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The daily quantum computing briefing you don't need a physics degree to follow. Every day, Quickly Quantum cuts through the hype to bring you the breakthroughs, funding rounds, policy moves, and research that actually matter, with plain-English analysis a smart non-physicist can follow. Hosted by Brian Lampert. AI-voiced, human-built, always skeptical of press releases. Nothing on this show is financial advice.Also from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute and Space Stakes.
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- Today22 min
Weekend Bonus: Quantum’s Limits, Chicago Hardware and a $10.9 Billion — November 7, 2026
This Weekend Bonus connects a mathematical limit on random-input speedups with a map of 24 possible quantum-advantage targets. It also covers Chicago’s operating IBM system, hybrid battery chemistry work, topological-material evidence and the gap between investment, booked business and recognized revenue.A proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture — PSIIBM's Quantum System Two begins operations at Chicago research hub — Interesting EngineeringHorizon Quantum Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Entropica Labs for $27 Million — Quantum Computing ReportIQM and Volkswagen Advance Quantum-Classical AFQMC to Simulate Next-Generation Battery Chemistry — Quantum Computing ReportExperiment supports theoretical foundation for potentially more error-resistant quantum computing — Quantum Physics NewsMIT and Accenture find $10.9 billion flowed into quantum computing last year — Quantum ZeitgeistPasqal Reports Third-Quarter Revenue Decline as QPU Services Revenue Grows — The Quantum InsiderStudy Maps 24 Problems Where Quantum Computers Could Gain an Edge — The Quantum InsiderChapters00:00 Today's headlines00:59 Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture is now a theorem03:40 IBM Quantum System Two operational in Chicago06:30 Horizon Quantum letter of intent for Entropica08:48 IQM Volkswagen QC-AFQMC runtime reduction11:21 Cologne team observes predicted Andreev states13:48 2026 Quantum Index Report: $10.9 billion invested16:34 Pasqal QPU services revenue increased 53%18:58 Study maps 24 problems with quantum advantageQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.Follow Quickly Quantum: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · SpotifyMore from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.
- Yesterday13 min
IonQ’s $173.8 Million Quarter Meets the Durability Question — November 6, 2026
IonQ raised its 2026 revenue outlook after a record quarter, with revenue spanning its quantum-computing platform and SkyWater foundry services. The episode also explains quantum error correction and covers new IBM, AMD, ORNL and Quantinuum platform and software developments.IonQ Raises Revenue Forecast as Quarterly Sales Climb to $173.8 Million — The Quantum InsiderQuantum error correction — WikipediaIBM, ORNL, and AMD Deploy Co-Located Quantum Error Correction Platform in Poughkeepsie — Quantum Computing ReportQuantinuum Raises Revenue Outlook After Landing Its Largest Cloud Agreement — The Quantum InsiderQuantinuum Unveils Nexus Roadmap to Automate Fault-Tolerant Application Deployment Through 2029 — Quantum Computing ReportQiskit Functions Catalog update — @qiskit on XChapters00:00 Today's headlines00:55 Protecting quantum information01:57 IBM, ORNL and AMD launch platform03:56 Quantinuum raised revenue outlook05:42 Quantinuum Nexus software roadmap07:32 IonQ revenue from platform and foundry10:31 IonQ profit and warrant valuesSource linksquantum.cloud.ibm.com@AMD on Xfedscoop.commorningstar.comprnewswire.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.Follow Quickly Quantum: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · SpotifyMore from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.
- 2 days ago12 min
Can IonQ Sell Security Beyond Quantum Computing? — November 5, 2026
IBM Quantum and QuICS Deploy AI Agents to Discover Over 500 High-Efficiency Magic-State Factories — Quantum Computing ReportIonQ Secures Contract To Supply Quantum Compute To Connecticut Groups — Quantum ZeitgeistBitcoin Cash Proposal Seeks Path to Quantum-Resistant Transactions — The Quantum InsiderD-Wave Updates Stride Hybrid Solver With Faster Optimization Performance — The Quantum InsiderIonQ Completes $1.15B Acquisition of Elisity to Integrate Zero Trust with Quantum Security — Quantum Computing ReportChapters00:00 Today's headlines00:52 IQM's orders reached €102.5 million02:08 564 unknown magic-state factory protocols03:33 IonQ cloud runtime for Connecticut04:54 Bitcoin Cash proposal OP_SIGHASH opcode06:14 D-Wave Stride hybrid solver upgrade07:49 IonQ completed Elisity acquisition10:07 Elisity's active enterprise deploymentsSource links@dwavequantum on X@IonQ_Inc on Xthequantuminsider.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.Follow Quickly Quantum: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · SpotifyMore from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.
- 3 days ago12 min
Foundry-Built Ion Chip Anchors Institutional Machines Amid Finance — November 4, 2026
Today’s episode looks at Universal Quantum’s foundry-built iQPU and the DLR systems it is intended to power, alongside a finance pilot, European policy proposals, superconductivity research and quantum error correction.FirstQFM Says Quantum System Beats Classical Forecasting Benchmarks — The Quantum InsiderAhead of EU Quantum Act, IQM Calls for Dedicated Qubit Foundries and DARPA-Style Procurement — Quantum Computing ReportSlides for my talk at the Nobel Symposium on Quantum Computing: “Quantum error correction gets real” — John Preskill on XUniversal Quantum Details Iterative Redecode Scheme for Fast Transversal Fault-Tolerant Logic — Quantum Computing ReportUniversal Quantum Unveils the iQPU: Foundry-Fabricated Trapped-Ion Processor Engineered for Modular Scaling — Quantum Computing ReportChapters00:00 Today's headlines01:07 FirstQFM claims edge over classical03:16 IQM releases industrial policy manifesto04:35 Cornell's uranium ditelluride superconductivity06:03 Universal Quantum's redecode scheme06:56 Universal Quantum's iQPU launch09:38 iQPU scaling claim unprovenSource linksquantumcomputingreport.comthequantuminsider.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.Follow Quickly Quantum: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · SpotifyMore from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.
