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Quickly Quantum · August 19 · 17 min

August 19, 2026 — IBM's Cooling Milestone: Progress or Roadmap Theater?

IBM connects its first two modular cryogenic systems on the road to its 2029 Quantum Starling machine — real engineering, but does it retire the hardest risk left on the roadmap? Plus: a record-breaking 420 km quantum memory link, a bipartisan grid cybersecurity bill, a live D-Wave deployment at NTT DOCOMO, a cheaper way to fabricate tantalum qubit chips, and a widely-engaged X thread asking if quantum computing is one big bubble. Linked sources: IBM Connects Its First Modular Cryogenic Systems — PR Newswire / IBM Quantum sector called a 'scam' — X/@ParadisLabs and IonQ CEO commentary — Yahoo Finance / TheStreet New Tantalum Process — The Quantum Insider and Krypton gas study — Phys.org Entangling Quantum Memories through a 420 km Long Fiber — Physical Review Letters and arXiv preprint Quantum-GUARD Act — Congress.gov and SRI / QED-C statement NTT DOCOMO Deploys Second D-Wave Application — Quantum Computing Report OTI Lumionics & SAIT 200+ Logical Qubit Emulation — Quantum Computing Report 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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IBM connects its first two modular cryogenic systems on the road to its 2029 Quantum Starling machine — real engineering, but does it retire the hardest risk left on the roadmap? Plus: a record-breaking 420 km quantum memory link, a bipartisan grid cybersecurity bill, a live D-Wave deployment at NTT DOCOMO, a cheaper way to fabricate tantalum qubit chips, and a widely-engaged X thread asking if quantum computing is one big bubble.

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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