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This week's recap: Washington took minority equity stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum as part of a $300 million CHIPS Act funding push, IonQ used its Investor Day to detail a Bitcoin-cracking roadmap, and NEC quietly stepped back from quantum hardware. Plus the smaller stories that flew under the radar — SEALSQ's revenue jump, a Canadian cryogenics contract, a marquee UConn hire, and PsiQuantum's finalized CHIPS award.D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum Just Got $300 Million — The Motley FoolIonQ Uses Investor Day to Detail Superion Roadmap — The Quantum InsiderNEC Halts Development of Quantum Computer Hardware — The Quantum InsiderSEALSQ Reports H1 2026 Results — GlobeNewswire (SEALSQ press release)Qubic Secures $1.5 Million Canadian Government Contract — The Quantum InsiderRenowned Expert Elevates UConn Quantum Research — UConn TodayPsiQuantum Finalizes $100M U.S. Government Award — The Quantum InsiderSource links01net.it@IonQ_Inc on X@PsiQuantum on X@QuantinuumQC on X@StockSavvyShay on Xforklog.comquantumzeitgeist.comspaceq.cathequantuminsider.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.More from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.

An open, crowdsourced contest of humans and AI agents claims it cut the estimated quantum cost of a key Bitcoin-cracking step by 86%, undercutting a Google benchmark — but the paper's own authors warn the comparison isn't apples-to-apples. Plus: Novo Holdings says quantum investors are overweight hardware, and Chalmers researchers find a 1,000x speedup for bosonic qubit operations.ECDSA.Fail paper — arXivResearchers And AI Agents Cut Estimated Quantum Cost of Attacking Bitcoin Encryption by 86% — The Quantum InsiderNovo Holdings Report: Quantum Investment Must Move Beyond Hardware to Build Applications — The Quantum Insider1,000 times faster operations bring reliable quantum computing a step closer — Phys.orgSource links@infleqtion on X@NEARProtocol on X@nearprotocol on X@QuantinuumQC on Xdecrypt.coquantumcomputingreport.comtech.yahoo.comthequantuminsider.comthequantuminsider.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.More from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.

IonQ puts a precise number on breaking Bitcoin's encryption — and we check the hype against the roadmap. Plus IQM's staged path to logical qubits in Finland, an IBM-Lockheed quantum hub in Switzerland, a chemistry accuracy benchmark from Qedma, and Treasury's new bank-readiness task force.The First Full-Stack Blueprint for Breaking 256-bit Elliptic Curve Signatures — IonQIQM Plans Logical-Qubit System for Finland's LUMI AI Factory — The Quantum InsiderIBM, Lockheed Martin Announce Swiss Quantum Innovation Hub — IBM NewsroomQedma and HQC2 Boost Quantum Chemistry Accuracy — Quantum ZeitgeistUS Financial Sector Quantum Threat Prep Led by Quantum Readiness Task Force — Quantum ZeitgeistSource links@IonQ_Inc on Xcioinfluence.comlumi-supercomputer.euSource linkssec.gov@TechSpot on Xinterestingengineering.comquantumcomputingreport.comthequantuminsider.comthequantuminsider.comtipranks.comtradingview.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.More from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.

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Two ways to solve the same quantum manufacturing bottleneck: Washington takes equity in three rival hardware companies via a $300M CHIPS Act deal, while IonQ bets its $1.8B SkyWater acquisition on owning the fab outright. Plus GlobalFoundries' own quantum manufacturing award and a Gordon Bell Prize finalist.D-Wave, Rigetti, Quantinuum land $300M CHIPS deal — Yahoo FinanceIonQ launches Superion product line — IonQ.comGlobalFoundries wins $375M for quantum manufacturing — Quantum ZeitgeistCleveland Clinic, RIKEN and IBM advance to Gordon Bell Prize finals — The Quantum InsiderSource linkssec.gov@QuantinuumQC on Xasktraders.comblockonomi.comnewsable.asianetnews.comthequantuminsider.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.More from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.

NEC has quietly stepped back from building its own superconducting quantum computer, citing an ROI timeline too long to justify the capital — while cross-town rival Fujitsu, with TU Delft and QuTech, unveiled a diamond-spin prototype and a 2030/2035 logical-qubit roadmap. Plus: Singapore and Luxembourg pledge deeper quantum cooperation, and a University of Surrey team proposes a superfluid-helium qubit design.NEC Discontinues Superconducting Quantum Computer Development — Quantum Computing ReportFujitsu develops diamond-spin quantum computer prototype — The Quantum InsiderSingapore, Luxembourg Target Deeper Cooperation in Quantum, AI And Space — The Quantum InsiderUniversity of Surrey designs superfluid helium qubit — Quantum ZeitgeistQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.More from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.

Quickly Quantum with Brian Lampert. Daily news and analysis from the quantum computing frontierA short introduction to the show. New episode every day.Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.More from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.

