Oratomic's $300M Bet: Do 10,000 Qubits Beat Millions?

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Caltech and the neutral-atom startup Oratomic unveiled new 'mitten' quantum error-correction codes today, reigniting the debate over whether cryptographically-relevant quantum computing really only needs ten thousand qubits instead of millions. Plus: OpenAI says an internal model solved ten open math and quantum-complexity problems, IQM posts its first public-company earnings, and more. High-rate qLDPC processors ('mitten' codes) — arXiv Caltech and Oratomic Introduce 'Mitten' qLDPC Codes — Quantum Computing Report IonQ, EPB Launch Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center — The Quantum Insider Ten Advances in Mathematics — OpenAI IQM Reports First Half 2026 Results — GlobeNewswire Rigetti, HPE, and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Partner to Build 'TangleLab' — Quantum Computing Report JIJ Turns Qamomile From Optimizer Into Full Quantum Language — Quantum Zeitgeist Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.