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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.

  1. 13h ago

    Will quantum computers grow as networks? — October 18, 2026

    Brian Lampert asks whether the big quantum computer will be a network, examining IonQ's above-1 kHz barium-ion to diamond memory link through three modular scaling arguments and what fidelity questions remain. IonQ Demonstrates World-First Quantum Memory-Enhanced Interconnect for Distributed Quantum Applications — Business WireChapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:40 IonQ says the network is the computer 01:58 Niccolo de Masi: networked data centers 03:07 Chris Monroe on photon-mediated links 04:29 Mihir Bhaskar on memory-enhanced links 05:44 Hype Check on IonQ's link rate 06:54 Share today's episode with one friend Quickly 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 · Spotify More 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.

    Will quantum computers grow as networks? — October 18, 2026

  2. 1d ago

    Weekly Recap: IonQ’s $2B Raise Meets a Fault-Tolerance Push — October 17, 2026

    This weekly recap follows IonQ’s financing and acquisition plans alongside technical work on quantum errors, silicon-qubit fidelity, and decoder speed. It also examines TAIYI Quantum’s funding announcement and Morgan Stanley’s long-range market forecast. IonQ Announces Pricing of $2.0 Billion Equity Offering Purchased by Heights Capital Management — Quantum Computing ReportIonQ Agrees to Buy Elisity in Cybersecurity Deal Worth Up to $1.3 Billion — The Quantum InsiderGoogle Says it cuts quantum error rates by 40x with ‘magic state cultivation’ — Quantum ZeitgeistSilicon qubits surpass 99.99% gate fidelity while operating three at once — Quantum Physics NewsRiverlane and NVIDIA Demonstrate Accelerated QEC Decoder Calibration Using GPU Processing — Quantum Computing ReportTAIYI Quantum Surpasses RMB 1 Billion in Funding to Advance Fault-Tolerant Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing — The Quantum InsiderMorgan Stanley Sees Quantum Computing A $100B Market, And It's Betting On This Stock - Yahoo Finance — finance.yahoo.comChapters 00:00 Today's headlines 01:19 IonQ prices $2.0 billion equity offering 02:37 IonQ agrees to acquire Elisity 04:10 Google magic-state cultivation on Willow 05:48 RIKEN five-qubit silicon array fidelity 07:12 Riverlane and NVIDIA decoder on H100 GPU 08:53 TAIYI Quantum funding and ytterbium target 10:21 Morgan Stanley quantum revenue forecast Quickly 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 · Spotify More 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.

    Weekly Recap: IonQ’s $2B Raise Meets a Fault-Tolerance Push — October 17, 2026

  3. 2d ago

    Google’s 40-Fold Error Cut: Does It Shrink the Quantum Bill? — October 16, 2026

    Google demonstrated magic-state cultivation on Willow, reporting a roughly 40-fold error reduction while leaving factory-scale costs unresolved. The episode also covers parallel silicon-qubit control, new research and hardware deployments, and company and market projections. Silicon qubits surpass 99.99% gate fidelity while operating three at once — Quantum Physics NewsIonQ and University of Cambridge Open Quantum Innovation Centre — The Quantum InsiderD-Wave Delivers Advantage2 Annealing Quantum Computer to Italy — The Quantum InsiderSEALSQ has $465M to fund post-quantum semiconductor plans — Quantum ZeitgeistMorgan Stanley Sees Quantum Computing A $100B Market, And It's Betting On This Stock - Yahoo Finance — Yahoo FinanceGoogle Says it cuts quantum error rates by 40x with ‘magic state cultivation’ — Quantum ZeitgeistChapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:37 Silicon qubits, shared microwave control 01:58 IonQ opens Cambridge research centre 03:08 D-Wave system delivered to Como 04:14 SEALSQ preliminary revenue and guidance 05:25 Morgan Stanley's Quantinuum forecast 06:48 Google magic-state cultivation on Willow 09:43 Cultivation fidelity, retention and cost Source links @IonQ_Inc on X@QuantumBullHQ on X@sundarpichai on Xthequantuminsider.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 · Spotify More 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.

    Google’s 40-Fold Error Cut: Does It Shrink the Quantum Bill? — October 16, 2026

  4. 3d ago

    IonQ’s $2 Billion Test: Can the Raise Buy Real Progress? — October 15, 2026

    IonQ’s $2.0 billion offering puts the focus on the milestones needed to connect financing with progress. Today’s episode also covers a New York quantum fabrication facility and reports on decoder calibration, photonic computing and shorter single-qubit gates. NYC Awards $29.2 million to New York University to Establish a Cutting-edge Quantum Fabrication Facility — The Quantum InsiderRiverlane and NVIDIA Demonstrate Accelerated QEC Decoder Calibration Using GPU Processing — Quantum Computing ReportORCA Computing Launches PT-3, The Latest Generation of Its Photonic Quantum Computers — The Quantum InsiderIonQ shareholder commentary — @DesFrontierTech on XFirstQFM Model Cuts Single-Qubit Gate Times by 33% on QuantWare Processor — The Quantum InsiderIonQ Announces Pricing of $2.0 Billion Equity Offering Purchased by Heights Capital Management — Quantum Computing ReportChapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:42 NYU quantum fabrication facility 02:00 Decoder recalibration on NVIDIA H100 GPU 03:26 ORCA PT-3 photonic quantum computer live 04:46 IonQ shareholder questions the financing 05:33 FirstQFM reduced single-qubit gate time 06:36 IonQ priced $2.0 billion equity offering 08:53 The raise's purpose is harder to measure Source links quantumcomputingreport.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 · Spotify More 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.