NEC, the company behind the world's first superconducting qubit demonstration in 1999, has halted development of quantum computer hardware — while continuing annealing and quantum-inspired work on conventional machines. Plus: a new record for single-photon flux, and the G7's fresh warning on post-quantum cryptography.Japan's NEC scraps effort to build a quantum computer — Nikkei AsiaNEC Halts Development of Quantum Computer Hardware — The Quantum InsiderSparrow Quantum Sets Record With 500 Million Usable Photons Per Second — The Quantum InsiderPreparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action — ANSSI/G7Source links@NikkeiAsia on Xdigitimes.comthecyberexpress.comtherecord.mediaQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

A Sunday think piece on IBM veteran and ERVA co-chair Brian Gaucher's claim that quantum computing's real bottleneck has shifted from physics to engineering — pilot lines, standards, and workforce — and whether the error-correction literature and workforce data actually back that up.Brian Gaucher (ERVA): Why engineering, not physics, now limits quantum progress — The Quantum InsiderReport: Engineering Research To Advance Quantum Technologies — ERVANew road map for engineering research to advance quantum technologies — National Science FoundationBattling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer — Physics TodayQuantum Error Correction: A Full Stack Challenge — IEEE Computer SocietyQuantum Computing Challenges Holding Back Practical Quantum Computers — The Quantum InsiderSource linksbqpsim.comthequantuminsider.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

This week's recap: an infrastructure-and-institutions week for quantum, from IBM's faster Nighthawk r2 chip and PsiQuantum's algorithm-development deal with Brookhaven Lab, to Quantinuum's Aramco MOU, Pasqal's blockbuster Nasdaq debut, and a wave of European and U.S. quantum manufacturing announcements.IBM's Nighthawk r2 Quantum Processor Targets a 25-Fold Increase in Circuit Speed — IBM Quantum BlogPsiQuantum and Brookhaven Lab Partner on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Algorithms — The Quantum InsiderQuantinuum and Aramco Sign MOU to Explore Industrial Quantum Computing — QuantinuumPasqal Shares Nearly Double in Nasdaq Debut — The Quantum InsiderEurope Looks to Quantum Act to Turn Research Strength Into Industry — European CommissionQuantum Foundry Copenhagen Plans 5,300-Square-Meter Chip Facility — The Next WebGeorge Mason University Partners with TreQ to Install $7.7M Open-Architecture Quantum QPU — George Mason UniversityForschungszentrum Jülich Operates eleQtron's JION Trapped-Ion QPU via JUNIQ Infrastructure — HPCwireSource links@HPCwire on X@PsiQuantum on Xhpcwire.commanilatimes.netquantumcomputingreport.comquantumcomputingreport.comquantumcomputingreport.comquantumcomputingreport.comsg.news.yahoo.comthequantuminsider.comthequantuminsider.comthequantuminsider.comthequantuminsider.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

IBM claims a 25x circuit-throughput leap on its Nighthawk r2 chip without adding a single qubit — we ask whether that's real progress or a self-graded milestone. Plus: Quantinuum courts Aramco, Jülich switches on a trapped-ion machine, Quantum Motion raises more silicon-qubit cash, and the G7 tells industry to stop stalling on post-quantum encryption.IBM Nighthawk r2 announcement — IBMQuantinuum signs non-binding MoU with Aramco — QuantinuumJülich Launches Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer — The Quantum InsiderQuantum Motion Raises Additional Funding — The Quantum InsiderG7 tells industry to hurry up on post-quantum encryption — CyberScoopSource links@HPCwire on X@IBM on X@ibm on Xhpcwire.comhpcwire.comhpcwire.comitpro.comquantumcomputingreport.comquantumcomputingreport.comthequantuminsider.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

IBM's Nighthawk r2 claims a twenty-five-fold jump in quantum circuit throughput via a redesigned reset architecture — we dig into whether that speed actually narrows the gap to quantum advantage. Plus: PsiQuantum partners with Brookhaven Lab, Rigetti and Purdue speed up classical optimization, MIT redesigns the qubit, Quobly signs two European deals, and an unverified quantum-router claim out of China.IBM's Nighthawk r2 announcement — IBM Quantum BlogPsiQuantum and Brookhaven Lab Partner on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Algorithms — The Quantum InsiderRigetti and Purdue Demonstrate Quantum Preconditioning Framework — Quantum Computing ReportNew Qubit Architecture Enables Faster, More Accurate Operations — MIT NewsQuobly Signs Dual Agreements with TNO and OrangeQS — Quantum Computing ReportChina achieves 98% transmission efficiency in single quantum router breakthrough — Global Times (via Google News)Source linksPsiQuantum (X, primary announcement)Quantum Computing ReportQuantum Computing ReportQuantum Computing ReportQuantum Computing ReportQuantum Computing ReportThe Quantum Insiderx.comx.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

A quiet news day sends Brian back to first principles: why quantum computers can't just back up their data the way classical computers do, and how a 2004 NIST result still frames the field's biggest engineering fight today.Linked sources: NIST Demonstrates 'Data Repair Kit' for Quantum Computers — National Institute of Standards and TechnologyQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Pasqal's Nasdaq debut anchors France's quantum month, but the numbers behind it deserve their own look — plus AI-sped qubit calibration, a trapped-ion fidelity milestone, and a fresh Finnish superconducting startup raise.French National Quantum Update: August 2026 — The Quantum InsiderQuantum Machines and Academia Sinica speed up qubit tuning with AI — Quantum ZeitgeistGeometric phase gates boost ion qubit entanglement fidelity — Quantum ZeitgeistS-Transistors raises €2.6M for superconducting quantum computing platform — Tech.euQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

This week's recap: Pasqal's Nasdaq debut, Canada's massive bet on Xanadu, an Italian court dealing IBM a legal setback, crypto's growing quantum anxiety, and a look back at IBM's contested 70-logical-qubit advantage claim, NSF's $290M research push, and the HRL acquisition.Pasqal Shares Nearly Double in Nasdaq Debut — The Quantum InsiderCanada Invests CAD $195 Million in Xanadu — The Quantum InsiderItalian Court Upholds Halt to IBM's Campania Contract — The Quantum InsiderStarkWare's quantum-resistant BTC storage — X/@coinbureauNSF Invests $290M in Eight Quantum Research Institutes — The Quantum InsiderIBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories — The Quantum InsiderQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

