read with him in mind.

1. Morning meeting

Orientation: Olympia, Washington, USA · planet Earth · the Milky Way galaxy · Tuesday, November 10, 2026, morning (Pacific time).
Today: no appointments on the calendar. A day for study, foundation paperwork and the daily research review. Tomorrow, Wednesday Nov 11, is Veterans Day.

Yesterday the foundation sent a small community grant application and several introduction letters to local partners; we are now waiting to hear back. Items are added here as the day goes on.

Five silicon spin qubits controlled in parallel at about 99.9% fidelity. RIKEN researchers ran five qubits through one shared microwave line and found a way to correct a key source of error; published in Nature Physics. Source: RIKEN Sciverse, Nov 9, 2026
A single molecule works as a qubit connected by light. A team at NVision and Ulm University designed a carbene molecule that can be read out and linked with light, a possible new route for quantum hardware. Source: Chemistry World, Nov 9, 2026
AMD and IQM split a chemistry problem between a quantum computer and GPUs. A small, reproducible demonstration on hydrogen; the authors say plainly it does not show quantum advantage. Source: IQM blog, Nov 9, 2026

"Could consciousness begin deep in the brain?" A hypothesis paper in The Neuroscientist argues that the basic capacity to feel starts in brainstem circuitry, not only in the cortex. Source: Medical Xpress (Hebrew University), Nov 2, 2026