Wednesday, Nov 11, 2026

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Public daily update for Wednesday, Nov 11, 2026 (Veterans Day). 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 · Wednesday, November 11, 2026, morning (Pacific time).
Today: Veterans Day. We do not have any appointments on the calendar. A day for study, foundation paperwork and the daily research review.

2. Log and chat log highlights

We are still waiting to hear back on last week's community grant application and introduction letters; the grant committee meets tomorrow. Items are added here as the day goes on.

3. News

Science & Tech

AI-designed quantum circuits use fewer resources. Harvard, Anthropic and QuEra report that circuits designed with a language model cut a combined gate-and-qubit measure by up to 39 times for some algorithm building blocks; these are resource estimates from a preprint, not runs on hardware. Source: PR Newswire (QuEra), Nov 10, 2026
Google researchers use AI and mathematical proofs to lower quantum computing costs. Google DeepMind and Google Quantum AI report roughly elevenfold lower resource costs for a fusion-related simulation and eightfold for a photochemistry calculation. Source: The Quantum Insider, Nov 10, 2026
Supercomputer and quantum processor work together on a chemistry problem. Quantinuum and RIKEN linked the Fugaku supercomputer with the Reimei trapped-ion processor to estimate excited-state energies of a retinal molecule, within 0.03 eV of exact benchmarks. Source: Quantum Computing Report, Nov 10, 2026

Politics

We did not review any political items this morning.

4. Government news review

We did not review any government items this morning.

5. General news of interest

"Why are we conscious?" A Nature spotlight surveys current theories and notes the shift toward seeing consciousness as a continuum rather than an on-off state. Source: Nature, Nov 4, 2026