IBM has completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, pulling silicon-spin qubit expertise into a company that built its whole roadmap on superconducting circuits — is it a hedge, or just insurance? Plus: EuroHPC's thirteen startup picks, a trapped-ion fidelity fix from LLNL and NIST, Sabine Hossenfelder amplifying a Bloomberg piece on quantum hype versus cyber risk, and funding news from ColibriTD and Diraq.IBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories — The Quantum InsiderEuroHPC Selects 13 European QPU Startups — Quantum Computing ReportRamped Fields Create More Robust Trapped-Ion Entanglement — Quantum Physics NewsQuantum Computers Promise Breakthroughs But Risk a Cybersecurity Crisis — BloombergColibriTD Raises €4M to Expand Quantum Simulation Software — The Quantum InsiderDiraq Launches Engineering Hub in Santa Monica — Quantum Computing ReportQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Bloomberg's Mark Bergen asks whether quantum computing is finally arriving or still running on hype — real fidelity gains from Quantinuum and IonQ and bold timelines from Scott Aaronson and DARPA collide with sky-high valuations and short-seller scrutiny of IonQ. Plus: NIST's detector breakthrough, Sweden's national quantum strategy, D-Wave's CFO transition, IonQ's energy-efficiency claims, and a fresh lattice-vs-hash encryption debate.Linked sources: The Dream of Quantum Computing Is Both Dead and Alive — BloombergShtetl-Optimized — Scott AaronsonNIST 100x SNSPD Scaling — Quantum Computing ReportSweden's National Quantum Strategy — Quantum Computing ReportD-Wave CFO John Markovich to Retire — The Quantum InsiderKnitter et al. preprint on quantum fine-tuning energy use — arXivIonQ energy-efficiency post — X/@IonQ_IncNEAR post-quantum crypto debate — X/@NEARProtocolQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Linked sources: NSF Invests $290M in Eight Quantum Research Institutes — NSF.govLinked sources: Princeton to Lead Major Federally Funded Quantum Institute — Princeton EngineeringLinked sources: Google Quantum Bitcoin Resource Estimate Analysis — postquantum.comLinked sources: Fireblocks on Google's Quantum Research — FireblocksLinked sources: Fourier Neural Operator DFT Paper — Communications Physics (Nature)Linked sources: Xanadu and Mitsubishi Chemical Advance EUV Lithography Work — The Quantum InsiderQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Japan's Institute for Molecular Science says its full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer, Shunkai, is operational — but the hard error-correction proof is still years out. Plus: China's 2030 cyber plan names quantum a priority, a Vienna team pairs electron microscopes with a trapped-ion quantum computer, Infleqtion's revenue jumps 157% ahead of its NYSE-listed neutral-atom bet, and a Diraq lab update from Chicago.Linked sources: IMS Commercialization Preparatory Platform — Institute for Molecular ScienceJapan's Full-Stack Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer is Operational — The Quantum InsiderChina Puts Quantum Technology Among Priorities in New 2030 Cyber Industry Plan — The Quantum InsiderQuantum computer microscope is set to significantly improve electron microscopy — Phys.orgInfleqtion (INFQ) and the Neutral-Atom Bet Behind Its NYSE Listing — Quantum ZeitgeistIs quantum computing playing out like mobile phones, circa 1995? — Google News / Laser Focus WorldDiraq opens first U.S. lab in Chicago — X/@diraqQCQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

This week's recap: IBM and UChicago's 70-logical-qubit 'trusted' quantum advantage claim collides with a growing replication-crisis debate, while Brookhaven and Stony Brook debut the first US free-space quantum network link. Plus: the $2 trillion post-quantum migration story, IonQ's scam backlash versus its NVIDIA chemistry results, and a White House critical-tech strategy putting quantum on the national priority list.IBM and UChicago Demonstrate Verified 'Trusted' Quantum Advantage with 70 Logical Qubits — The Quantum InsiderBrookhaven Lab and Stony Brook Demonstrate First US Free-Space Quantum Network Link Across 13 Miles — Quantum Computing ReportWSJ: Businesses Are Spending Big on Quantum — Allstate CEO Says 'Get on the Train' (Wall Street Journal)Fortune: 'Great Quantum Migration' Puts Over $2 Trillion in Digital Assets at Risk (Fortune)Quantum computing may be facing a replication crisis (New Scientist)Quantum sector called a 'scam' amid IonQ hype backlash (Various)IonQ + NVIDIA + qBraid Paper: 54% Error Reduction in Quantum Chemistry Simulation — via XWhite House Critical Tech Strategy Flags Quantum; New FBI Quantum Counterintelligence Team — via XPhysicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 km (Phys.org)Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Caltech says its team used a neutral-atom quantum simulator to directly measure forty-year-old conformal field theory predictions for the first time, raising the question of what 'useful quantum computing' really means today. Also: Rigetti reorganizes to scale on-premises deployments, Crypto4A claims a post-quantum hardware security first, Blockstream demos quantum-safe signatures on hardware wallets, an error-detection paper digest circulates on X, and Pasqal's SPAC merger gets a shareholder vote date.Universal Pattern Revealed in Quantum Matter — Caltech NewsroomRigetti Establishes Dedicated Systems Delivery Organization — GlobeNewswireCrypto4A's Module Supports All NIST Post-Quantum Algorithms — Quantum ZeitgeistBlockstream Demos Post-Quantum Signatures on Jade & Three Other Wallets — X/@BlockstreamJadeQuantum Paper Digest Post — X/@quantumboomnowPasqal and Bleichroeder Set August 25 Shareholder Vote — The Quantum InsiderQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Cornell engineers swap argon for krypton gas and cut tantalum qubit deposition temperature from over 400°C to 200°C — a fabrication fix that could matter more for scaling superconducting quantum chips than another qubit-count record. Plus: a Cambridge theory paper narrows what counts as a real quantum advantage, Caltech watches conformal field theory play out on a Rydberg-atom simulator, and a $3B quantum SPAC merger takes its next regulatory step.Main story: New ingredient in quantum computing: krypton gas — Cornell Chronicle and Cornell Researchers Lower Tantalum Qubit Deposition Temperature — Quantum Computing ReportThe secret to quantum computing may lie in negativity — St John's College, CambridgeCaltech Team Uses Quantum Simulator to Probe Universal Rules of Quantum Matter — The Quantum InsiderEigenQ and Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp S-4 filing — StockTitan/SECDiraq Opens First U.S. Quantum Laboratory in Chicago — The Quantum InsiderNonlinear fluid dynamics thread — X/@FreeDeathTVSenators push bill QED-C says will shield power grid from quantum hacking — Quantum ZeitgeistInfleqtion opens Colorado Quantum Innovation Center HQ — X/@infleqtionQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

