July 17, 2026 · 17 min
IBM's $67 Billion Wipeout — and Its $10B Quantum Bet
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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 and researchers push forward on anyons, EUV chips, and error correction. Linked sources: IBM's Record Plunge: The AI Boom's Biggest Victim May Be the Market's Anti-AI Trade — Quantum Zeitgeist Quantum Computing Stocks Drop 35% as Federal Mandate Reshapes Investment Case — Tech Times Braided, Exotic Particles Could Build Reliable, Universal Quantum Computers — The Quantum Insider imec publishes arXiv paper on EUV quantum test chip — X/@lithos_graphein Quantum Computing (QUBT) Completes Acquisition of NHanced Semiconductors for $73.1M — Yahoo Finance Quantum Source and Israel's DDR&R;D Demonstrate Robust Single-Atom Source for Real-World Quantum Communication — The Quantum Insider Rice University Team Presents Topological Subsystem Code Framework for Quantum Error Correction — Quantum Zeitgeist Netherlands delivers its first quantum computer to German aerospace institute — NL Times Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.