{"id":946173,"date":"2025-07-14T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946173"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:15:25","slug":"warren-buffetts-hidden-quantum-play-berkshire-hathaways-bet-on-alphabet-and-microsofts-next-big-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/14\/warren-buffetts-hidden-quantum-play-berkshire-hathaways-bet-on-alphabet-and-microsofts-next-big-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett\u2019s hidden quantum play: Berkshire Hathaway\u2019s bet on Alphabet and Microsoft\u2019s next big frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett may have built his legacy backing railroads, banks, and consumer giants, but buried in a lesser-known corner of Berkshire Hathaway\u2019s empire lies an unexpected wager on the bleeding edge of technology: quantum computing. Through a quiet $616 million portfolio managed by a subsidiary investment firm, Buffett is indirectly betting on Alphabet and Microsoft, two tech titans investing heavily in quantum breakthroughs that could redefine computing, accelerate AI, and reshape entire industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett may have built his legacy backing railroads, banks, and consumer giants, but buried in a lesser-known corner of Berkshire Hathaway\u2019s empire lies an unexpected wager on the bleeding edge of technology: quantum computing. Through a quiet $616 million portfolio managed by a subsidiary investment firm, Buffett is indirectly betting on Alphabet and Microsoft, two tech titans investing heavily in quantum breakthroughs that could redefine computing, accelerate AI, and reshape entire industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}