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Weekly Recap: $215M and 2028 Set Quantum's Clock — October 3, 2026
Description
This weekly recap follows the push to put quantum computing on concrete timelines, from federal security measures to logical-qubit targets. It also looks at an IBM benchmark claim and a quantum-enhanced energy forecasting program, with attention to what each result does and does not establish.
- US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028 — SingularityHub
- Infleqtion post on Riverlane MOU — X/@infleqtion
- Microsoft and DARPA testing post — X/@skdh
- IBM Nighthawk r2 experiment summary — X/@OwenGregorian
- Infleqtion logical-qubit post — X/@infleqtion
- SQC and Schneider Electric Advance Quantum-Enhanced Energy Forecasting — The Quantum Insider
Chapters
00:00 Today's headlines
01:05 DOE sets 2028 quantum computer challenge
02:29 NSA post-quantum deadlines for security planning
03:30 Company builds gate-model simulator beta
04:24 Infleqtion Riverlane MOU on logical qubits
05:37 Microsoft Majorana qubits DARPA testing
06:37 IBM random-circuit sampling result and its caveat
08:06 Infleqtion targets 100 logical qubits by 2028
09:00 SQC Schneider Stage 2 on forecasting
10:31 Closing recap on the week in quantum
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