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IonQ vs. Rigetti: Trapped Ions or Speed to Useful Quantum? — September 16, 2026
Episode 70
IonQ and Rigetti Computing get put head-to-head on accuracy versus speed, Beijing rolls out a quantum-industry matchmaking program, Silicon Quantum C…
3 weeks ago
Quantum's 100,000x Gap to Real Science — September 15, 2026
Episode 69
A new cross-vendor benchmark called QUOPS gives quantum computing its first apples-to-apples yardstick for progress — and finds current machines need…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Fortaegis Bets $50M That Security Lives in the Chip, Not the Code — September 14, 2026
Episode 68
Today: a Dutch security startup raises fifty million dollars betting that silicon fingerprints beat software cryptography in the quantum era, plus NV…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Uncle Sam as Shareholder: Smart Bet or Bubble Backstop? — September 13, 2026
Episode 67
A Sunday think piece: Washington has quietly become a shareholder in nine quantum computing companies through CHIPS Act equity deals. We dig into Rig…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Washington Buys a Stake in the Quantum Race — September 12, 2026
Episode 66
This week's recap: Washington took minority equity stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum as part of a $300 million CHIPS Act funding push, IonQ u…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
An Open Leaderboard Just Undercut Google's Bitcoin-Cracking Math — September 11, 2026
Episode 65
An open, crowdsourced contest of humans and AI agents claims it cut the estimated quantum cost of a key Bitcoin-cracking step by 86%, undercutting a …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
IonQ's Bitcoin-Cracking Math: Real Physics, Marketing Slide — September 10, 2026
Episode 64
IonQ puts a precise number on breaking Bitcoin's encryption — and we check the hype against the roadmap. Plus IQM's staged path to logical qubits in …
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Bonus: Meet Space Stakes
A bonus introduction from Quickly Quantum to Space Stakes, another daily show created by Brian Lampert. This cross-promotion features a short recomme…
4 weeks ago
Washington Owns $300M of Quantum Rivals; IonQ Bets $1.8B on Its Own Fab — September 9, 2026
Episode 63
Two ways to solve the same quantum manufacturing bottleneck: Washington takes equity in three rival hardware companies via a $300M CHIPS Act deal, wh…
4 weeks ago
NEC Exits Its Quantum Hardware Program as Fujitsu Bets on Diamond Spin — September 8, 2026
Episode 62
NEC has quietly stepped back from building its own superconducting quantum computer, citing an ROI timeline too long to justify the capital — while c…
4 weeks, 1 day ago