IBM connects its first two modular cryogenic systems on the road to its 2029 Quantum Starling machine — real engineering, but does it retire the hardest risk left on the roadmap? Plus: a record-breaking 420 km quantum memory link, a bipartisan grid cybersecurity bill, a live D-Wave deployment at NTT DOCOMO, a cheaper way to fabricate tantalum qubit chips, and a widely-engaged X thread asking if quantum computing is one big bubble.Linked sources: IBM Connects Its First Modular Cryogenic Systems — PR Newswire / IBMQuantum sector called a 'scam' — X/@ParadisLabs and IonQ CEO commentary — Yahoo Finance / TheStreetNew Tantalum Process — The Quantum Insider and Krypton gas study — Phys.orgEntangling Quantum Memories through a 420 km Long Fiber — Physical Review Letters and arXiv preprintQuantum-GUARD Act — Congress.gov and SRI / QED-C statementNTT DOCOMO Deploys Second D-Wave Application — Quantum Computing ReportOTI Lumionics & SAIT 200+ Logical Qubit Emulation — Quantum Computing ReportQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Today's lead: an IBM/Qedma/RIKEN/BlueQubit quantum magnetism result gets cross-validated on Quantinuum's rival hardware, raising the bar for what counts as a durable quantum advantage claim. Plus: IonQ's 256-qubit chip samples, a Chicago community fight over a $9B quantum campus, Nvidia's classical-compute bet, a dense new qubit proposal, and India's new quantum foundry.Linked sources: IBM and Qedma Demonstrate Quantum Advantage — IBM NewsroomIBM/Qedma Demonstrate Quantum Advantage — QedmaBlueQubit/Qedma/IBM/RIKEN Quantum Simulation Study — The Quantum InsiderIonQ 8-K Filing — SECMayor's Support for Quantum Campus Irks Some South Siders — Block Club ChicagoSouth Side Residents Push Back — CBS ChicagoWhy Nvidia and Washington Are Betting Big on Quantum — InvezzNanomechanical Spin Qubits and Bosonic Encoding — Quantum ZeitgeistQpiAI Opens Quantum Chip Foundry in India — The Quantum InsiderQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Today's episode digs into a New Scientist feature revisiting Sergey Frolov's Science paper on failed Majorana zero-mode replications — physics central to Microsoft's Topological Core roadmap — plus four quick hits spanning benchmark rigor, single-pulse qubit gates, altermagnetic spintronics, and prethermal plateau theory.Linked sources: Replication efforts show smoking gun evidence isn't what it seemed — Phys.org / University of PittsburghQuantum computing replication study — ScienceDaily / University of PittsburghScientists Propose More Realistic Benchmarks For Quantum Algorithms — The Quantum InsiderBrazilian Researchers Demonstrate Universal Single-Qubit Gates with One Pulse — Quantum ZeitgeistStrain flips Hall signal in altermagnetic manganese telluride — Phys.orgUniversity of Connecticut Perturbative Theory Predicts Plateau Height & Timescale — Quantum ZeitgeistQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

This week a KAIST team showed that bound entanglement — real, provable quantum correlation that can't be distilled into clean entangled pairs — can't deliver the exponential learning speedup the quantum machine learning field has long attributed to entanglement generically. This Sunday think piece walks the full fault line: the KAIST result itself, the Huang-Kueng-Preskill and ancilla-qubit camps defending real exponential advantages, the 2018 dequantization tradition that keeps eating QML's boldest claims, and the Schuld/Killoran and Aaronson objections to the whole 'quantum beats classical' framing.Linked sources: On the Fundamental Resource for Exponential Advantage in Quantum Channel Learning — Nature CommunicationsEntanglement-Enabled Advantage for Learning a Bosonic Random Displacement Channel — KAISTQuantum Entanglement Alone Isn't Enough For Quantum Machine Learning — Quantum ZeitgeistSampling-based sublinear low-rank matrix arithmetic framework for dequantizing quantum machine learning — arXivIs Quantum Advantage the Right Goal for Quantum Machine Learning? — PRX Quantum / arXivOh right, quantum computing — Scott Aaronson's blogEntanglement-induced provable and robust quantum learning advantages — arXivQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

