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
