Quickly Quantum

A Swiss post-quantum chip MoU, a D-Wave board move, a Chicago reality-check, and IonQ-Ansys in LS-DYNA.

• SEALSQ, WISeKey and Jura Sign MoU for Swiss Post-Quantum Semiconductor Center — The Quantum Insider
• @dwavequantum on X — X/@dwavequantum
• Editorial: Quantum is not AI, folks, and Chicago is not building a lakefront data center - Chicago Tribune
• IonQ and Ansys speed up HPC simulation using quantum computing - scientific-computing.com — scientific-computing.com

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• thequantuminsider.com

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.

The weekly recap: PsiQuantum's CHIPS Act award goes final, a new benchmark humbles the whole industry, DOE launches a $215 million fault-tolerance prize, EPB fires up a trapped-ion computer in Chattanooga, and Diraq wires Dell's hardware straight into its Sydney lab.

• Department of Commerce Announces Finalization of CHIPS R&D Award — NIST
• New benchmark puts quantum computers to the test and reveals their limitations — Quantum Physics News
• EPB Launches IonQ Forte Enterprise Quantum Computer — Chattanoogan.com
• DOE Launches Quantum Genesis Q Competition — U.S. Department of Energy
• Diraq and Dell Technologies Partner on Silicon QPU Integration — Quantum Zeitgeist

Source links

• digiconasia.net
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• quantumzeitgeist.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• timesfreepress.com

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.

DOE launches a milestone-based prize race toward fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2028 — plus surface-code scaling on IBM hardware, a real-world IonQ/Synopsys engineering benchmark, an EigenQ SPAC raise, and a new QKD security proof out of Waterloo.

• DOE launches competition to accelerate development of world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer — U.S. Department of Energy
• Guest Post: The Quantum Inflection Point — The Quantum Insider
• USC and Quantum Elements Demonstrate Surface Code Scaling on IBM Heavy-Hex Processors — Quantum Computing Report
• IonQ and Synopsys Accelerate CAE Workloads by 14.6% via Trapped-Ion Hardware — Quantum Computing Report
• EigenQ Secures $45 Million Financing Ahead of Planned Nasdaq Listing — The Quantum Insider
• University of Waterloo QKD Security Proof — Quantum Zeitgeist

Source links

• @ENERGY on X
• @IonQ_Inc on X
• @ionq_inc on X
• @whostp47 on X
• hpcwire.com
• powermag.com
• quantumzeitgeist.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• yahoo.com

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.

Today: IBM's quantum foundry spinout Anderon finalizes a $1 billion CHIPS Act award, matched by IBM, to build a neutral wafer fab for the industry — but no rival has signed on yet. Plus an AI that writes quantum circuits, Riverlane's new Maryland HQ, IQM's first South American machine, and a room-temperature atom record out of Stuttgart.

• Anderon Finalizes $1 Billion CHIPS Act Award — IBM Newsroom
• Riverlane Establishes U.S. Headquarters in Maryland — The Quantum Insider
• IQM to Deploy Quantum Computer in Brazil — The Quantum Insider
• Circular Rydberg Atoms Set Three Records — Quantum Physics News
• Planckian Selected Among 13 Firms for EuroHPC's Quantum Push — Quantum Zeitgeist

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• @IonQ_Inc on X
• govconwire.com
• prnewswire.com
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• thequantuminsider.com
• tomshardware.com

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.

A bonus introduction from Quickly Quantum to Concrete Compute, another daily show created by Brian Lampert. This cross-promotion features a short recommendation in this show’s voice, followed by the Concrete Compute trailer.

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This is a bonus introduction. The regular Quickly Quantum briefing remains on its usual schedule.

IonQ and Rigetti Computing get put head-to-head on accuracy versus speed, Beijing rolls out a quantum-industry matchmaking program, Silicon Quantum Computing hires a semiconductor-industry CFO, Mitsubishi Electric backs quantum startup OptQC, and Multiverse Computing debuts an AI model built partly on quantum-generated data.

