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Quickly Quantum

Brian Lampert

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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#76
Yesterday · 12 min
QuEra Crays Up, Microsoft Hands DARPA 15,000 Sq Ft of Proof — September 23, 2026
QuEra and HPE plan on-premises neutral-atom QPUs with Cray supercomputers while Microsoft opens a 15,000-square-foot Maryland center giving DARPA hands-on Majorana 2 access. Plus Cisco-KETS quantum key distribution on IOS XR routers. QuEra Computing and HPE Partner to Integrate Fault-Tolerant Neutral-Atom QPUs with On-Premises HPE Cray Supercomputers — Quantum Computing Report Microsoft Opens 15,000-Square-Foot Quantum Research Center and Hardware Makerspace in Maryland Discovery District — Quantum Computing Report Cisco and KETS Integrate Quantum Key Distribution With Cisco IOS XR Routers — The Quantum Insider Source links news.fnal.gov hpcwire.com kets-quantum.com q106fm.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#75
Tuesday · 9 min
IonQ's Korea Stack Bet Plus RSA-260 at $400k — September 22, 2026
IonQ bundles a Superion 256 and SiV memory with SDT and a planned Gumi facility, plus a classical RSA-260 claim, and Phasecraft's Virginia move. IonQ and SDT Partner on Quantum Computing and Manufacturing in South Korea — The Quantum Insider Cognition GPU lattice siever factors RSA-260 at 10x lower cost — Quantum Zeitgeist Phasecraft to Establish U.S. Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia — The Quantum Insider @Qtumanalysis on X — X/@Qtumanalysis Source links @IonQ_Inc on X phys.org Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#74
Monday · 7 min
Quantum assist inside crash simulation, Swiss post-quantum chip plan — September 21, 2026
A Swiss post-quantum chip MoU, a D-Wave board move, a Chicago reality-check, and IonQ-Ansys in LS-DYNA. SEALSQ, WISeKey and Jura Sign MoU for Swiss Post-Quantum Semiconductor Center — The Quantum Insider @dwavequantum on X — X/@dwavequantum Editorial: Quantum is not AI, folks, and Chicago is not building a lakefront data center - Chicago Tribune IonQ and Ansys speed up HPC simulation using quantum computing - scientific-computing.com — scientific-computing.com Source links thequantuminsider.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#73
Saturday · 10 min
The Week Quantum Money Got Real — And Real Small — September 19, 2026
The weekly recap: PsiQuantum's CHIPS Act award goes final, a new benchmark humbles the whole industry, DOE launches a $215 million fault-tolerance prize, EPB fires up a trapped-ion computer in Chattanooga, and Diraq wires Dell's hardware straight into its Sydney lab. Department of Commerce Announces Finalization of CHIPS R&D Award — NIST New benchmark puts quantum computers to the test and reveals their limitations — Quantum Physics News EPB Launches IonQ Forte Enterprise Quantum Computer — Chattanoogan.com DOE Launches Quantum Genesis Q Competition — U.S. Department of Energy Diraq and Dell Technologies Partner on Silicon QPU Integration — Quantum Zeitgeist Source links digiconasia.net quantumcomputingreport.com quantumcomputingreport.com quantumzeitgeist.com thequantuminsider.com thequantuminsider.com thequantuminsider.com timesfreepress.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#72
Friday · 12 min
Washington's Quantum Moonshot Bets on Physics Meeting a Deadline — September 18, 2026
DOE launches a milestone-based prize race toward fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2028 — plus surface-code scaling on IBM hardware, a real-world IonQ/Synopsys engineering benchmark, an EigenQ SPAC raise, and a new QKD security proof out of Waterloo. DOE launches competition to accelerate development of world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer — U.S. Department of Energy Guest Post: The Quantum Inflection Point — The Quantum Insider USC and Quantum Elements Demonstrate Surface Code Scaling on IBM Heavy-Hex Processors — Quantum Computing Report IonQ and Synopsys Accelerate CAE Workloads by 14.6% via Trapped-Ion Hardware — Quantum Computing Report EigenQ Secures $45 Million Financing Ahead of Planned Nasdaq Listing — The Quantum Insider University of Waterloo QKD Security Proof — Quantum Zeitgeist Source links @ENERGY on X @IonQ_Inc on X @ionq_inc on X @whostp47 on X hpcwire.com powermag.com quantumzeitgeist.com thequantuminsider.com yahoo.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#71
September 17 · 13 min
Quantum's TSMC Problem: IBM's $1B Foundry, No Customers — September 17, 2026