The weekly recap: Quantinuum's record earnings and Oracle Cloud deal send the stock soaring, Infleqtion and IonQ post strong quarters while D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantum Computing Inc. get a rougher reception, and we dig into four under-the-radar stories the weekday show missed, a quantum heat engine, a Pfizer drug-discovery framework, enterprise adoption from the Wall Street Journal, and crypto's quantum-risk reckoning.Quantinuum's Breakout Week: Record Earnings, Oracle Cloud Deal, Stock Soars 30% — The Business JournalsCongress and the Pentagon Keep Pushing Quantum Funding as China Race Intensifies — TQI/Congress.govInfleqtion's Record Revenue and $100M CHIPS Act LOI — TQIQuantum Stocks' Earnings 'Reality Check' Splits the Sector — Barron'sQuantinuum, NVIDIA, and Pfizer Validate GenQAI Framework — Quantum Computing ReportWorld's First Superconducting Quantum Heat Engine Demonstrated — ScienceDailyWSJ: Businesses Are Spending Big on Quantum — Wall Street JournalFortune: 'Great Quantum Migration' Puts $2 Trillion at Risk — FortuneMitsui & Mitsubishi Electric Benchmark QFT on Helios — Quantum Computing ReportQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Quantinuum's first earnings report as a public company landed alongside a multiyear Oracle Cloud Infrastructure partnership, sending shares up roughly 22% and raising the question of whether quantum-as-a-cloud-service is the model that wins. Also today: Infleqtion's record quarter and CHIPS Act letter of intent, a Nature Physics paper on efficient quantum state preparation, Diraq's workforce argument, a new Rigetti-PSC testbed, New York's $60M quantum hub RFP, and a claimed TRON post-quantum milestone.Oracle deal lifts bookings outlook as Quantinuum stock surges — The Crypto BasicInfleqtion Reports Record Q2 Revenue, Raises 2026 Outlook — InfleqtionEfficient quantum state preparation paper — Nature PhysicsDiraq Says Quantum Computing Needs a Broader Workforce Beyond PhDs — The Quantum InsiderRigetti Computing & PSC to Build $5M Quantum-Classical Testbed — Quantum ZeitgeistNew York Opens $60 Million RFP for Quantum Technology Hubs — The Quantum InsiderNew York State Launches $60M RFP — Quantum Computing ReportTRON activates NIST post-quantum signatures on Nile testnet — X/@GREATVVIPQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Quantinuum's Helios trapped-ion computer is moving into an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center under a new multi-year deal — the show's main story asks whether that makes quantum real infrastructure or just well-placed real estate. Plus: a silicon spin-qubit error-correction advance out of TU Delft, South Korea's new national quantum strategy, a D-Wave grant from Canada's NRC, and IBM's Nighthawk processor heading to Yonsei University.Linked sources: Quantinuum and Oracle Partner to Accelerate Hybrid Quantum Compute Adoption — Quantinuum and Oracle Partners With Quantinuum — DataCenterDynamicsWeight-four parity checks in a spin-shuttling architecture — X/@NatureAsiaKorea names quantum one of 7 future industries — X/@TechInnovationz and Korea's Seven SEED strategy — TechRepublicD-Wave Awarded NRC Canada Funding — The Quantum InsiderYonsei to Install IBM Nighthawk Processor — The Quantum InsiderQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Quantinuum's first earnings report as a public company pairs a 279% revenue jump against a $597M GAAP loss, alongside a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure partnership for its Helios machine. Plus: MIT traces correlated qubit errors to cosmic rays and fridge vibrations, a Georgia Tech proof rules out quantum advantage for grid power flow, a photonic chip builds loss-resistant W states from qudits, IBM's trusted-advantage claim gets scrutinized over problem selection, and Honda invests in quantum-materials startup Quemix.Quantinuum Q2 2026 Earnings Release — SEC 8-K FilingQuantinuum Revenue Jumps 279% in First Earnings Report Since IPO — The Quantum InsiderQuEra, Zapata Partner to Prove Business Value of Quantum Computing — The Business JournalsQubit Errors Traced to Two Sources: Cosmic Rays, Cooler Vibrations — Quantum ZeitgeistPGLib Rules Out Quantum Power Flow Advantage at Every Readout Level — Quantum ZeitgeistW States Built With Qudits on Photonic Chip — @ProfWoodward on XIBM's Verifiable Quantum Advantage — IEEE SpectrumFact-Check: IBM's Three Trusted Quantum Advantage Papers — postquantum.comHonda Invests in Quemix to Advance Quantum Computing Applications for Materials Research — The Quantum InsiderQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Pasqal says it trapped rubidium atoms using laser light routed entirely through a photonic chip, a possible fix for neutral-atom computing's free-space optics bottleneck — though it's a four-atom proof of concept, not the ten-thousand-atom machine on the roadmap. Plus: Congress eyes a 68% quantum defense funding boost as IonQ closes its SkyWater deal, Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin reprioritizes quantum safety, Morgan Stanley pledges quantum a seat at its $1.5 trillion innovation initiative, Utah launches a state quantum council, QCi posts mixed Q2 earnings, and Google's Bitcoin quantum-threat paper gets revived by Algorand.Linked sources: Pasqal Achieves First On-Chip Neutral-Atom Qubit Trapping — Quantum Computing ReportVitalik updates Ethereum roadmap: quantum safety now higher priority — X/@NaoXprotocolIonQ 8-K, SEC EDGAR and Bipartisan Congress Moves To Boost Quantum Funding — Quantum ZeitgeistUtah Launches Quantum Initiative — The Quantum InsiderMorgan Stanley Launches U.S. Innovation Initiative — The Quantum InsiderQuantum Computing Inc. Reports Q2 2026 Financial Results — Quantum Computing ReportGoogle Quantum AI whitepaper and X/@algor_ndQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Congress is moving to raise military quantum spending 68% to $567 million, with the same firms benefiting from doubled lobbying and political ties to the administration. Also: IonQ, D-Wave, and Rigetti post divergent earnings, Q-CTRL sets a new largest-ever Quantum Fourier Transform record on IBM hardware, and researchers try entangled photons powered by nothing but sunlight.Main story: U.S. Lawmakers Reportedly Pushing Higher Defense Spending on Quantum — The Quantum Insider and Congress Eyes Boosting Quantum Funds — BloombergDARPA Selects IonQ to Produce Atomic Clocks — BusinessWire via YahooD-Wave Q2 2026 Results — SEC FilingBreaking the 100-Qubit Barrier: QFT at Scale on IBM Hardware — arXiv preprintPhase-change memory as a computational primitive — @QuantumTumbler on XEntangled Photons From Sunlight — Quantum ZeitgeistUCalgary Builds Secure Hub for Quantum Defence Innovation — Quantum ZeitgeistQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

