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August 10, 2026 — Congress Eyes $567 Million Quantum Defense Bump
Episode 36
Published 2 months ago
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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 — Bloomberg
- DARPA Selects IonQ to Produce Atomic Clocks — BusinessWire via Yahoo
- D-Wave Q2 2026 Results — SEC Filing
- Breaking the 100-Qubit Barrier: QFT at Scale on IBM Hardware — arXiv preprint
- Phase-change memory as a computational primitive — @QuantumTumbler on X
- Entangled Photons From Sunlight — Quantum Zeitgeist
- UCalgary Builds Secure Hub for Quantum Defence Innovation — Quantum Zeitgeist
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