E97 - IonQ’s $2 Billion Test: Can the Raise Buy Real Progress? — October 15, 2026

IonQ’s $2.0 billion offering puts the focus on the milestones needed to connect financing with progress. Today’s episode also covers a New York quantum fabrication facility and reports on decoder calibration, photonic computing and shorter single-qubit gates.

NYC Awards $29.2 million to New York University to Establish a Cutting-edge Quantum Fabrication Facility — The Quantum InsiderRiverlane and NVIDIA Demonstrate Accelerated QEC Decoder Calibration Using GPU Processing — Quantum Computing ReportORCA Computing Launches PT-3, The Latest Generation of Its Photonic Quantum Computers — The Quantum InsiderIonQ shareholder commentary — @DesFrontierTech on XFirstQFM Model Cuts Single-Qubit Gate Times by 33% on QuantWare Processor — The Quantum InsiderIonQ An...