    IonQ’s $2 Billion Test: Can the Raise Buy Real Progress? — October 15, 2026

  5. 4d ago

    Taiyi’s RMB 1 Billion Fault-Tolerance Bet — October 14, 2026

    TAIYI Quantum’s cumulative funding and reported engineering milestones lead today’s coverage. We also look at Qilimanjaro’s Series A first close, D-Wave’s manufacturing agreement with SkyWater, Infleqtion’s sensing project and SEALSQ’s ML-KEM security research. Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech Series A first close — The Quantum InsiderSkyWater and D-Wave extend manufacturing collaboration — D-WaveInfleqtion receives £9 million for quantum RF sensing — The Quantum InsiderSEALSQ presents research on ML-KEM side-channel attacks — The Quantum InsiderQilimanjaro Series A first close and deployed systems — EU-StartupsTAIYI Quantum surpasses RMB 1 billion in cumulative funding — The Quantum InsiderChapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:52 Qilimanjaro's €19.6 million first close 02:16 D-Wave and SkyWater multi-year agreement 03:50 Quantum Spectrum-DF receives £9 million 05:06 ML-KEM side-channel attack on encoding 06:30 Qilimanjaro's deployed systems 07:46 TAIYI funding exceeded RMB 1 billion 10:32 Hype Check on TAIYI's milestones Quickly 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 · Spotify More 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.

    Taiyi’s RMB 1 Billion Fault-Tolerance Bet — October 14, 2026

  6. 5d ago

    IonQ’s $1.3 Billion Bet on Cybersecurity — October 13, 2026

    IonQ’s proposed all-stock acquisition of Elisity raises the question of whether quantum companies can become enterprise security vendors. Today’s other stories cover UK quantum projects, DOE application priorities, GPU decoding, quantum feedback control and a Swinburne-IQM partnership. Quantum firms backed to keep railways running and cut waiting lists — UK governmentUS identifies 8 priority applications for fault-tolerant quantum computers — Innovation News NetworkAlice & Bob decodes LDPC-cat codes on GPUs with NVIDIA NVQLink — The Quantum InsiderOne step closer to quantum computers that can correct their own mistakes — Quantum Physics NewsSwinburne and IQM partner on quantum research and workforce development — The Quantum InsiderIonQ agrees to buy Elisity in cybersecurity deal worth up to $1.3 billion — The Quantum InsiderChapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:40 UK quantum funding package 01:56 Eight fault-tolerant quantum targets 03:35 Alice & Bob decoding not yet real-time 04:43 IBM Heron real-time feedback control 05:54 Swinburne and IQM quantum partnership 07:07 IonQ agrees to acquire Elisity 09:42 Hype Check on IonQ's Elisity deal Source links @infosec on Xbusinesswire.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 · Spotify More 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.

    IonQ’s $1.3 Billion Bet on Cybersecurity — October 13, 2026

  7. 6d ago

    South Korea Pairs Quantum Purchases With Long-Term Investment Push — October 12, 2026

    South Korea's quantum purchases and Q-Block's compact hardware highlight the push to make quantum systems practical. The main story examines D-Wave's dual-rail roadmap and why its simulation-based error-suppression claim still needs measured scaling evidence. Korean Investment in Quantum Computing, and the Five Machines It Has Bought — Quantum ZeitgeistMatthew Kinsella, The Complete Story Of The Infleqtion Chief — Quantum Zeitgeist3 Quantum Computing Stocks Poised to Outperform IonQ and Rigetti This Month — The Motley FoolInside D-Wave's Dual-Rail Qubit Roadmap and the New Haven Bet on Logical Qubits — Quantum ZeitgeistChapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:43 Five quantum machines in South Korea 01:59 Q-Block's products and Canadian defence market 02:45 Kinsella became Infleqtion chief executive 04:12 Motley Fool's quantum stock argument 05:33 D-Wave's dual-rail bet on error detection 07:56 DR-17 and the tenfold suppression claim Source links arxiv.orgkoreajoongangdaily.joins.compostquantum.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 · Spotify More 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.

    South Korea Pairs Quantum Purchases With Long-Term Investment Push — October 12, 2026

  8. Oct 11

    Crypto Bunker Mode or Go Slow? $7.1B Lesson in Quantum Fear — October 11, 2026

    Sunday think piece: should crypto enter bunker mode now or would rushing quantum-safe migrations do more harm? We steelman Drake, Buterin, protocol-recovery and NSA/GAO readiness views. 'Don't rush anything': Vitalik Buterin warns against hasty wallet migrations amid growing AI threats — theblock.coNSA Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Measures to Safeguard National Security Systems — nsa.govFederal Quantum Readiness Falls Short as Agencies Face Cryptography Skills Gaps — The Quantum InsiderChapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:48 Should crypto enter bunker mode now? 02:30 Move quietly to fresh hashed addresses 03:53 Vitalik Buterin says don't scramble 05:15 Network recovery with hash-based backups 06:43 NSA mandates and GAO readiness report 08:23 Prepare the plumbing, don't stampede Quickly 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 · Spotify More 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.

    Crypto Bunker Mode or Go Slow? $7.1B Lesson in Quantum Fear — October 11, 2026
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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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