Quickly Quantum cover art

All Episodes

Quickly Quantum — 67 episodes

#
Title
1

Washington Buys a Stake in the Quantum Race — September 12, 2026

2

An Open Leaderboard Just Undercut Google's Bitcoin-Cracking Math — September 11, 2026

3

IonQ's Bitcoin-Cracking Math: Real Physics, Marketing Slide — September 10, 2026

4

Bonus: Meet Space Stakes

5

Washington Owns $300M of Quantum Rivals; IonQ Bets $1.8B on Its Own Fab — September 9, 2026

6

NEC Exits Its Quantum Hardware Program as Fujitsu Bets on Diamond Spin — September 8, 2026

7

Introducing Quickly Quantum

8

September 7, 2026 — NEC Walks Away From Quantum Hardware

9

September 6, 2026 — Physics or Plumbing: What's Actually Blocking Quantum Computing?

10

September 5, 2026 — The Week in Quantum: Foundries, MOUs, and a Nasdaq Pop

11

September 4, 2026 — IBM's Speed Record: Real Fix or Self-Graded Exam?

12

September 3, 2026 — 100,000 Circuits a Second: IBM's Speed Bet

13

September 2, 2026 — The Backup Copy Problem: Quantum Computing's Oldest Fix

14

August 31, 2026 — Pasqal Goes Public: Can France's Quantum Bet Deliver?

15

August 29, 2026 — Quantum's SPAC Boom Meets a Real Court Loss

16

August 27, 2026 — IBM Buys a Rival Qubit's Home Lab

17

August 26, 2026 — Dead and Alive: Quantum Computing's Credibility Gap

18

August 25, 2026 — Quantum Codebreaking Debate Heats Up: NSF's Big Bet, Caltech's AI

19

August 24, 2026 — Japan Flips the Switch on a Full-Stack Neutral-Atom Machine

20

August 22, 2026 — Weekly Recap: 70 Logical Qubits and the $2 Trillion Question

21

August 21, 2026 — Caltech's Quantum Sim Nails a 40-Year-Old Physics Call

22

August 20, 2026 — Cornell's Krypton Fix: Tantalum Heat Drops From 400°C to 200°C

23

August 19, 2026 — IBM's Cooling Milestone: Progress or Roadmap Theater?

24

August 18, 2026 — The Cross-Check: Quantum Advantage Gets a Rival's Stamp

25

August 17, 2026 — Frolov vs. Microsoft: Quantum's Replication Crisis

26

August 16, 2026 — The 2018 Verdict Still Haunting Quantum Machine Learning

27

August 15, 2026 — Weekly Recap: Quantinuum's Breakout Week Steals the Show

28

August 14, 2026 — Oracle Bets on Quantinuum: Cloud Quantum's Real Test

29

August 13, 2026 — Quantum's Cloud Moment: Infrastructure or Just Real Estate?

30

August 12, 2026 — Quantinuum's 279% Number, and the $597M Loss Underneath It

31

August 11, 2026 — Four Atoms, One Chip: Pasqal's Bid to Fix Quantum's Scaling Wall

32

August 10, 2026 — Congress Eyes $567 Million Quantum Defense Bump

33

August 9, 2026 — Uncloneable Encryption Grows Up: From One Bit to Real Messages

34

August 8, 2026 — Weekly Recap: Quantum's Advantage Claim and a $1.8 Billion Bet

35

August 7, 2026 — Did Amazon Just Find a Crack in Post-Quantum Crypto?

36

August 6, 2026 — Microsoft's Quantum Chief Doesn't Care Who Doubts Him

37

August 5, 2026 — IonQ's Third MOU in Five Days: Moat or Marketing?

38

August 4, 2026 — Oratomic's $300M Bet: Do 10,000 Qubits Beat Millions?

39

August 3, 2026 — China's Quantum Standards Play Meets the West's Chokepoint Strategy

40

August 2, 2026 — The Werner-State Race: AI, Humans, and One Open Problem

41

August 1, 2026 — Weekly Recap: Does IBM's Advantage Claim Actually Hold Up?

42

July 31, 2026 — IBM's Quantum Advantage Papers Face the Trust Test

43

July 30, 2026 — IBM's Triple Quantum Advantage Claim Faces the Tracker

44

July 29, 2026 — HRL's 18-Qubit Chip Corrects Its Own Errors

45

July 28, 2026 — AT&T's Quantum Speedup: One Hour to Fifteen Seconds

46

July 27, 2026 — Multiverse's $570M Round: Quantum Cred or AI Hype?

47

July 26, 2026 — Who Owns a Quantum Algorithm?

48

July 25, 2026 — Weekly Recap: IBM's Crash Meets Its Quantum Gambit

49

July 24, 2026 — IBM's Second Qubit Bet: Buying HRL Labs

50

July 23, 2026 — IBM's $10B Quantum Bet Adds HRL Labs

51

July 22, 2026 — Hewlett Foundation's $100 Million Bet on Quantum Security

52

July 21, 2026 — Google's Self-Calibrating Qubits: A Live 31% Error Cut

53

July 20, 2026 — Britain's Quantum Gamble Meets a New Prime Minister's Axe

54

July 19, 2026 — The NISQ Trap: Was Quantum Advantage Doomed From the Start?

55

July 18, 2026 — IBM's 25% Plunge Meets Quantinuum's Anyon Breakthrough

56

July 17, 2026 — IBM's $67 Billion Wipeout — and Its $10B Quantum Bet

57

July 16, 2026 — Quantinuum's Anyon Fusion Trick Chases Universal Quantum Gates

58

Ep 10: IBM's $10 Billion Quantum Bet Survives a 25% Stock Drop

59

Ep 9: Can an Ordinary Chip Factory Build a Quantum Computer?

60

Ep 8: Israel's $5 Billion Quantum SPAC Bet

61

Ep 7: Is Quantum's $12.6B Boom a Bubble or a Breakthrough?

62

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

63

Ep 5: Oratomic's $300M Bet That Fault Tolerance Needs 10,000 Qubits, Not Millions

64

Ep 4: Google's Self-Calibrating Willow Chip Hits a New Error Record

65

Ep 3: Quantum's Next Leap: Real Physics or Just a Really Good Pitch?

66

Ep 2: IBM Tells Washington It's Thinking Too Small on Quantum

67

Ep 1: Fusion, FLiBe, and a $12.6 Billion Quantum Funding Flip