This Sunday's think piece takes on quantum cryptography's strangest promise: uncloneable encryption, which uses the no-cloning theorem to make copying a stolen ciphertext physically impossible rather than just computationally hard. We walk four competing camps — unconditional security, efficient reusability, weakest-assumption 'microcrypt,' and the impossibility theorists keeping everyone honest — that all published within weeks of each other trying to push the primitive from a single guaranteed bit toward real, arbitrary-length messages.Linked sources: Statistically secure uncloneable encryption of arbitrary messages — arXivEfficient Unclonable Encryption from Pauli Eigenstates — arXivA Note on Boosting Uncloneable Encryption in Microcrypt — arXivUnclonable Encryption in the Haar Random Oracle Model — IACR ePrint ArchiveThe uncloneable bit exists — arXivLimitations on Uncloneable Encryption and Simultaneous One-Way-to-Hiding — arXivQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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 record losses, and Washington and Shanghai both race to lock in quantum funding and IPO pipelines. Plus the under-the-radar stories on IonQ's space division, Xanadu's capital raise, and Pasqal's SPAC clearing the SEC.IBM claims quantum advantage era with 3 new papers — Phys.orgIonQ Raises 2026 Revenue Outlook After Record Quarter — The Quantum InsiderD-Wave's New Qubit Gate Cuts Error Rates by 10x — The Quantum InsiderMulti-Team QEC Advances Reshape CRQC Risk Models — @infosec on XIonQ Reports Record Q2 2026 Financial Results — Quantum Computing ReportTuringQ Joins China's IPO Pipeline — The Quantum InsiderXanadu Raised $67.2M to Expand US Quantum Operations — Quantum ZeitgeistSEC Declares Registration Statement Effective for Pasqal's Business Combination — Quantum Computing ReportCongress Eyes Boosting Quantum Funds as Global Race Heats Up — Bloomberg via Google NewsQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

An AWS cryptographer's preliminary quantum algorithm takes aim at the lattice math behind post-quantum encryption, while IonQ's earnings spook investors, Rigetti banks a huge cash cushion, and a German startup claims a room-temperature diamond quantum computer.Linked sources: Daniel R. Simon's Dihedral Coset Problem paper — IACR ePrint ArchiveAmazon Researcher Claims Quantum Algorithm Could Challenge PQC Foundations — The Quantum InsiderIonQ 8-K SEC filing — StockTitanRigetti has $541 million to fund quantum R&D — Quantum ZeitgeistDiamond-powered room-temperature quantum computer — Live Science via Google NewsPasqal Receives SEC Clearance for SPAC Combination With Bleichroeder — The Quantum InsiderMulti-team QEC advances reshape CRQC risk models — @infosec on XQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

IonQ posts a record quarter and raises guidance, D-Wave claims a tenfold path to lower quantum error rates, NIST sends entangled photons across ordinary internet fiber, and DARPA turns its attention to quantum manufacturing. Then: Microsoft's Chetan Nayak says he doesn't care that much of physics doubts his topological qubit claims — we dig into why, and what's actually at stake.IonQ Q2 2026 earnings — IonQ Investor RelationsIonQ earnings coverage — BigGo FinanceD-Wave's dual-rail entangling gate — D-Wave (Business Wire)D-Wave Nature paper details — HPCwireEntangled photons across 62km of fiber — NISTDARPA's quantum manufacturing pivot — The Quantum InsiderDARPA optical clock manufacturing program — Quantum ZeitgeistVictor Peng on Bloomberg TV — BloombergMicrosoft's Majorana bet — Science (AAAS)Skeptics on Microsoft's topological qubit — Scientific AmericanQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