Today: IBM's quantum foundry spinout Anderon finalizes a $1 billion CHIPS Act award, matched by IBM, to build a neutral wafer fab for the industry — but no rival has signed on yet. Plus an AI that writes quantum circuits, Riverlane's new Maryland HQ, IQM's first South American machine, and a room-temperature atom record out of Stuttgart. Anderon Finalizes $1 Billion CHIPS Act Award — IBM Newsroom Riverlane Establishes U.S. Headquarters in Maryland — The Quantum Insider IQM to Deploy Quantum Computer in Brazil — The Quantum Insider Circular Rydberg Atoms Set Three Records — Quantum Physics News Planckian Selected Among 13 Firms for EuroHPC's Quantum Push — Quantum Zeitgeist Source links @IonQ_Inc on X govconwire.com prnewswire.com quantumcomputingreport.com thequantuminsider.com tomshardware.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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September 16 · 1 min
Bonus: Meet Concrete Compute
A bonus introduction from Quickly Quantum to Concrete Compute, another daily show created by Brian Lampert. This cross-promotion features a short recommendation in this show’s voice, followed by the Concrete Compute trailer. Listen and subscribe to Concrete Compute for its regular episodes. This is a bonus introduction. The regular Quickly Quantum briefing remains on its usual schedule.
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#70
September 16 · 14 min
IonQ vs. Rigetti: Trapped Ions or Speed to Useful Quantum? — September 16, 2026
IonQ and Rigetti Computing get put head-to-head on accuracy versus speed, Beijing rolls out a quantum-industry matchmaking program, Silicon Quantum Computing hires a semiconductor-industry CFO, Mitsubishi Electric backs quantum startup OptQC, and Multiverse Computing debuts an AI model built partly on quantum-generated data. IonQ vs. Rigetti Computing: Which Pure-Play Quantum Stock Actually Has the Technology Edge? — The Motley Fool Beijing Launches Program to Connect Quantum Companies With Industrial Customers — The Quantum Insider SQC Appoints John Hollister as Chief Financial Officer — The Quantum Insider Mitsubishi Electric invests in quantum computing startup OptQC — Evertiq CompactifAI's Quasar 1.1 438B is first AI rebuilt with quantum inputs — Quantum Zeitgeist Source links @MultiverseCompu on X fool.com Source links Source links @IonQ_Inc on X @IonQ_Inc on X Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#69
September 15 · 15 min
Quantum's 100,000x Gap to Real Science — September 15, 2026
A new cross-vendor benchmark called QUOPS gives quantum computing its first apples-to-apples yardstick for progress — and finds current machines need roughly a hundred-thousand-fold performance jump to reach useful scientific work. Plus: NVIDIA's CUDA-Q Logical platform expansion, IonQ's haul at IEEE Quantum Week, and a proposed $500M Canadian chip fab. QUOPS benchmark paper — arXiv (Proctor et al.) Introducing QUOPS — Quantinuum Quantum Computers Need 100,000-Fold Performance Gain — The Quantum Insider NVIDIA Expands Open-Source CUDA-Q Platform — NVIDIA Newsroom IonQ Demonstrates Hybrid HPC and Quantum-AI Workflows — Quantum Computing Report Photonic Unveils Project VANGUARD — GlobeNewswire GPU-Accelerated Digital Twin for Quantum Sensors — Quantum Computing Report Source links @flexithomsen on X @IngrahamAngle on X @ingrahamangle on X @IonQ_Inc on X @IonQ_Inc on X @nvidianewsroom on X @qtumanalysis on X @quantinuumqc on X quantumzeitgeist.com thequantuminsider.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#68
September 14 · 12 min
Fortaegis Bets $50M That Security Lives in the Chip, Not the Code — September 14, 2026
Today: a Dutch security startup raises fifty million dollars betting that silicon fingerprints beat software cryptography in the quantum era, plus NVIDIA and Quantum Machines link qubits to GPUs in a millionth of a second, Quantinuum entangles two error-correction codes, Europe pairs its research fiber network with quantum-networking experts, and a 12,635-atom protein sets a new simulation scale. Fortaegis Raises $50 Million to Commercialize Chip-Based Security Technology — The Quantum Insider Quantum Machines Makes Quantum Computers Easier to Program With NVIDIA CUDA-Q And NVQLink — The Quantum Insider Heterogenous QEC codes boost efficiency in Quantinuum's Helix architecture — Quantum Zeitgeist GÉANT and Quantum Internet Alliance Partner to Advance European Quantum Networking Architecture — Quantum Computing Report RIKEN protein model reaches 12,635 atoms using quantum-classical computing — Quantum Zeitgeist Source links @PhysRevLett on X quantumcomputingreport.com quantumnews.in resiliencemedia.co techzine.eu Source links @physrevlett on X Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#67
September 13 · 13 min
Uncle Sam as Shareholder: Smart Bet or Bubble Backstop? — September 13, 2026
