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August 9, 2026 — Uncloneable Encryption Grows Up: From One Bit to Real Messages
Episode 35
This Sunday's think piece takes on quantum cryptography's strangest promise: uncloneable encryption, which uses the no-cloning theorem to make copyin…
2 months ago
August 8, 2026 — Weekly Recap: Quantum's Advantage Claim and a $1.8 Billion Bet
Episode 34
The week that was: IBM stakes a claim to a quantum 'advantage era' as critics question the framing, IonQ and D-Wave post record bookings alongside re…
2 months ago
August 7, 2026 — Did Amazon Just Find a Crack in Post-Quantum Crypto?
Episode 33
An AWS cryptographer's preliminary quantum algorithm takes aim at the lattice math behind post-quantum encryption, while IonQ's earnings spook invest…
2 months ago
August 6, 2026 — Microsoft's Quantum Chief Doesn't Care Who Doubts Him
Episode 32
IonQ posts a record quarter and raises guidance, D-Wave claims a tenfold path to lower quantum error rates, NIST sends entangled photons across ordin…
2 months ago
August 5, 2026 — IonQ's Third MOU in Five Days: Moat or Marketing?
Episode 31
IonQ signs its third government-and-industry MOU in five days, this time with Sandia National Laboratories, prompting a hard look at whether the patt…
2 months ago
August 4, 2026 — Oratomic's $300M Bet: Do 10,000 Qubits Beat Millions?
Episode 30
Caltech and the neutral-atom startup Oratomic unveiled new 'mitten' quantum error-correction codes today, reigniting the debate over whether cryptogr…
2 months ago
August 3, 2026 — China's Quantum Standards Play Meets the West's Chokepoint Strategy
Episode 29
Two co-leads on the same quantum geopolitics fight: China stands up a national quantum standards committee modeled on its 5G playbook, while a new II…
2 months, 1 week ago
August 2, 2026 — The Werner-State Race: AI, Humans, and One Open Problem
Episode 28
Three independent teams solved a famous twenty-year-old open problem in quantum information theory — the two-copy distillability of Werner states — w…
2 months, 1 week ago
August 1, 2026 — Weekly Recap: Does IBM's Advantage Claim Actually Hold Up?
Episode 27
The weekly recap: IBM and the University of Chicago claim a verified quantum advantage while longtime skeptic Gil Kalai makes his case for why noise …
2 months, 1 week ago
July 31, 2026 — IBM's Quantum Advantage Papers Face the Trust Test
Episode 26
IBM and a coalition of research partners published three peer-reviewed papers claiming 'trusted' quantum advantage — with open circuits for anyone to…
2 months, 1 week ago