Weekly Recap: $215M and 2028 Set Quantum's Clock — October 3, 2026
This weekly recap follows the push to put quantum computing on concrete timelines, from federal security measures to logical-qubit targets. It also looks at an IBM benchmark claim and a quantum-enhanced energy forecasting program, with attention to what each result does and does not establish.
US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028 — SingularityHub
Infleqtion post on Riverlane MOU — X/@infleqtion
Microsoft and DARPA testing post — X/@skdh
IBM Nighthawk r2 experiment summary — X/@OwenGregorian
Infleqtion logical-qubit post — X/@infleqtion
SQC and…
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