A Sunday think piece: Washington has quietly become a shareholder in nine quantum computing companies through CHIPS Act equity deals. We dig into Rigetti's SEC filing, the Intel precedent, and the fight between the 'entrepreneurial state' case for taxpayer equity and free-market warnings about politicized investment. Rigetti Computing Form 8-K — U.S. SEC EDGAR Trump's Presidential Portfolio Goes Quantum — Cato Institute Martin Shkreli criticism of quantum equity stakes — Benzinga D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum Just Got $300 Million From Washington — The Motley Fool D-Wave, Rigetti, Quantinuum land $100M each in CHIPS Act funding — Quantz Source links cnbc.com fool.com foreignpolicyjournal.com manufacturingdive.com startupfortune.com tradingview.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#66
September 12 · 10 min
Washington Buys a Stake in the Quantum Race — September 12, 2026
This week's recap: Washington took minority equity stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum as part of a $300 million CHIPS Act funding push, IonQ used its Investor Day to detail a Bitcoin-cracking roadmap, and NEC quietly stepped back from quantum hardware. Plus the smaller stories that flew under the radar — SEALSQ's revenue jump, a Canadian cryogenics contract, a marquee UConn hire, and PsiQuantum's finalized CHIPS award. D-Wave, Rigetti, and Quantinuum Just Got $300 Million — The Motley Fool IonQ Uses Investor Day to Detail Superion Roadmap — The Quantum Insider NEC Halts Development of Quantum Computer Hardware — The Quantum Insider SEALSQ Reports H1 2026 Results — GlobeNewswire (SEALSQ press release) Qubic Secures $1.5 Million Canadian Government Contract — The Quantum Insider Renowned Expert Elevates UConn Quantum Research — UConn Today PsiQuantum Finalizes $100M U.S. Government Award — The Quantum Insider Source links 01net.it @IonQ_Inc on X @PsiQuantum on X @QuantinuumQC on X @StockSavvyShay on X forklog.com quantumzeitgeist.com spaceq.ca thequantuminsider.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#65
September 11 · 14 min
An Open Leaderboard Just Undercut Google's Bitcoin-Cracking Math — September 11, 2026
An open, crowdsourced contest of humans and AI agents claims it cut the estimated quantum cost of a key Bitcoin-cracking step by 86%, undercutting a Google benchmark — but the paper's own authors warn the comparison isn't apples-to-apples. Plus: Novo Holdings says quantum investors are overweight hardware, and Chalmers researchers find a 1,000x speedup for bosonic qubit operations. ECDSA.Fail paper — arXiv Researchers And AI Agents Cut Estimated Quantum Cost of Attacking Bitcoin Encryption by 86% — The Quantum Insider Novo Holdings Report: Quantum Investment Must Move Beyond Hardware to Build Applications — The Quantum Insider 1,000 times faster operations bring reliable quantum computing a step closer — Phys.org Source links @infleqtion on X @NEARProtocol on X @nearprotocol on X @QuantinuumQC on X decrypt.co quantumcomputingreport.com tech.yahoo.com thequantuminsider.com thequantuminsider.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#64
September 10 · 12 min
IonQ's Bitcoin-Cracking Math: Real Physics, Marketing Slide — September 10, 2026
IonQ puts a precise number on breaking Bitcoin's encryption — and we check the hype against the roadmap. Plus IQM's staged path to logical qubits in Finland, an IBM-Lockheed quantum hub in Switzerland, a chemistry accuracy benchmark from Qedma, and Treasury's new bank-readiness task force. The First Full-Stack Blueprint for Breaking 256-bit Elliptic Curve Signatures — IonQ IQM Plans Logical-Qubit System for Finland's LUMI AI Factory — The Quantum Insider IBM, Lockheed Martin Announce Swiss Quantum Innovation Hub — IBM Newsroom Qedma and HQC2 Boost Quantum Chemistry Accuracy — Quantum Zeitgeist US Financial Sector Quantum Threat Prep Led by Quantum Readiness Task Force — Quantum Zeitgeist Source links @IonQ_Inc on X cioinfluence.com lumi-supercomputer.eu Source links sec.gov @TechSpot on X interestingengineering.com quantumcomputingreport.com thequantuminsider.com thequantuminsider.com tipranks.com tradingview.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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September 9 · 1 min
Bonus: Meet Space Stakes
A bonus introduction from Quickly Quantum to Space Stakes, another daily show created by Brian Lampert. This cross-promotion features a short recommendation in this show’s voice, followed by the Space Stakes trailer. Listen and subscribe to Space Stakes for its regular episodes. This is a bonus introduction. The regular Quickly Quantum briefing remains on its usual schedule.
