This week's recap: Washington took minority equity stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum as part of a $300 million CHIPS Act funding push, IonQ used its Investor Day to detail a Bitcoin-cracking roadmap, and NEC quietly stepped back from quantum hardware. Plus the smaller stories that flew under the radar — SEALSQ's revenue jump, a Canadian cryogenics contract, a marquee UConn hire, and PsiQuantum's finalized CHIPS award.

• D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum Just Got $300 Million — The Motley Fool
• IonQ Uses Investor Day to Detail Superion Roadmap — The Quantum Insider
• NEC Halts Development of Quantum Computer Hardware — The Quantum Insider
• SEALSQ Reports H1 2026 Results — GlobeNewswire (SEALSQ press release)
• Qubic Secures $1.5 Million Canadian Government Contract — The Quantum Insider
• Renowned Expert Elevates UConn Quantum Research — UConn Today
• PsiQuantum Finalizes $100M U.S. Government Award — The Quantum Insider

Source links

• 01net.it
• @IonQ_Inc on X
• @PsiQuantum on X
• @QuantinuumQC on X
• @StockSavvyShay on X
• forklog.com
• quantumzeitgeist.com
• spaceq.ca
• thequantuminsider.com

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An open, crowdsourced contest of humans and AI agents claims it cut the estimated quantum cost of a key Bitcoin-cracking step by 86%, undercutting a Google benchmark — but the paper's own authors warn the comparison isn't apples-to-apples. Plus: Novo Holdings says quantum investors are overweight hardware, and Chalmers researchers find a 1,000x speedup for bosonic qubit operations.

• ECDSA.Fail paper — arXiv
• Researchers And AI Agents Cut Estimated Quantum Cost of Attacking Bitcoin Encryption by 86% — The Quantum Insider
• Novo Holdings Report: Quantum Investment Must Move Beyond Hardware to Build Applications — The Quantum Insider
• 1,000 times faster operations bring reliable quantum computing a step closer — Phys.org

Source links

• @infleqtion on X
• @NEARProtocol on X
• @nearprotocol on X
• @QuantinuumQC on X
• decrypt.co
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• tech.yahoo.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• thequantuminsider.com

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IonQ puts a precise number on breaking Bitcoin's encryption — and we check the hype against the roadmap. Plus IQM's staged path to logical qubits in Finland, an IBM-Lockheed quantum hub in Switzerland, a chemistry accuracy benchmark from Qedma, and Treasury's new bank-readiness task force.

• The First Full-Stack Blueprint for Breaking 256-bit Elliptic Curve Signatures — IonQ
• IQM Plans Logical-Qubit System for Finland's LUMI AI Factory — The Quantum Insider
• IBM, Lockheed Martin Announce Swiss Quantum Innovation Hub — IBM Newsroom
• Qedma and HQC2 Boost Quantum Chemistry Accuracy — Quantum Zeitgeist
• US Financial Sector Quantum Threat Prep Led by Quantum Readiness Task Force — Quantum Zeitgeist

Source links

• @IonQ_Inc on X
• cioinfluence.com
• lumi-supercomputer.eu

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• sec.gov
• @TechSpot on X
• interestingengineering.com
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• tipranks.com
• tradingview.com

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Two ways to solve the same quantum manufacturing bottleneck: Washington takes equity in three rival hardware companies via a $300M CHIPS Act deal, while IonQ bets its $1.8B SkyWater acquisition on owning the fab outright. Plus GlobalFoundries' own quantum manufacturing award and a Gordon Bell Prize finalist.

• D-Wave, Rigetti, Quantinuum land $300M CHIPS deal — Yahoo Finance
• IonQ launches Superion product line — IonQ.com
• GlobalFoundries wins $375M for quantum manufacturing — Quantum Zeitgeist
• Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN and IBM advance to Gordon Bell Prize finals — The Quantum Insider

Source links

• sec.gov
• @QuantinuumQC on X
• asktraders.com
• blockonomi.com
• newsable.asianetnews.com
• thequantuminsider.com

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More from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.

NEC has quietly stepped back from building its own superconducting quantum computer, citing an ROI timeline too long to justify the capital — while cross-town rival Fujitsu, with TU Delft and QuTech, unveiled a diamond-spin prototype and a 2030/2035 logical-qubit roadmap. Plus: Singapore and Luxembourg pledge deeper quantum cooperation, and a University of Surrey team proposes a superfluid-helium qubit design.

• NEC Discontinues Superconducting Quantum Computer Development — Quantum Computing Report
• Fujitsu develops diamond-spin quantum computer prototype — The Quantum Insider
• Singapore, Luxembourg Target Deeper Cooperation in Quantum, AI And Space — The Quantum Insider
• University of Surrey designs superfluid helium qubit — Quantum Zeitgeist

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Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

More from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.

NEC, the company behind the world's first superconducting qubit demonstration in 1999, has halted development of quantum computer hardware — while continuing annealing and quantum-inspired work on conventional machines. Plus: a new record for single-photon flux, and the G7's fresh warning on post-quantum cryptography.

• Japan's NEC scraps effort to build a quantum computer — Nikkei Asia
• NEC Halts Development of Quantum Computer Hardware — The Quantum Insider
• Sparrow Quantum Sets Record With 500 Million Usable Photons Per Second — The Quantum Insider
• Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action — ANSSI/G7

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• @NikkeiAsia on X
• digitimes.com
• thecyberexpress.com
• therecord.media

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A Sunday think piece on IBM veteran and ERVA co-chair Brian Gaucher's claim that quantum computing's real bottleneck has shifted from physics to engineering — pilot lines, standards, and workforce — and whether the error-correction literature and workforce data actually back that up.

• Brian Gaucher (ERVA): Why engineering, not physics, now limits quantum progress — The Quantum Insider
• Report: Engineering Research To Advance Quantum Technologies — ERVA
• New road map for engineering research to advance quantum technologies — National Science Foundation
• Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer — Physics Today
• Quantum Error Correction: A Full Stack Challenge — IEEE Computer Society
• Quantum Computing Challenges Holding Back Practical Quantum Computers — The Quantum Insider

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• bqpsim.com
• thequantuminsider.com

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This week's recap: an infrastructure-and-institutions week for quantum, from IBM's faster Nighthawk r2 chip and PsiQuantum's algorithm-development deal with Brookhaven Lab, to Quantinuum's Aramco MOU, Pasqal's blockbuster Nasdaq debut, and a wave of European and U.S. quantum manufacturing announcements.

• IBM's Nighthawk r2 Quantum Processor Targets a 25-Fold Increase in Circuit Speed — IBM Quantum Blog
• PsiQuantum and Brookhaven Lab Partner on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Algorithms — The Quantum Insider
• Quantinuum and Aramco Sign MOU to Explore Industrial Quantum Computing — Quantinuum
• Pasqal Shares Nearly Double in Nasdaq Debut — The Quantum Insider
• Europe Looks to Quantum Act to Turn Research Strength Into Industry — European Commission
• Quantum Foundry Copenhagen Plans 5,300-Square-Meter Chip Facility — The Next Web
• George Mason University Partners with TreQ to Install $7.7M Open-Architecture Quantum QPU — George Mason University
• Forschungszentrum Jülich Operates eleQtron's JION Trapped-Ion QPU via JUNIQ Infrastructure — HPCwire

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• @HPCwire on X
• @PsiQuantum on X
• hpcwire.com
• manilatimes.net
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• sg.news.yahoo.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• thequantuminsider.com

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