IonQ signs its third government-and-industry MOU in five days, this time with Sandia National Laboratories, prompting a hard look at whether the pattern is a real national-security moat or a well-run press cycle. Also today: Israel names its national quantum tender, an X thread guts IBM's 'quantum advantage era' claim, Fujitsu-Monash-CSIRO link up, Argonne pinpoints a silicon qubit defect, and a profile of Oxford Ionics founder Chris Ballance.IonQ and Sandia National Laboratories Sign MOU — IonQIsrael Launches National Quantum Computer Tender — The Quantum Insider and YnetnewsIBM Claims Verifiable Quantum Advantage — IEEE Spectrum and The Next PlatformFujitsu, Monash University, and CSIRO Form Australia–Japan Quantum Research Partnership — Quantum Computing ReportUncovering Hidden Disorder in Silicon Quantum Computers — U.S. Department of Energy and Quantum ZeitgeistChris Ballance, The British Quantum Entrepreneur Who Put Ion Traps On A Chip — Quantum ZeitgeistQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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) — arXivCaltech and Oratomic Introduce 'Mitten' qLDPC Codes — Quantum Computing ReportIonQ, EPB Launch Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center — The Quantum InsiderTen Advances in Mathematics — OpenAIIQM Reports First Half 2026 Results — GlobeNewswireRigetti, HPE, and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Partner to Build 'TangleLab' — Quantum Computing ReportJIJ Turns Qamomile From Optimizer Into Full Quantum Language — Quantum ZeitgeistQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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 IISS analysis argues Western export controls have become deliberate industrial strategy. Plus D-Wave's fraud-detection deal with Nasdaq Verafin, an IBM-RIKEN quantum advantage claim on a real materials problem, and OptQC and NTT's deepening optical quantum push.Linked sources: China Forms Quantum Standards Committee to Coordinate Industry Development — The Quantum InsiderWestern Quantum Export Controls Are Evolving Into an Industrial Strategy, IISS Analysis Says — The Quantum InsiderD-Wave and Nasdaq Verafin Announce Agreement for Quantum Computing Application Development — The Quantum InsiderBlueQubit, IBM, and RIKEN Demonstrate Quantum R&D Potential — Quantum ZeitgeistOptQC and NTT Strengthen Collaboration on Large-Scale Optical Quantum Computing — The Quantum InsiderQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

Three independent teams solved a famous twenty-year-old open problem in quantum information theory — the two-copy distillability of Werner states — within days of each other in late July 2026. One team credits AI models with generating the actual proof; another reached the same conclusion with a fully human derivation. Brian walks through both papers, Terence Tao's ICM warning about 'proof abundance,' and the Leiden Declaration's pushback, then lands his own read on what the convergence actually proves.A solution to 2-copy distillability of Werner states — arXivOn the two-copy distillability of Werner states and a new partial trace inequality — arXivFive Open Problems in Quantum Information Theory — PRX QuantumFields Medalist Terence Tao warns AI could produce more math proofs than humans can handle — VnExpress InternationalThe Leiden Declaration: Mathematics, AI, and Making Our Values Explicit — Communications of the ACMHave Published The First Research Article In Theoretical Physics Where The Main Idea Came From AI — OfficeChaiQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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 could still doom the whole project. Meanwhile IonQ closes its SkyWater chip deal as pure-play quantum stocks keep sliding, Multiverse Computing chases a massive Series C, and NIST, semiconductor researchers, and the U.S. Navy all quietly move the field forward.IBM and University of Chicago Demonstrate Verified Logical Quantum Computation Beyond Classical Simulation — The Quantum InsiderIonQ Clears Final Regulatory Hurdle to Complete Acquisition of SkyWater Technology — The Quantum InsiderIonQ, Rigetti, and D-Wave Quantum Are Down 30% in a Month — Yahoo FinanceMultiverse Computing Announces Series C Fundraising Targeting up to $570 MillionGil Kalai: Why noise may doom quantum computers — The Quantum InsiderTwo independent studies push semiconductor qubits towards practical scales — Quantum Physics NewsNIST Finalizes Three Post-Quantum Encryption Standards for Secure Data — Quantum ZeitgeistU.S. Naval Research Laboratory Outlines Strategic Quantum Research Priorities — Quantum Computing ReportQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

IBM and a coalition of research partners published three peer-reviewed papers claiming 'trusted' quantum advantage — with open circuits for anyone to try to break — while the rest of the day's news ranged from a self-controlling silicon qubit chip to a Korean photon interconnect and France's monthly quantum scorecard.Linked sources: IBM and Ecosystem Partners Demonstrate 'Trusted Quantum Advantage' — Quantum Computing ReportHRL Ribbon Cable Preserves Qubit States in Self-Controlling Processor — Quantum ZeitgeistWhy full-fledged quantum computers might always be five years away — New ScientistIBM CEO Expects Quantum Computing to Drive Revenue by 2020s — The Quantum InsiderPusan National University and UNIST Demonstrate Hybrid Quantum Interconnect Benchmark — Quantum Computing ReportFrench National Quantum Update: July 2026 — The Quantum InsiderQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

IBM rolls out three coordinated quantum advantage demonstrations — with Algorithmiq, the University of Chicago, and Qedma — and opens them to public, independent verification. Meanwhile IonQ clears its last hurdle to close a $1.8 billion foundry deal, a D-Wave/Quip thread stirs debate over verifiable optimization results, a new prethermal-dynamics preprint enters the same advantage contest, quantum stocks keep sliding, and QED-C publishes a quantum networking roadmap.Linked sources: IBM Claims New Era of 'Quantum Advantage' — WSJIonQ Clears Final Regulatory Hurdle to Complete Acquisition of SkyWater Technology — Quantum Computing ReportD-Wave Advantage2 beats 80x H100 cluster on routing; Quip adds blind QC + ZK proofs — X/@NekiWeb3New arXiv paper claims quantum advantage in prethermal dynamics sim on IBM + Quantinuum — X/@qhrantIonQ, Rigetti, and D-Wave Quantum Are Down 30% in a Month — Yahoo FinanceQED-C and Center for Quantum Networks Release Quantum Networking Roadmap — Quantum Computing ReportQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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.

