July 29, 2026 — 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 control chip with no help from room-temperature electronics. Also today: IonQ closes its $1.8B SkyWater foundry acquisition, GlobalFoundries lands a $300M CHIPS letter of intent, Israel pushes for a national quantum R&D center, Anthropic's AI finds new cryptographic weaknesses, and a University of Zurich researcher claims a millionfold theoretical speedup for quantum walks.Linked sources: HRL Shows Self-Operating Silicon Quantum Processor That Performs Error Correction — The Quantum InsiderIonQ's SkyWater Deal Secures U.S.-Based Quantum Chip Supply — Quantum ZeitgeistGlobalFoundries Secures $300 Million CHIPS Award for Silicon Photonics Research — The Quantum InsiderIsrael Pushes For National Quantum R&D Center to Unite Industry — The Quantum InsiderAI Finds New Weaknesses in Cryptographic Algorithms, Anthropic Says — The Quantum InsiderQuantum walks achieve 10^6× speedup over classical Markov chains — X/@GuglielmoMazzo3Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.