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July 30, 2026 — IBM's Triple Quantum Advantage Claim Faces the Tracker
Episode 25
IBM rolls out three coordinated quantum advantage demonstrations — with Algorithmiq, the University of Chicago, and Qedma — and opens them to public,…
2 months, 1 week ago
July 29, 2026 — HRL's 18-Qubit Chip Corrects Its Own Errors
Episode 24
HRL Laboratories published a Nature paper showing an 18-qubit silicon processor that ran error correction entirely on its own, using a cryogenic cont…
2 months, 1 week ago
July 28, 2026 — AT&T's Quantum Speedup: One Hour to Fifteen Seconds
Episode 23
AT&T expands its commercial deal with D-Wave after quantum annealing hardware reportedly cut a network optimization workload from an hour to under fi…
2 months, 1 week ago
July 27, 2026 — Multiverse's $570M Round: Quantum Cred or AI Hype?
Episode 22
Multiverse Computing just closed one of the biggest funding rounds ever for a company with 'quantum' in its story — $570 million at a $1.7 billion pr…
2 months, 1 week ago
July 26, 2026 — Who Owns a Quantum Algorithm?
Episode 21
This Sunday's think piece asks a question the IBM-HRL headlines skipped: can you actually patent a quantum algorithm? We trace the acquisition's elev…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
July 25, 2026 — Weekly Recap: IBM's Crash Meets Its Quantum Gambit
Episode 20
This week's recap: IBM's historic stock crash collides with its biggest quantum acquisition in years, DARPA and DOE keep funding unproven architectur…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
July 24, 2026 — IBM's Second Qubit Bet: Buying HRL Labs
Episode 19
IBM makes its biggest quantum strategy shift in years, acquiring Boeing and GM's HRL Laboratories to run silicon spin qubits alongside its supercondu…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
July 23, 2026 — IBM's $10B Quantum Bet Adds HRL Labs
Episode 18
IBM adds Boeing and GM's spin-qubit lab HRL Laboratories to its quantum arsenal, a move that hedges its superconducting bet as part of its $10 billio…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
July 22, 2026 — Hewlett Foundation's $100 Million Bet on Quantum Security
Episode 17
The Hewlett Foundation commits $100 million over five years to security research across AI, biotech, and quantum computing, landing the same week the…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
July 21, 2026 — Google's Self-Calibrating Qubits: A Live 31% Error Cut
Episode 16
Google Quantum AI and DeepMind show a reinforcement-learning agent can recalibrate a quantum chip's controls live, mid-error-correction — cutting log…
2 months, 2 weeks ago