Quantinuum’s Helios hit 99.9995 percent logical fidelity, a 10x jump. NVIDIA ran a 104-qubit fault-tolerant simulation on JUPITER. Crypto custody and U.S. certification both face the same clock. This and more are all part of today’s The Qubit Report.
IonQ locked in up to $1.3 billion for Elisity and priced a $2 billion equity offering while Orca Computing switched on a room-temperature photonic system in a London data center that improved protein design yields. Governments in Singapore and Germany set hard migration deadlines for quantum-safe cryptography, and researchers posted fresh fidelity numbers on silicon and superconducting hardware. The full week shows cash, hardware, and policy all moving at once.
Quantum Computing Wrap-Up for October 13, 2026. Infleqtion UK locked £9 million to field a quantum RF direction finder. Rice University shipped a monolithic ion trap that handles heavy ions. SEALSQ detailed a side-channel attack on ML-KEM key generation plus countermeasures. Researchers coded the first working post-quantum layer for Bitcoin Lightning. Gemini 4 Argon cut quantum algorithm costs more than 100 times while advancing fusion and robotics. D-Wave and SkyWater extended their Minnesota fab partnership.
Australia’s stage-two quantum grants total $12.3 million, not the $123 million sitting in the URL slug, the same day Xanadu and GlobalFoundries called a manufacturing partnership. Forescout says only 31 percent of exposed hospital systems support TLS 1.3, and SEALSQ’s $10 million WISeSat PIPE is a related-party deal. The gene-search ‘16.8x’ is a GPU simulator result, and the excerpt stops before the method.
Quantum eMotion proposed a C$33.8 million plan of arrangement for Plurilock as AQT joined Germany’s €122 million NFQC-1k drive toward 50 logical qubits. Albuquerque opened the 35,000-square-foot Roadrunner Quantum Lab to twelve tenants while Cloudflare put IPsec downgrade protection and a Merkle Tree CA into the post-quantum queue. Read the wrap-up for … these stories and many more!
Infleqtion entangled 30 logical qubits on 80 physical atoms this week while IonQ parked Superion 256 as the first QPU at NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center. Germany selected QUDORA for a €122 million 1,000-qubit ion-trap pilot line and planqc for a competition funded up to €640 million. Click through for Taiwan’s 150-qubit RFP, Japan’s Shunkai room-temperature stack, QShield 2.0, and 104 findings against China’s first NGCC PQC round. Plus much more in this TQR week-ending summary.
Infleqtion entangled 30 logical qubits on 80 physical atoms aboard Sqale, while Germany selected a QUDORA-led consortium for a €122 million 1,000-qubit trapped-ion pilot line. The same day, EU financial watchdogs warned Q-Day could arrive before commercial quantum utility, and Florida International University booked an IonQ Superion 256 for late 2027. The wrap-up has the H1 ledgers, the Shunkai rack, and the migration clocks behind those headlines.
Anderon, an IBM company, finalized a $1 billion CHIPS award to scale a U.S. 300 mm quantum wafer foundry, while the Department of Energy opened the Quantum Genesis Q Competition with up to $215 million aimed at 100 logical qubits. EPB switched on an IonQ Forte Enterprise in Chattanooga, and IQM booked South America’s first on-prem system for Brazil’s Eldorado Institute. Click through for Riverlane’s microsecond QEC loop, Infleqtion’s 5.4-to-1 encoding construction, Quobly’s industrial silicon gates, and Thales Luna 8. And much more.
IBM and Lockheed Martin set a Swiss quantum hub with ETH Zurich, and a System Two bound for Lugano is due at CSCS by year-end 2026. LUMI AI Factory booked IQM’s Halocene path in Kajaani for 150 physical qubits in 2027 and as many as 9 logical qubits on H5 in 2029, while Cloudflare began validating 2,420-byte ML-DSA-44 DNSSEC on 1.1.1.1. Full briefing adds NIST TES nuclear X-ray counts, an Air Force MagNav hop with 89 percent lower backup error, and source-level caveats on staged logical-qubit claims. There’s a heck of a lot more inside.
Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up for the week ending August 29, 2026 captures the week quantum computing became a public-market and public-policy story at the same time. Pasqal listed on Nasdaq with €309 million in cash. IBM closed its HRL Laboratories acquisition. NSF put $290 million behind eight Quantum Leap institutes, and Treasury stood up a financial-sector Quantum-Readiness Task Force. Field trials from Q-CTRL and SuperQ, plus Pasqal’s Saudi joint venture, made the laboratory feel far away.