August 27, 2026 — IBM Buys a Rival Qubit's Home Lab
IBM has completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, pulling silicon-spin qubit expertise into a company that built its whole roadmap on superconducting circuits — is it a hedge, or just insurance? Plus: EuroHPC's thirteen startup picks, a trapped-ion fidelity fix from LLNL and NIST, Sabine Hossenfelder amplifying a Bloomberg piece on quantum hype versus cyber risk, and funding news from ColibriTD and Diraq.
IBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories — The Quantum Insider
EuroHPC Selects 13 European QPU Startups — Quantum Computing Report
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