Episode Details

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 Relations
• IonQ earnings coverage — BigGo Finance
• D-Wave's dual-rail entangling gate — D-Wave (Business Wire)
• D-Wave Nature paper details — HPCwire
• Entangled photons across 62km of fiber — NIST
• DARPA's quantum manufacturing pivot — The Quantum Insider
• DARPA optical clock manufacturing program — Quantum Zeitgeist
• Victor Peng on Bloomberg TV — Bloomberg
• Microsoft's Majorana bet — Science (AAAS)
• Skeptics on Microsoft's topological qubit — Scientific American

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