July 29, 2026 — HRL's 18-Qubit Chip Corrects Its Own Errors
HRL Laboratories published a Nature paper showing an 18-qubit silicon processor that ran error correction entirely on its own, using a cryogenic control chip with no help from room-temperature electronics. Also today: IonQ closes its $1.8B SkyWater foundry acquisition, GlobalFoundries lands a $300M CHIPS letter of intent, Israel pushes for a national quantum R&D center, Anthropic's AI finds new cryptographic weaknesses, and a University of Zurich researcher claims a millionfold theoretical speedup for quantum walks.
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