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.
Oratomic’s Series B put a $5.4 billion valuation on a Pasadena neutral-atom startup that has raised $775 million since March. The same day Universal Quantum closed a $100 million Series A, and Washington signed a $150 million conditional loan commitment with PsiQuantum that is not cash received. The pages behind the stickers, the MOU, and the 2028 target are the part worth clicking.
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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.
Immanuel Bloch shares the 2026 Wolf Prize while FeBI Technologies lands $2.2 million for a quantum iron test aimed at First Nations clinics. The same desk cut an Oak Ridge fluid-dynamics circuit by 95 percent and watched WISeSat.Space open on Nasdaq as SAIQ. The wrap-up has the separability number, the grant fine print, and the source list.
IQM reserved about 2.8 million shares for new staff plans while Diraq booked a measurement lab at Albuquerque’s Roadrunner Quantum Lab. The same cycle put Classiq’s surface-code engine in an SDK, a three-year BTQ-Kaia wallet deal, and a C12-Thales radar award on one calendar. The wrap-up has the figures, the MOUs that are still only MOUs, and the source list.
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!
Fairfax County Public Schools plans to put an operational XeedQ quantum computer in Skyview High School this December, with student work starting in spring 2027. The same day Quobly added CEA-Leti FAMES access, Quantonation and Deep Ocean Capital put a €1 million SAFE into QSENSATO, and a six-association survey said 90 percent of quantum firms still buy at least one part abroad. Read the commercial details, the classroom timeline, and the supply-chain numbers before the next briefing.
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.
IonQ will put a Superion 256 at NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center, with reporting pointing to a 2027 install next to a GB200 NVL72. Microsoft opened 15,000 square feet in Discovery District Maryland for Majorana 2 tests with DARPA, while a six-consortium survey found 90 percent of quantum firms buy at least one part abroad. Click for the QICK makerspace, the 104 NGCC findings, and the gas-network run on Forte-1.