AT&T expands its commercial deal with D-Wave after quantum annealing hardware reportedly cut a network optimization workload from an hour to under fifteen seconds, landing the same week D-Wave rang the Nasdaq opening bell and shares jumped over twenty percent. Also today: ZuriQ's seed round for two-dimensional trapped-ion chips, a new hybrid quantum-classical supercomputer coming to Pittsburgh, phonon-based qubit wiring from Warwick, Quantinuum's latest error-correction numbers, a Hong Kong banking readiness report, and a PsiQuantum construction update.Linked sources: AT&T Expands D-Wave Partnership — Quantum Computing ReportZuriQ Raises $25.5 Million — The Quantum InsiderPittsburgh Supercomputing Center Hybrid Supercomputer — The Quantum InsiderNew Quantum Chip Architecture Using Vibrations — Quantum Physics NewsQuantinuum Fault-Tolerant State Preparation — Quantum ZeitgeistHong Kong Banks Face Long Road to Quantum Security — The Quantum InsiderPsiQuantum Facility Progress — X/@AusAmbUSAQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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-money valuation — but is it a quantum win or an AI compression story wearing quantum's jacket? Plus: long-lived ytterbium ion states, a cat-state speedup from IonQ, a 2030 post-quantum crypto deadline for contractors, and a theoretical result on the quantum Zeno effect freezing computations as qubit counts grow.Linked sources: Multiverse Computing Announces Series C Fundraising Targeting up to $570 Million — The Quantum InsiderLong Live Ytterbium! Long-lived States Found in Trapped Ions — The Quantum InsiderIonQ study: qLDPC codes + cat states speed logical ops 3x — X/@quantum_nyangSecurosys Says U.S. Order Sets 2030 Deadline for Contractor Quantum Security — Quantum ZeitgeistIonQ: 'We don't need new physics' — trapped-ion scaling roadmap — X/@TechInnovationzHZDR Finds Frequent Disruptions Can Freeze Quantum Processes — Quantum ZeitgeistIonQ to Report Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results on August 5 — The Quantum InsiderBlueQubit uses AI to tackle quantum error correction bottleneck — X/@IntEngineeringQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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 eleven-hundred-patent haul back to the unsettled Alice-era doctrine that governs whether any quantum invention is patentable at all, and walk the sides — reformers, patent attorneys, software-patent skeptics, corporate consolidators, and China-watchers.Linked sources: Guest Post: Patentability of Quantum Computing Inventions — The Quantum InsiderIBM to Acquire HRL Laboratories to Power the Future of Quantum — IBM NewsroomIBM Acquires HRL Laboratories, Adds Silicon-Spin Qubits — NAND ResearchEarly USPTO decision suggests favorable treatment for quantum computing — Norton Rose FulbrightPatent Eligibility Restoration Act, S.1546 — Congress.govQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

This week's recap: IBM's historic stock crash collides with its biggest quantum acquisition in years, DARPA and DOE keep funding unproven architectures, and neutral atoms, photonics, and a new spin-qubit material quietly shape the field underneath the headlines.IBM to Acquire HRL Laboratories to Power the Future of Quantum — IBM Newsroom / Reuters / TQIIBM's historic stock crash reshapes its quantum narrative — Forbes / Yahoo Finance / TheStreet$125M DARPA Agreement Validates PsiQuantum's Quantum Designs — The Quantum InsiderNeutral Atom Plan Targets 1000-Qubit Quantum Processor by 2032 — Quantum Zeitgeist / arXivNorthwestern University quantum entanglement over busy telecom fiber — phys.org / NorthwesternSKKU-led Team Identifies 'Zinc Oxide Spin Qubit' — The Quantum Insider / phys.orgShould Big Blue Break Up? Will IBM Spin Off Its Quantum Division? — Quantum ZeitgeistHu and Colleagues Demonstrate 0.943 Efficiency Photonic Platform — Quantum ZeitgeistQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

IBM makes its biggest quantum strategy shift in years, acquiring Boeing and GM's HRL Laboratories to run silicon spin qubits alongside its superconducting bet — plus a $15M Bitcoin quantum-security consortium, a UK government reshuffle that leaves quantum policy homeless, and the field's latest hype-versus-backlash debate.Linked sources: IBM buys HRL Laboratories in shift to two-track quantum computing strategy — ReutersBitcoin Security Consortium launches with $15M for post-quantum crypto — X/@coinbaseIBM Adds Error Suppression Tool: Orbit From Quantum Elements — Quantum ZeitgeistThe UK Quantum Programme Risks Getting Lost In The Noise Of The DSIT Reshuffle — Quantum ZeitgeistMIT projects selected for funding under DOE's Genesis Mission — MIT NewsScott Aaronson on quantum hype vs. backlash — X/@carbonyxxxGoogle supremacy demo debate revived — X/@0xSoltyQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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, five-year quantum commitment. Plus: PsiQuantum's biggest-ever DARPA contract, Japan's new silicon-qubit alliance with Intel, entanglement over live telecom fiber, and more from around the quantum world.Linked sources: IBM to Acquire HRL Laboratories to Power the Future of Quantum — IBM Newsroom$125M DARPA Agreement Validates PsiQuantum's Quantum Designs — Quantum ZeitgeistHitachi, Intel and AIST Launch Silicon Quantum Computing Project — The Quantum InsiderNorthwestern Demonstrates Quantum Entanglement Over Busy Telecom Fiber — The Quantum InsiderTaiyi Quantum Raises $42 Million — The Quantum InsiderInfleqtion's Sqale System Targets 100 Logical Qubits — Quantum ZeitgeistEurope's Quantum Flagship Seeks Dedicated €3.5B Budget — Quantum ZeitgeistJPMorganChase Finds QAOA Shows Quantum Speedups — Quantum ZeitgeistQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.