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August 27, 2026 — IBM Buys a Rival Qubit's Home Lab
Episode 52
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
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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 Insider
- EuroHPC Selects 13 European QPU Startups — Quantum Computing Report
- Ramped Fields Create More Robust Trapped-Ion Entanglement — Quantum Physics News
- Quantum Computers Promise Breakthroughs But Risk a Cybersecurity Crisis — Bloomberg
- ColibriTD Raises €4M to Expand Quantum Simulation Software — The Quantum Insider
- Diraq Launches Engineering Hub in Santa Monica — Quantum Computing Report
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