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Zapata's back, Basque goes Quantum, Public quantum stocks tumble.. or not - The Week in Quantum Computing, October 20th, 2025
Zapata Quantum may be back after completed phase one of its restructure: raised $3 million in secured convertible bridge note. LuxQuanta raised €8…
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Sergio Gago
Nobel, IBM, Qipu, IonQ, QCI - The Week in Quantum Computing, October 6th, 2025
The quantum sector hit a major inflection point this week, validating its transition from theory to industry: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics honored…
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Sergio Gago
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Harvard’s Forever Machine, Google’s Big Buy, and Denmark’s War Chest - The Week in Quantum Computing, October 6th, 2025
This wasn’t just another week of incremental qubit counts. The signal from the noise was deafening, and it all pointed directly at neutral atoms. In a…
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Sergio Gago

September 2025

Quantum Advantage Battles: Qubit Supremacy and Banking Hype. Caltech goes over 3000 - The Week in Quantum Computing, September 29th 2025
Researchers at Caltech have engineered a neutral atom device with 6,100 ultracold caesium atom qubits, surpassing the previous 1,180-qubit record from…
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Sergio Gago
Quantinuum, Quantum Motion, NIST, Shor - The Week in Quantum Computing, September 22nd, 2025
Quantinuum achieved the largest experimental simulation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model on a quantum computer, simulating 24 Majorana fermions on its…
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Sergio Gago
Infleqtion, PsiQuantum, Nvidia, IonQ, IQM - The Week in Quantum Computing, September 15th
More money in September! PsiQuantum reached a $7 billion valuation after its latest funding round and announced a partnership with Nvidia, leveraging…
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Sergio Gago
Norway, Quantinuum, IQM, Japan, Oak Ridge - The Week in Quantum Computing, September 8th
More big investments this week, public and private! Norway's government, under Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, announced an unprecedented minimum…
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Sergio Gago
The Week in Quantum Computing, August 25th
Big government defence funding alert! Silicon Quantum Computing secured a seven-figure contract with the Australian Department of Defence for its…
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Sergio Gago

August 2025

Qunova, Strangeworks & Quantagonia, Xanadu, Orca, Terra Quantum, Quantinuum and the lot- The Week in Quantum Computing, August 25th
Did you want to go on holidays this summer? Lucky you, because the quantum industry did not. (If you happened to be in a hot place, working next to a…
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Sergio Gago
Quanta and Quantinuum, Caltech, Riverlane China neutralizes atoms, Qunova - The Week in Quantum Computing, August 18th
This week’s quantum computing news highlighted significant progress across investment, research, and commercial readiness. Quanta Computer invested…
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Sergio Gago
Amazon, D-Wave, Alice & Bob, ParityQC - The Week in Quantum Computing, August 11th
Amazon’s SEC filing revealed a $36.7 million stake in IonQ, acquiring 854,207 shares, a new market analysis revealed that quantum technology vendors are…
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Sergio Gago
Classiq, D-Wave, Fujitsu, Xanadu, Cisco and mucho K8S - The Week in Quantum Computing, August 4th
Classiq Technologies expanded its Series C fundraising with new investments from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and CDP Venture Capital, following their earlier…
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Sergio Gago
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