As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain?

By performing a skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused.

Being blind to those gaps is the real miss.

Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully cultivate talent.

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, October 23rd. I'm Zoe Colkin 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 and what it sees as critical sectors of the economy.

According to people familiar with the matter, companies like IonQ, Raghetti 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 three quartersquarters 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.

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