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Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil producer, is working with French startup Pasqal to find out if quantum computing can give it a boost in the energy sector. Pasqal, which develops neutral atom-based quantum computers, said on Wednesday it had agreed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Aramco in which the pair would …

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