IonQ (IONQ) agrees to buy cybersecurity firm Elisity for up to $1.3 billion in stock
IonQ agreed to buy Zero Trust security company Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion, with the price used to count the shares set between $33.07 and $49.61.
IBM and IonQ reach the final stage of DARPA's quantum test as PsiQuantum gets a $150 million loan offer
Four companies moved to DARPA's final quantum test. IonQ says its own agreement could be worth up to $300 million.
Pasqal (PSQL) reports $80 million in booked business, including grants and tax credits. Firm orders total $41.8 million.
Pasqal reported 70.4 million euros ($80.0 million) of booked and awarded business, a figure that includes grants and tax credits, in its first results as a Nasdaq company. Its firm order book was 36.8 million euros ($41.8 million), and first-half revenue rose 14% to 4.9 million euros.
Quantum stocks compared: IonQ (IONQ) vs Rigetti (RGTI) vs D-Wave (QBTS)
IonQ, Rigetti, and D-Wave all sell quantum computers, but they use different technologies and run businesses of very different sizes. IonQ reported $80.1 million of second-quarter revenue, nearly 10 times Rigetti and D-Wave combined.
Korea's SDT is buying an IonQ quantum computer and plans to assemble its systems in Gumi
Korean quantum company SDT is buying the first Superion 256 in Korea from IonQ and plans a facility in Gumi to package IonQ's quantum memory and assemble its systems, as IonQ's preferred manufacturing partner for Asia-Pacific and Japan.
IonQ (IONQ) jumps on a quantum error-correction claim and a first system for Nvidia's research center
IonQ shares jumped after the company said it built the first end-to-end real-time quantum error decoder on a single CPU, tested on simulated circuits of up to 408 logical qubits. IonQ also said its Superion 256 will be the first on-premises quantum computer at Nvidia's research center in 2027.
IBM has a $1 billion quantum foundry award. Where do IonQ, D-Wave and Rigetti get their chips?
Anderon, IBM's Albany quantum foundry, signed its final $1 billion CHIPS award on Wednesday and named no outside customer. D-Wave's Advantage2 prototype came from a SkyWater fab that IonQ bought in July, Rigetti runs its own fab in Fremont, and neither IonQ nor Quantum Computing Inc received an award.
IBM (IBM) unit finalizes $1 billion quantum foundry award. Government equity terms remain undisclosed.
Anderon, the IBM company running a quantum wafer foundry in Albany, has signed its final $1 billion award with the Commerce Department. It was the largest of nine proposed in May. Commerce made minority equity stakes a condition of the funding. Anderon's release does not spell out its terms.
AI stock battle week 7: DeepSeek leads our AI stock contest. All four of its latest picks broke the rules (September 5, 2026)
DeepSeek tried to sell C3.ai and buy four stocks. Two were over the $10 billion ceiling, two were too illiquid, and it wanted eight names in a five-stock contest.
Pasqal (PSQL) doubled on its Nasdaq debut days after holders redeemed 90% of the SPAC shares
Holders of 26 million of Bleichroeder II's 29 million public shares took the $10 exit before the August 27 close. PSQL then finished its August 28 debut up 95% before giving much of it back.
Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital held 20 million Infleqtion (INFQ) shares in February. Now it has 1.4 million left.
Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital has reported about $266 million of Infleqtion (INFQ) stock sales since May, and Friday's filing shows the wind-down is nearly finished. A stake that started at 20 million shares in February is down to 1.4 million, and an August misstep means Maverick owes Infleqtion a $299,922.51 check.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 7: It wrote a longer risk memo than the trade was worth
Claude AI ran five-minute bars on four stocks, caught an earnings call that had been quietly postponed, computed a risk-reward ratio and wrote a memo against its own trade. Then it bought four shares of a battery company and went red in twenty minutes.
Rigetti (RGTI) and D-Wave (QBTS) report earnings Thursday. Rigetti's last profit was a warrant revaluation.
D-Wave reports Thursday morning and Rigetti Thursday afternoon, with IonQ going first on Wednesday. The Street wants about $4 million of revenue from D-Wave and $5 million from Rigetti, against market caps of $8.1 billion and $5.8 billion.
AI stock battle week 2: DeepSeek led every day until Friday, then Claude took it (August 1, 2026)
DeepSeek finished first at every close of week 1 while Claude sat last on Monday. Then Ambarella rose 16% on Friday and the order flipped. Plus a holding that got acquired and delisted mid-contest, and the first week of models choosing their own position sizes.
All seven Magnificent Seven stocks fell today. Here's where that money actually went (July 23, 2026)
All seven Magnificent Seven stocks were red by late morning Thursday, led by Tesla's 14% drop on an earnings miss and Alphabet's close-to-7% slide despite beating estimates, on another capex raise. Amazon and Meta sold off too ahead of next week's reports. The money didn't just leave, it rotated: into defense on Lockheed's earnings beat, and out of quantum, SaaS and space.
Bullish Watch, week of July 13: the market panicked over a Meta headline, and got it wrong
This week's watchlist, updated through Tuesday: Nebius gave back its early bounce on a data-center headline unrelated to its business, Kraken Robotics is holding up best of the five, Intel swung from a 6% drop to a 4.5% rally in two days, and Rocket Lab and Harmonic are still finding their footing.
Today's AI rotation map: out of the chips, into software, power and the frontier
A snapshot of Monday's rotation: as the AI build-out sold off, money moved into software (ServiceNow, Adobe), AI power (GE Vernova), quantum, space and cyber. A one-day picture that can flip fast.
The government is betting billions on quantum computing, but the payoff is years away
Washington is now a quantum-computing investor, having committed about $2 billion to nine companies and taken equity stakes back in May. But the technology will not pay off for years, and the pure-play stocks are already priced for a future that has not arrived. Here is the realistic picture.