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Quantinuum's 279% Number, and the $597M Loss Underneath It
Quantinuum's first earnings report as a public company pairs a 279% revenue jump against a $597M GAAP loss, alongside a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructur
Four Atoms, One Chip: Pasqal's Bid to Fix Quantum's Scaling Wall
Pasqal says it trapped rubidium atoms using laser light routed entirely through a photonic chip, a possible fix for neutral-atom computing's free-spac
Congress Eyes $567 Million Quantum Defense Bump
Congress is moving to raise military quantum spending 68% to $567 million, with the same firms benefiting from doubled lobbying and political ties to
Uncloneable Encryption Grows Up: From One Bit to Real Messages
This Sunday's think piece takes on quantum cryptography's strangest promise: uncloneable encryption, which uses the no-cloning theorem to make copying
Weekly Recap: Quantum's Advantage Claim and a $1.8 Billion Bet
The week that was: IBM stakes a claim to a quantum 'advantage era' as critics question the framing, IonQ and D-Wave post record bookings alongside rec
Did Amazon Just Find a Crack in Post-Quantum Crypto?
An AWS cryptographer's preliminary quantum algorithm takes aim at the lattice math behind post-quantum encryption, while IonQ's earnings spook investo
Microsoft's Quantum Chief Doesn't Care Who Doubts Him
IonQ posts a record quarter and raises guidance, D-Wave claims a tenfold path to lower quantum error rates, NIST sends entangled photons across ordina
IonQ's Third MOU in Five Days: Moat or Marketing?
IonQ signs its third government-and-industry MOU in five days, this time with Sandia National Laboratories, prompting a hard look at whether the patte
Oratomic's $300M Bet: Do 10,000 Qubits Beat Millions?
Caltech and the neutral-atom startup Oratomic unveiled new 'mitten' quantum error-correction codes today, reigniting the debate over whether cryptogra
China's Quantum Standards Play Meets the West's Chokepoint Strategy
Two co-leads on the same quantum geopolitics fight: China stands up a national quantum standards committee modeled on its 5G playbook, while a new IIS
The Werner-State Race: AI, Humans, and One Open Problem
Three independent teams solved a famous twenty-year-old open problem in quantum information theory — the two-copy distillability of Werner states — wi
Weekly Recap: Does IBM's Advantage Claim Actually Hold Up?
The weekly recap: IBM and the University of Chicago claim a verified quantum advantage while longtime skeptic Gil Kalai makes his case for why noise c
IBM's Quantum Advantage Papers Face the Trust Test
IBM and a coalition of research partners published three peer-reviewed papers claiming 'trusted' quantum advantage — with open circuits for anyone to
IBM's Triple Quantum Advantage Claim Faces the Tracker
IBM rolls out three coordinated quantum advantage demonstrations — with Algorithmiq, the University of Chicago, and Qedma — and opens them to public,
HRL's 18-Qubit Chip Corrects Its Own Errors
HRL Laboratories published a Nature paper showing an 18-qubit silicon processor that ran error correction entirely on its own, using a cryogenic contr
AT&T's Quantum Speedup: One Hour to Fifteen Seconds
AT&T expands its commercial deal with D-Wave after quantum annealing hardware reportedly cut a network optimization workload from an hour to under fif
Multiverse's $570M Round: Quantum Cred or AI Hype?
Multiverse Computing just closed one of the biggest funding rounds ever for a company with 'quantum' in its story — $570 million at a $1.7 billion pre
Who Owns a Quantum Algorithm?