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#63
September 9 · 12 min
Washington Owns $300M of Quantum Rivals; IonQ Bets $1.8B on Its Own Fab — September 9, 2026
Two ways to solve the same quantum manufacturing bottleneck: Washington takes equity in three rival hardware companies via a $300M CHIPS Act deal, while IonQ bets its $1.8B SkyWater acquisition on owning the fab outright. Plus GlobalFoundries' own quantum manufacturing award and a Gordon Bell Prize finalist. D-Wave, Rigetti, Quantinuum land $300M CHIPS deal — Yahoo Finance IonQ launches Superion product line — IonQ.com GlobalFoundries wins $375M for quantum manufacturing — Quantum Zeitgeist Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN and IBM advance to Gordon Bell Prize finals — The Quantum Insider Source links sec.gov @QuantinuumQC on X asktraders.com blockonomi.com newsable.asianetnews.com thequantuminsider.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#62
September 8 · 13 min
NEC Exits Its Quantum Hardware Program as Fujitsu Bets on Diamond Spin — September 8, 2026
NEC has quietly stepped back from building its own superconducting quantum computer, citing an ROI timeline too long to justify the capital — while cross-town rival Fujitsu, with TU Delft and QuTech, unveiled a diamond-spin prototype and a 2030/2035 logical-qubit roadmap. Plus: Singapore and Luxembourg pledge deeper quantum cooperation, and a University of Surrey team proposes a superfluid-helium qubit design. NEC Discontinues Superconducting Quantum Computer Development — Quantum Computing Report Fujitsu develops diamond-spin quantum computer prototype — The Quantum Insider Singapore, Luxembourg Target Deeper Cooperation in Quantum, AI And Space — The Quantum Insider University of Surrey designs superfluid helium qubit — Quantum Zeitgeist Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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September 8 · 1 min
Introducing Quickly Quantum
Quickly Quantum with Brian Lampert. Daily news and analysis from the quantum computing frontier A short introduction to the show. New episode every day. Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. 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.
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#61
September 7 · 9 min
September 7, 2026 — NEC Walks Away From Quantum Hardware
NEC, the company behind the world's first superconducting qubit demonstration in 1999, has halted development of quantum computer hardware — while continuing annealing and quantum-inspired work on conventional machines. Plus: a new record for single-photon flux, and the G7's fresh warning on post-quantum cryptography. Japan's NEC scraps effort to build a quantum computer — Nikkei Asia NEC Halts Development of Quantum Computer Hardware — The Quantum Insider Sparrow Quantum Sets Record With 500 Million Usable Photons Per Second — The Quantum Insider Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action — ANSSI/G7 Source links @NikkeiAsia on X digitimes.com thecyberexpress.com therecord.media Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.
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#60
September 6 · 12 min
September 6, 2026 — Physics or Plumbing: What's Actually Blocking Quantum Computing?
A Sunday think piece on IBM veteran and ERVA co-chair Brian Gaucher's claim that quantum computing's real bottleneck has shifted from physics to engineering — pilot lines, standards, and workforce — and whether the error-correction literature and workforce data actually back that up. Brian Gaucher (ERVA): Why engineering, not physics, now limits quantum progress — The Quantum Insider Report: Engineering Research To Advance Quantum Technologies — ERVA New road map for engineering research to advance quantum technologies — National Science Foundation Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer — Physics Today Quantum Error Correction: A Full Stack Challenge — IEEE Computer Society Quantum Computing Challenges Holding Back Practical Quantum Computers — The Quantum Insider Source links bqpsim.com thequantuminsider.com Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.
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