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The Qubit Report: September 17, 2026

Anderon finalized a $1 billion CHIPS award for its Albany 300-millimeter quantum foundry as IBM stacked another $1 billion behind the same line. The same cycle closed a real-time QEC loop inside 12 microseconds, put constrained compilers on IBM’s catalog, and opened a Department of Energy contest worth up to $215 million for 100 logical qubits. Commercial terms, latency tables, survey splits, and the four PQC clocks that still disagree are in the links. Get all of this and more in today’s The Qubit Report.

September 17, 2026

The Qubit Report: September 10, 2026

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.

September 10, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending September 5, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up for the week ending September 5, 2026 tracks factories, racks, and post-quantum links moving at the same time. Pasqal signed a multi-year quantum-safe research pact with KACST in Riyadh. Canada put CAD $195 million behind Xanadu’s Inception photonics plant. IBM published Nighthawk r2 at 120 qubits and more than 100,000 circuits per second. Diraq reserved an Equinix cage in Sydney. Quantum-safe overlays flew on Es’hail-1 and a Greece-Cyprus satellite path.

September 4, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending August 29, 2026

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.

August 28, 2026

Pasqal and Eleven Ventures Establish Joint Venture for Quantum Systems in Saudi Arabia

Pasqal and Eleven Ventures have agreed to form a commercial joint venture that will deploy multiple neutral-atom quantum computing systems inside Saudi Arabia and across the broader MENA region. The partnership also prioritizes building local talent so quantum capability is developed within the Kingdom rather than accessed remotely. Strategic leadership will be provided by HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki Bin Talal as Chairman of Pasqal Arabia, with further technical and commercial details available in the full announcement.

August 26, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending August 22, 2026

Week Ending 21 | 8 | 2026. What a blockbuster week for quantum tech—hubs opening in Colorado and Austin, D-Wave production apps cutting real network load, IBM modular cryogenics online, Pasqal heading for Nasdaq, record 420 km entanglement, and post-quantum crypto now live on Akamai’s network. Read it now!

August 21, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending August 15, 2026

Pasqal moved atom trapping onto a photonic chip, Q-CTRL ran a 100-qubit Fourier Transform on IBM hardware, and Quantinuum parked Helios inside Oracle’s cloud. Utah formalized a statewide quantum initiative while Infleqtion doubled revenue and raised guidance. Post-quantum tools reached GSA schedules and live blockchains. This was the week hardware, software, and policy all accelerated together.

August 14, 2026

Pasqal Demonstrates On-Chip Atom Trapping with Photonic Integrated Circuit Toward Fault-Tolerant Scale

Pasqal has demonstrated trapping of individual rubidium atoms using laser light delivered and controlled by a photonic integrated circuit, which the company describes as a first for neutral-atom systems. The four independently addressable traps achieved atom lifetimes in line with existing bulk-optics platforms. Pasqal estimates the architecture can shrink optical hardware by up to 50 times en route to systems exceeding 10,000 atoms and 100 logical qubits.

August 10, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending July 18, 2026

Hardware pilot lines, error-rate milestones and industrial partnerships dominated the week. Governments and investors responded with fresh capital and incentives while the post-quantum cryptography stack advanced on multiple fronts. Space and Earth-observation applications moved from concept to installed hardware. The industry is visibly shifting from promise to pipeline.

July 18, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending July 11, 2026

This week delivered the kind of concrete progress that separates hype from execution. Keyfactor secured over $1B in growth capital while Qiz Security raised $17M to operationalize post-quantum cryptographic management. The White House Summit outlined more than $2.2B in coordinated support for fault-tolerant systems by 2028, and ORNL deployed a new 20-qubit IQM quantum computer for hybrid HPC workloads. Hardware, policy, and security all moved forward in the same seven days.

July 11, 2026

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