Quantinuum prices its IPO at $1.68bn, setting a new bar for quantum
Quantinuum prices its IPO at $1.68bn, setting a new bar for quantum

The marketed range was $53 to $55. Quantinuum priced at $60. That gap, the willingness of investors to pay above what the bankers asked, is the real news in the Honeywell-backed company’s initial public offering, which raised $1.68bn and set a valuatio…

France’s Quobly raises €115M to put a quantum computer on a silicon chip
France’s Quobly raises €115M to put a quantum computer on a silicon chip

Most quantum-computing startups ask the world to build them an entirely new industry: exotic materials, bespoke fabrication, supply chains that do not yet exist. Quobly is making a quieter bet. The Grenoble company thinks the path to a useful quantum m…

Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half
Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline f…

IBM is up 30% in a month as Barclays says its software business is the antidote to the SaaSpocalypse
IBM is up 30% in a month as Barclays says its software business is the antidote to the SaaSpocalypse

IBM stock surged 10% on Monday after Barclays initiated coverage with an overweight rating and a $350 price target, roughly 11% above the opening price. The jump extends a run that has seen IBM gain nearly 30% in May alone, its best monthly performance…

Quantinuum boosts its IPO to $1.46 billion as orders hit double-digit multiples of available shares
Quantinuum boosts its IPO to $1.46 billion as orders hit double-digit multiples of available shares

Quantinuum, the Honeywell-backed quantum computing company, has increased the size of its initial public offering to as much as $1.46 billion after demand from investors far exceeded the original allocation. The company is now offering 26.5 million sha…

QTREX is betting on the layer beneath quantum computing
QTREX is betting on the layer beneath quantum computing

The quantum computing industry has spent the last three years measured almost entirely in qubits. Willow’s 105. Nighthawk’s 120. The 540-qubit superconducting platform that integrated nearly 700 control lines into a single cryostat last year. The qubit…

Honeywell’s Quantinuum settles on $12.7bn IPO target after $20bn whisper
Honeywell’s Quantinuum settles on $12.7bn IPO target after $20bn whisper

Quantinuum, the quantum-computing company majority-owned by Honeywell, is targeting a valuation of $12.7bn in its US IPO, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday, a level materially below the $20bn-plus figure that circulated earlier in May when the c…

NVIDIA’s NVentures adds Alice & Bob to its quantum portfolio
NVIDIA’s NVentures adds Alice & Bob to its quantum portfolio

The Paris-based cat-qubit company adds NVentures to a cap table already backed by FFC, AVP and Bpifrance, and deepens its CUDA-Q tie-up with Nvidia. Alice & Bob, the Paris- and Boston-based quantum hardware company building fault-tolerant machines …

IBM lands $1bn as US backs nine quantum companies for $2bn
IBM lands $1bn as US backs nine quantum companies for $2bn

Nine CHIPS Act letters of intent, $1bn for IBM, and a government cap table that now includes most of the publicly traded quantum names. The US Department of Commerce has signed nine letters of intent to provide $2.013bn in CHIPS Act funding to quantum …

QIZ Security teams up with Google Cloud to help enterprises brace for the quantum cryptography threat
QIZ Security teams up with Google Cloud to help enterprises brace for the quantum cryptography threat

  The race to protect sensitive data from future quantum computers just gained fresh momentum. QIZ Security, a cryptographic posture management startup, has announced a collaboration with Google Cloud designed to help enterprises accelerate their migra…