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August 29, 2026 — Quantum's SPAC Boom Meets a Real Court Loss
Episode 53
This week's recap: Pasqal's Nasdaq debut, Canada's massive bet on Xanadu, an Italian court dealing IBM a legal setback, crypto's growing quantum anxi…
1 month, 1 week ago
August 27, 2026 — IBM Buys a Rival Qubit's Home Lab
Episode 52
IBM has completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, pulling silicon-spin qubit expertise into a company that built its whole roadmap on supercondu…
1 month, 1 week ago
August 26, 2026 — Dead and Alive: Quantum Computing's Credibility Gap
Episode 51
Bloomberg's Mark Bergen asks whether quantum computing is finally arriving or still running on hype — real fidelity gains from Quantinuum and IonQ an…
1 month, 1 week ago
August 25, 2026 — Quantum Codebreaking Debate Heats Up: NSF's Big Bet, Caltech's AI
Episode 50
Linked sources: NSF Invests $290M in Eight Quantum Research Institutes — NSF.govLinked sources: Princeton to Lead Major Federally Funded Quantum Inst…
1 month, 1 week ago
August 24, 2026 — Japan Flips the Switch on a Full-Stack Neutral-Atom Machine
Episode 49
Japan's Institute for Molecular Science says its full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer, Shunkai, is operational — but the hard error-correction pr…
1 month, 1 week ago
August 22, 2026 — Weekly Recap: 70 Logical Qubits and the $2 Trillion Question
Episode 48
This week's recap: IBM and UChicago's 70-logical-qubit 'trusted' quantum advantage claim collides with a growing replication-crisis debate, while Bro…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
August 21, 2026 — Caltech's Quantum Sim Nails a 40-Year-Old Physics Call
Episode 47
Caltech says its team used a neutral-atom quantum simulator to directly measure forty-year-old conformal field theory predictions for the first time,…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
August 20, 2026 — Cornell's Krypton Fix: Tantalum Heat Drops From 400°C to 200°C
Episode 46
Cornell engineers swap argon for krypton gas and cut tantalum qubit deposition temperature from over 400°C to 200°C — a fabrication fix that could ma…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
August 19, 2026 — IBM's Cooling Milestone: Progress or Roadmap Theater?
Episode 45
IBM connects its first two modular cryogenic systems on the road to its 2029 Quantum Starling machine — real engineering, but does it retire the hard…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
August 18, 2026 — The Cross-Check: Quantum Advantage Gets a Rival's Stamp
Episode 44
Today's lead: an IBM/Qedma/RIKEN/BlueQubit quantum magnetism result gets cross-validated on Quantinuum's rival hardware, raising the bar for what cou…
1 month, 2 weeks ago