Good morning. International Business Machines said Tuesday it has a plan for building what it calls the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer at its New York data center before the end of the decade.

“We are putting error-correction in detail on our roadmap because we believe now we’ve solved all the scientific challenges,” Jay Gambetta, IBM’s vice president of quantum, told the WSJ's Belle Lin.

Gambetta said IBM’s confidence in its 2029 timeline stems from two recent developments: further advances in a new approach to reducing errors called “quantum low-density parity check” or qLDPC codes, plus a technique for identifying and correcting errors in real-time using conventional computing.

The computer, called IBM Quantum Starling, will be housed in its Poughkeepsie, N.Y., center and have 20,000 times the computational power of today’s quantum computers, the tech giant said.

Tech giants Microsoft and Google and quantum companies  D-Wave, Quantinuum and IonQ also are pursuing a fault-tolerant computer by the end of the decade. Read the story.

LVMH said AI and agents will be key to navigating a broad slowdown and waning consumer demand in the luxury goods segment, the WSJ’s Isabelle Bousquette reports.

Over the past four years, the luxury goods conglomerate, whose brands include Tiffany, Dior and Celine, has worked with Google Cloud to build a central data platform. It’s now applying predictive AI, generative AI and agents in areas like supply chain planning and product design.

For example, at Tiffany, most sales advisers now have access to agents that can summarize every previous interaction with customers and use the information to generate a personalized message to them.

Apple released a host of features and designs in its software ecosystem on Monday, including a “Foundation Models framework,” or tools that will allow app makers to use Apple’s AI models on its devices. “This will ignite a whole new wave of intelligence” in apps, said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering.

Apple also released new live translation capabilities that work in phone calls, messages and FaceTime and introduced a broad visual redesign of its signature operating systems.

But overall it was far from the AI comeback many were hoping for, WSJ reports, and likely not enough to excite developers, some of whom made their ambivalence about the Apple’s AI lineup to the WSJ’s Isabelle Bousquette in the leadup to the event.

The New York Times reports that Meta Platforms has tapped Alexandr Wang, CEO of AI startup ScaleAI, to join a new research lab targeting 'superintelligence,' an industry term for an AI that can outsmart experts in nearly every field. Bloomberg earlier reported that Meta was in talks for a multibillion dollar investment in ScaleAI.

News sites are getting crushed by Google’s new AI tools, WSJ reports. Google’s introduction last year of AI Overviews, which summarize search results at the top of the page, dented traffic to features like vacation guides and health tips, as well as to product review sites. Its U.S. rollout last month of AI Mode, an effort to compete directly with the likes of ChatGPT, is expected to deliver a stronger blow. 

The tech industry is fighting to save clean-energy subsidies in the tax-and-spending bill working its way through Congress, WSJ reports. The Data Center Coalition, a group that includes Microsoft, Google, Amazon.com and Meta Platforms, is asking Republican senators to preserve tax credits and loan funding that would be phased out in the version of the bill passed by the House of Representatives last month.

Frank Bisignano, the new head of the Social Security Administration said his private-sector experience will help him execute a tech-focused overhaul focused on making the agency a ‘digital-first organization.’ Bisignano, who served years as chief executive officer of payment processing giant Fiserv, tells the WSJ he plans to deploy DOGE staffers to revamp customer service to rely more heavily on technology and AI. 

Swedish 'vibe coding' startup Lovable has talked with investors about raising at least $100 million at a valuation of $1.5 billion or higher, Bloomberg reports. 

Roughly 700 Marines are deploying to the Los Angeles area in the wake of protests over immigration that have already led President Trump to federalize National Guard troops, the U.S. military said Monday. (WSJ)

After days of unrest in Los Angeles over President Trump’s immigration policies, protests spread to San Francisco, testing the resolve of the city’s new moderate mayor. (WSJ)

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all the members of a key committee that recommends vaccines, and when and how often adults and children should get them. (WSJ)

Sly Stone, the boundary-breaking, fashion-forward leader of Sly & the Family Stone, has died. He was age 82. (WSJ)

The WSJ CIO Journal Team is Steven Rosenbush, Isabelle Bousquette and Belle Lin.

The editor, Tom Loftus, can be reached at thomas.loftus@wsj.com.