• IonQ vs. Rigetti Computing: Which Pure-Play Quantum Stock Actually Has the Technology Edge? — The Motley Fool
• Beijing Launches Program to Connect Quantum Companies With Industrial Customers — The Quantum Insider
• SQC Appoints John Hollister as Chief Financial Officer — The Quantum Insider
• Mitsubishi Electric invests in quantum computing startup OptQC — Evertiq
• CompactifAI's Quasar 1.1 438B is first AI rebuilt with quantum inputs — Quantum Zeitgeist

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• @MultiverseCompu on X
• fool.com

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• @IonQ_Inc on X
• @IonQ_Inc on X

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.

A new cross-vendor benchmark called QUOPS gives quantum computing its first apples-to-apples yardstick for progress — and finds current machines need roughly a hundred-thousand-fold performance jump to reach useful scientific work. Plus: NVIDIA's CUDA-Q Logical platform expansion, IonQ's haul at IEEE Quantum Week, and a proposed $500M Canadian chip fab.

• QUOPS benchmark paper — arXiv (Proctor et al.)
• Introducing QUOPS — Quantinuum
• Quantum Computers Need 100,000-Fold Performance Gain — The Quantum Insider
• NVIDIA Expands Open-Source CUDA-Q Platform — NVIDIA Newsroom
• IonQ Demonstrates Hybrid HPC and Quantum-AI Workflows — Quantum Computing Report
• Photonic Unveils Project VANGUARD — GlobeNewswire
• GPU-Accelerated Digital Twin for Quantum Sensors — Quantum Computing Report

Source links

• @flexithomsen on X
• @IngrahamAngle on X
• @ingrahamangle on X
• @IonQ_Inc on X
• @IonQ_Inc on X
• @nvidianewsroom on X
• @qtumanalysis on X
• @quantinuumqc on X
• quantumzeitgeist.com
• thequantuminsider.com

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.

Today: a Dutch security startup raises fifty million dollars betting that silicon fingerprints beat software cryptography in the quantum era, plus NVIDIA and Quantum Machines link qubits to GPUs in a millionth of a second, Quantinuum entangles two error-correction codes, Europe pairs its research fiber network with quantum-networking experts, and a 12,635-atom protein sets a new simulation scale.

• Fortaegis Raises $50 Million to Commercialize Chip-Based Security Technology — The Quantum Insider
• Quantum Machines Makes Quantum Computers Easier to Program With NVIDIA CUDA-Q And NVQLink — The Quantum Insider
• Heterogenous QEC codes boost efficiency in Quantinuum's Helix architecture — Quantum Zeitgeist
• GÉANT and Quantum Internet Alliance Partner to Advance European Quantum Networking Architecture — Quantum Computing Report
• RIKEN protein model reaches 12,635 atoms using quantum-classical computing — Quantum Zeitgeist

Source links

• @PhysRevLett on X
• quantumcomputingreport.com
• quantumnews.in
• resiliencemedia.co
• techzine.eu

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• @physrevlett on X

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.

A Sunday think piece: Washington has quietly become a shareholder in nine quantum computing companies through CHIPS Act equity deals. We dig into Rigetti's SEC filing, the Intel precedent, and the fight between the 'entrepreneurial state' case for taxpayer equity and free-market warnings about politicized investment.

• Rigetti Computing Form 8-K — U.S. SEC EDGAR
• Trump's Presidential Portfolio Goes Quantum — Cato Institute
• Martin Shkreli criticism of quantum equity stakes — Benzinga
• D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum Just Got $300 Million From Washington — The Motley Fool
• D-Wave, Rigetti, Quantinuum land $100M each in CHIPS Act funding — Quantz

Source links

• cnbc.com
• fool.com
• foreignpolicyjournal.com
• manufacturingdive.com
• startupfortune.com
• tradingview.com

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.

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

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.