Two of Israel's best-funded quantum startups, Quantum Art and Classiq, are reportedly in advanced SPAC talks worth up to $5 billion each — we dig into the numbers and the skepticism. Plus: a superconducting quantum heat engine, a silicon qubit noise fix at QuTech, cheaper magic-state distillation out of France, Toyota's quantum bet on Yaqumo, Alice & Bob's error-correction cost comparison, and why that viral Willow clip isn't actually news.

• Israeli Quantum Startups Eye Wall Street as SPAC Interest Accelerates — The Quantum Insider
• World's first superconducting quantum heat engine — Phys.org / Aalto University
• QuTech Silicon Qubits Achieve 760µeV Valley Split — Quantum Zeitgeist
• Institut d'Optique: Quantum Codes for Efficient Non-Clifford Gate Circuits — Quantum Zeitgeist
• Alice & Bob on the Cost of Quantum Error Correction — Quantum Zeitgeist
• JIC Venture Growth and Toyota Invention Partners Join Yaqumo Round — The Quantum Insider
• Recirculated Neven/Willow commentary — X/@zodchiii

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