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July 25, 2026 — Weekly Recap: IBM's Crash Meets Its Quantum Gambit
Episode 20
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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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 / TQI
- IBM's historic stock crash reshapes its quantum narrative — Forbes / Yahoo Finance / TheStreet
- $125M DARPA Agreement Validates PsiQuantum's Quantum Designs — The Quantum Insider
- Neutral Atom Plan Targets 1000-Qubit Quantum Processor by 2032 — Quantum Zeitgeist / arXiv
- Northwestern University quantum entanglement over busy telecom fiber — phys.org / Northwestern
- SKKU-led Team Identifies 'Zinc Oxide Spin Qubit' — The Quantum Insider / phys.org
- Should Big Blue Break Up? Will IBM Spin Off Its Quantum Division? — Quantum Zeitgeist
- Hu and Colleagues Demonstrate 0.943 Efficiency Photonic Platform — Quantum Zeitgeist
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