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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, 3 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, 3 weeks ago
August 17, 2026 — Frolov vs. Microsoft: Quantum's Replication Crisis
Episode 43
Today's episode digs into a New Scientist feature revisiting Sergey Frolov's Science paper on failed Majorana zero-mode replications — physics centra…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
August 16, 2026 — The 2018 Verdict Still Haunting Quantum Machine Learning
Episode 42
This week a KAIST team showed that bound entanglement — real, provable quantum correlation that can't be distilled into clean entangled pairs — can't…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
August 15, 2026 — Weekly Recap: Quantinuum's Breakout Week Steals the Show
Episode 41
The weekly recap: Quantinuum's record earnings and Oracle Cloud deal send the stock soaring, Infleqtion and IonQ post strong quarters while D-Wave, R…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
August 14, 2026 — Oracle Bets on Quantinuum: Cloud Quantum's Real Test
Episode 40
Quantinuum's first earnings report as a public company landed alongside a multiyear Oracle Cloud Infrastructure partnership, sending shares up roughl…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
August 13, 2026 — Quantum's Cloud Moment: Infrastructure or Just Real Estate?
Episode 39
Quantinuum's Helios trapped-ion computer is moving into an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center under a new multi-year deal — the show's main stor…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
August 12, 2026 — Quantinuum's 279% Number, and the $597M Loss Underneath It
Episode 38
Quantinuum's first earnings report as a public company pairs a 279% revenue jump against a $597M GAAP loss, alongside a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructu…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
August 11, 2026 — Four Atoms, One Chip: Pasqal's Bid to Fix Quantum's Scaling Wall
Episode 37
Pasqal says it trapped rubidium atoms using laser light routed entirely through a photonic chip, a possible fix for neutral-atom computing's free-spa…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
August 10, 2026 — Congress Eyes $567 Million Quantum Defense Bump
Episode 36
Congress is moving to raise military quantum spending 68% to $567 million, with the same firms benefiting from doubled lobbying and political ties to…
1 month, 4 weeks ago