Ep 6: The Week Quantum Became a $2 Billion Bet on Industrial Policy

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This week, quantum computing fully collided with Wall Street and Washington: IQM's Nasdaq debut, a $2 billion CHIPS Act incentive package for nine companies, and Oratomic's eyebrow-raising $300 million bet that fault tolerance needs only 10,000-20,000 qubits, not millions. Plus: Google's self-correcting Willow chip, an Oak Ridge/IBM fusion-materials calculation that moved IBM's stock, and hardware stories that slipped through the cracks — electron-on-helium qubits, a new silicon readout sensor, and the accelerating post-quantum cryptography migration. Quantum Computer That Learns From Its Own Errors Mid-Computation — The Quantum Insider Oratomic Raises $300M to Build a Viable Quantum Computer That Needs Only 20K Qubits — TechCrunch Quantum Computers Calculate Fusion Fuel Material Configurations — Phys.org/IBM White House Backs Nine Quantum Companies with $2B in Incentives — Quantum Zeitgeist Long-Theorized Electron-on-Helium Qubit Achieves Strong Coupling — Phys.org Ultra-Compact Sensor Paves the Way for Scalable Silicon Quantum Processors — Phys.org Crypto Firms Prepare Defenses as Quantum Threat to Encryption Draws Nearer — Reuters Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.