August 27, 2026 — IBM Buys a Rival Qubit's Home Lab

IBM has completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, pulling silicon-spin qubit expertise into a company that built its whole roadmap on superconducting circuits — is it a hedge, or just insurance? Plus: EuroHPC's thirteen startup picks, a trapped-ion fidelity fix from LLNL and NIST, Sabine Hossenfelder amplifying a Bloomberg piece on quantum hype versus cyber risk, and funding news from ColibriTD and Diraq. IBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories — The Quantum Insider EuroHPC Selects 13 European QPU Startups — Quantum Computing Report Ramped Fields Create More Robust Trapped-Ion Entanglement — Quantum Physics News Quantum Computers Promise Breakthroughs But Risk a Cybersecurity Crisis — Bloomberg ColibriTD Raises €4M to Expand Quantum Simulation Software — The Quantum Insider Diraq Launches Engineering Hub in Santa Monica — Quantum Computing Report Quickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.