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Technology executive who is chairman and CEO of IonQ, the trapped-ion quantum computing company; a public voice on quantum roadmaps and post-quantum security.
IonQ agreed to buy cybersecurity firm Elisity for up to $1.3 billion in stock, including up to $150 million in earn-outs. IonQ says the purchase opens enterprise and government channels for its quantum offerings.
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IonQ says its photonic link entangled a trapped-ion qubit with a solid-state memory more than 1,000 times a second. That answers the speed question for modular quantum machines.
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King Charles brings the leaders of Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic to Ayrshire this week to weigh a charter of principles the Ditchley Foundation has drafted for them. The push to slow down came from inside the labs.
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IonQ's September 8 paper puts one secp256k1 key at just under 26 days on 20,000 physical qubits. The company's roadmap reaches 10,000 fault-tolerant qubits in 2027 and names no year for the larger machine.
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Superion 256 opens for orders with deliveries due in 2027. The six tapeouts IonQ ran in half a year say more about whether its 2028 fault-tolerance date is real than the qubit count does.
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