Ep 6: The Week Quantum Became a $2 Billion Bet on Industrial Policy
This week, quantum computing fully collided with Wall Street and Washington: IQM's Nasdaq debut, a $2 billion CHIPS Act incentive package for nine companies, and Oratomic's eyebrow-raising $300 million bet that fault tolerance needs only 10,000-20,000 qubits, not millions. Plus: Google's self-correcting Willow chip, an Oak Ridge/IBM fusion-materials calculation that moved IBM's stock, and hardware stories that slipped through the cracks — electron-on-helium qubits, a new silicon readout sensor, and the accelerating post-quantum cryptography migration.
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