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Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending October 17, 2026

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.

October 17, 2026

The Qubit Report: October 15, 2026

Google Quantum AI cut magic-state errors fortyfold on Willow while D-Wave delivered Italy’s first annealing system to Como. The same day brought PQC migration timelines from Germany and Singapore plus fresh capital for neutral-atom and photonic startups. The wrap-up has the figures, the deadlines, and the source list.

October 15, 2026

The Qubit Report: October 14, 2026

IonQ priced a $2.0 billion equity offering while Qilimanjaro closed nearly €20 million in its Series A with Indra and Spanish SETT capital. The same cycle brought Quantum Computing Inc. its first pharma customer via INmune Bio’s Dirac-3S work on XPro, SEALSQ’s ML-KEM attack research plus new chips, and Anderon’s superconducting quantum PDK. The wrap-up has the figures, the countermeasures, and the source list.

October 14, 2026

The Qubit Report: October 12, 2026

IonQ agreed to acquire Elisity for up to $1.3 billion while SEALSQ unveiled VaultIC409 and WISeSat advanced post-quantum satellite links. The same day Imperial showcased quantum tech in San Francisco, Vietnam and France discussed Pasqal cooperation, and MIT outlined a hybrid fermion-boson toolkit. The wrap-up has the deal terms, the chip counts, and the source list.

October 12, 2026

IonQ to Acquire Elisity in Up to $1.3 Billion Deal to Advance Quantum Security

IonQ will acquire Elisity in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3 billion to integrate quantum security capabilities with enterprise Zero Trust microsegmentation. The combination supports US federal and critical infrastructure efforts to migrate to post-quantum cryptography under the June 22, 2026 Executive Order. Closing is targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026 subject to

October 12, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending October 10, 2026

Week Ending October 10, 2026. Oratomic hit a $5.4 billion valuation after a $475 million Series B while Universal Quantum closed the largest UK quantum Series A and DARPA advanced four companies to final-stage testing. IonQ’s 1 kHz memory interconnect and a $150 million conditional loan to PsiQuantum showed capital and checkpoints arriving together. Read it now!

October 11, 2026

The Qubit Report: October 7, 2026

The Qubit Report: October 7, 2026 Quantum computing news is a slog with worse decoherence than your attention span. Dip your whiskers in The Qubit

October 7, 2026

Quantum is On in Chattanooga: Quantum in Business Showcases How Companies are Putting Quantum Technologies to Work

EPB Quantum drew more than 450 business leaders to the Quantum in Business conference in Chattanooga on October 1, 2026. The utility and IonQ used the day to launch CQ Connect, a webinar series with tracks for biotech, insurance, finance, manufacturing, chemicals, and logistics. The full note covers the Synopsys runtime figures, the Kirq trial, and the Vanderbilt and UTC talent plans.

October 2, 2026

The Qubit Report: October 1, 2026

WISeKey reported about $11.4 million in first-half revenue and a $36.4 million net loss while Quanome’s CEO offered up to $15 million in non-dilutive capital. EPB put an IonQ Forte Enterprise on the floor in Chattanooga as Europe put €47.5 million behind a full-stack quantum network. The wrap-up has the figures, the beta that is still a simulator, and the source list.

October 1, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending September 26, 2026

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.

September 27, 2026

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