E85 - Weekly Recap: $215M and 2028 Set Quantum's Clock — October 3, 2026

This weekly recap follows the push to put quantum computing on concrete timelines, from federal security measures to logical-qubit targets. It also looks at an IBM benchmark claim and a quantum-enhanced energy forecasting program, with attention to what each result does and does not establish.

US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028 — SingularityHubInfleqtion post on Riverlane MOU — X/@infleqtionMicrosoft and DARPA testing post — X/@skdhIBM Nighthawk r2 experiment summary — X/@OwenGregorianInfleqtion logical-qubit post — X/@infleqtionSQC and Schneider Electric Advance Quantum-Enhanced Energy Forecasting — The Quantum Insider

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00:00 Today's headlines

01:05 DOE sets 2028 qu...