This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome Brandon Wykert. He is national security editor for the national interest as well as a fellow, a senior fellow at the center for national interest, as well as a colonist at Popular Mechanics,

and I go to Brandon to guide me through a new race between geopolitical rivals.

It is not artificial intelligence. It's well beyond that. It's called quantum computing.

Brandon, a very good evening to you. Quantum computing requires constant updating to understand this language.

The understanding I have, and I lay it out in front of you so that you can correct me,

is what we're looking for is a faster computing power.

And one way to achieve that is to put together something called a cubit, lots of cubits.

And those cubits are capable of doing calculations much faster than the superconductor,

than the semiconductor computer I have in front of me.

And there's a reason for that.

So we come to the news of the moment.

Microsoft says it has created a new state of matter to power quantum computers.

This is the New York Times reporting.

Microsoft says means there's hesitation.

There is a contest between Microsoft and Google.

We believe there are other players. We don't have a name for the People's Republic of China.

We do know that Brendan and I discussed last week an assertion in Nature magazine from a lab, the

Clarendon Lab at Oxford, where they had achieved

communication between events, modules that suggests quantum computing was successful.

However, Brandon, there is a hesitation in the New York Times headline. Why? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. And thanks again for having me. I suspect the hesitation is because the reporters

don't quite understand what they're talking about. And to be fair, I write about this stuff all the time. I talk to people in the

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