- 4 days ago13 min
Cat Qubits Hold Their Bit-Flips for Hours — November 3, 2026
Alice & Bob reports long physical bit-flip lifetimes on cat-qubit hardware, while the remaining error-correction challenges stay substantial. The episode also covers NIST’s post-quantum migration roadmap, practical preparation in Hong Kong, South Korea’s planned hybrid system and new funding for Quint Computing.NIST sets post-quantum cryptography migration priorities — Industrial CyberHKUST and HKMA Launch PQC Toolkit for Banks — The Quantum InsiderSouth Korea Launches Hangang Supercomputer, Plans Quantum Integration — The Quantum InsiderQuint Computing raises €9.1M to scale quantum computing technology — tech.euOxford Ionics and IonQ post — @TechInnovationz on XAlice & Bob Demonstrates Multi-Hour Physical Bit-Flip Suppression — Quantum Computing ReportChapters00:00 Today's headlines00:55 NIST roadmap for post-quantum encryption02:55 Hong Kong post-quantum toolkit for banks04:07 Hangang supercomputer fully operational05:22 Quint Computing raised €9.1 million06:24 Oxford Ionics electronics on the chip07:24 Cat qubits measured bit-flip lifetimes09:32 Cat qubit memory active correctionQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.Follow Quickly Quantum: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · SpotifyMore from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.
- 5 days ago12 min
35,000 Developers, and a Quantum-Safe Card Certification — November 2, 2026
Today’s episode follows a certified post-quantum payment-card platform and considers what still has to happen before it reaches everyday use. We also cover emulator access through qBraid, research surfaced by Quantum Papers, Iceberg Quantum’s advisor appointment, the end of QSolid, and an X post about IonQ and Heven.BTQ Technologies Brings MIMIQ Quantum Emulator to qBraid — The Quantum InsiderEntanglement diagnostics of stochastic-resetting steady states — Quantum Papers on XIceberg Quantum gains Jens Eisert as quantum advisor — Quantum ZeitgeistIceberg Quantum advisor post — QuantumStateX on XQSolid consortium ends five years of quantum hardware and software work — Quantum ZeitgeistIonQ and Heven AeroTech post — @TechInnovationz on XIDEMIA Secure Transactions Receives EMVCo Certification for PQC Payment Cards — The Quantum InsiderChapters00:00 Today's headlines00:50 MIMIQ emulator now available on qBraid03:25 Jens Eisert added as Iceberg advisor04:25 QSolid consortium concluded in Germany05:14 Heven AeroTech staff after IonQ investment06:14 EMVCo certification for IDEMIA cards08:44 Certification is not migration completeSource linksarxiv.orgQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.Follow Quickly Quantum: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · SpotifyMore from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.
- 6 days ago8 min
Clocks Sail While Magnetometers Lag in Pentagon Quantum Sensor Push — November 1, 2026
Can the Pentagon field quantum sensors by 2028? Brian weighs EO 14413's Sept 30, 2028 mandate, DIU's up-to-$200M Farseer push, and Infleqtion's two-week Tiqker run aboard RV Merlin against manufacturing hurdles.Infleqtion Tests Optical Atomic Clock During US Navy Exercise — The Quantum InsiderChapters00:00 Today's headlines01:08 Pentagon quantum sensors by 202802:41 Freymann's case for a sprint on clocks03:55 Kyle Norman on the transition barrier05:02 Luca Ferrara: the factory does not exist yet05:55 Hype Check: 5 out of 10 on FarseerQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.Follow Quickly Quantum: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · SpotifyMore from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.
- 1 weeks ago12 min
Weekend Bonus: Who Gets to Build, Fund and Define Quantum’s Next Step? — October 31, 2026
This Weekend Bonus follows the week’s quantum stories from policy and networking to materials, manufacturing and the assumptions behind quantum advantage. The announcements include early-stage plans and research as well as a lab demonstration, with important differences in what each establishes.Quantum Industry Coalition Highlights Funding Priorities For The National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act — The Quantum InsiderLumen Expands Quantum Footprint with Ohio State Fiber Research and Fortinet PQC SASE Rollout — Quantum Computing ReportSandia and Quantinuum Introduce Logical Gate Set Tomography to Map Fault-Tolerant Qubit Noise — Quantum Computing ReportFoxconn Aims to Become World’s Largest Quantum Computer Manufacturer — The Quantum InsiderWolfspeed Introduces Optical-Grade Silicon Carbide for Augmented Reality and Quantum Computing — The Quantum InsiderOpenAI Computing Claim Faces Review, Raising Questions About Quantum Advantage — The Quantum InsiderChapters00:00 Today's headlines00:52 Coalition urges Congress on quantum act02:41 Lumen plans Fortinet PQC for SASE04:34 Logical gate set tomography on H1-106:20 Foxconn wants to build quantum systems08:09 Wolfspeed transparent silicon carbide wafers09:50 Exponential Time Hypothesis claim under reviewQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.Follow Quickly Quantum: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · SpotifyMore from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.
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