This Sunday's think piece asks a question the IBM-HRL headlines skipped: can you actually patent a quantum algorithm? We trace the acquisition's eleve
Weekly Recap: IBM's Crash Meets Its Quantum Gambit
This week's recap: IBM's historic stock crash collides with its biggest quantum acquisition in years, DARPA and DOE keep funding unproven architecture
IBM's Second Qubit Bet: Buying HRL Labs
IBM makes its biggest quantum strategy shift in years, acquiring Boeing and GM's HRL Laboratories to run silicon spin qubits alongside its superconduc
IBM's $10B Quantum Bet Adds HRL Labs
IBM adds Boeing and GM's spin-qubit lab HRL Laboratories to its quantum arsenal, a move that hedges its superconducting bet as part of its $10 billion
Hewlett Foundation's $100 Million Bet on Quantum Security
The Hewlett Foundation commits $100 million over five years to security research across AI, biotech, and quantum computing, landing the same week the
Google's Self-Calibrating Qubits: A Live 31% Error Cut
Google Quantum AI and DeepMind show a reinforcement-learning agent can recalibrate a quantum chip's controls live, mid-error-correction — cutting logi
Britain's Quantum Gamble Meets a New Prime Minister's Axe
Britain's tech sector erupts as new PM Andy Burnham reportedly moves to dissolve the department that funds UK quantum research — plus a rack-mounted C
The NISQ Trap: Was Quantum Advantage Doomed From the Start?
This week a philosopher of physics and one of quantum computing's most influential complexity theorists went head-to-head over whether eight years of
IBM's 25% Plunge Meets Quantinuum's Anyon Breakthrough
This week's recap: Quantinuum published a genuine Nature-verified first — a universal gate set built from braiding anyons — the same week IBM posted i
IBM's $67 Billion Wipeout — and Its $10B Quantum Bet
IBM's worst single trading day in over a century collides with its long-term quantum bet, while quantum stocks give back post-executive-order gains an
Quantinuum's Anyon Fusion Trick Chases Universal Quantum Gates
Quantinuum's H2 trapped-ion processor prepares a 54-qubit non-Abelian topological state and shows that fusing anyons, not just braiding them, unlocks
Ep 10: IBM's $10 Billion Quantum Bet Survives a 25% Stock Drop
IBM reaffirms its $10 billion, five-year quantum roadmap and 2029 fault-tolerance target in the same letter admitting a rough Q2 miss and a 25% stock
Ep 9: Can an Ordinary Chip Factory Build a Quantum Computer?
Diraq and imec show eight coherent silicon spin qubits made on a standard 300mm chip foundry line — a real manufacturing milestone with an aggressive
Ep 8: Israel's $5 Billion Quantum SPAC Bet
Two of Israel's best-funded quantum startups, Quantum Art and Classiq, are reportedly in advanced SPAC talks worth up to $5 billion each — we dig into
Ep 7: Is Quantum's $12.6B Boom a Bubble or a Breakthrough?
Sunday think piece: is quantum computing's investment boom a bubble or a genuine commercial tipping point? We put IQM's Nasdaq listing and prospectus
Ep 6: The Week Quantum Became a $2 Billion Bet on Industrial Policy
This week, quantum computing fully collided with Wall Street and Washington: IQM's Nasdaq debut, a $2 billion CHIPS Act incentive package for nine com
Ep 5: Oratomic's $300M Bet That Fault Tolerance Needs 10,000 Qubits, Not Millions
Oratomic just raised $300 million on a bet that fault-tolerant quantum computing needs roughly 10,000 qubits instead of millions — plus Google teaches
Ep 4: Google's Self-Calibrating Willow Chip Hits a New Error Record
Google Quantum AI's Nature paper on a self-calibrating Willow chip headlines today's episode, alongside foundry-scaled silicon qubits, mechanical quan
Ep 3: Quantum's Next Leap: Real Physics or Just a Really Good Pitch?
A $300 million Series A bets that fault-tolerant quantum computing needs far fewer qubits than assumed — plus IBM's fusion-materials stock pop, IonQ's
Ep 2: IBM Tells Washington It's Thinking Too Small on Quantum
The White House holds its first Summit on Quantum Innovation today, and IBM lands a report the same morning warning governments not to think too narro
Ep 1: Fusion, FLiBe, and a $12.6 Billion Quantum Funding Flip
Today's episode covers a wave of quantum funding news — Qolab's $54.2M Series B, McKinsey's data showing private capital swamping government funding,