Ahead of the organization’s big Mark Twain Prize ceremony, A-listers and working artists are struggling to make the right call.

The president, who recently took over Washington’s major performing arts center, reportedly said that he had not been encouraged to develop his musical talents.

The chipmaker NVIDIA held its annual conference in Silicon Valley this week. Among the major announcements: it chose Boston to be the site of its first-ever research center for quantum computing, opening later this year.

The tech giant is collaborating with prominent quantum computing companies and academia to solve some of quantum computing’s most complex challenges at the new Accelerated Quantum Research Center in Boston.

Nvidia (NVDA) is partnering with quantum computing companies Quantinuum, QuEra Computing, and more to build a Boston-based research center that will integrate quantum computing with AI supercomputers.