Bitcoin has a quantum problem.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp with Polish President Karol Nawrocki in New York. Palantir stands with Poland, committed to supporting its national security and defense needs as we further extend our footprint in Central Europe.

$IONQ just added FIU as the third announced Superion 256 site after Cambridge and $NVDA with deployment expected in late 2027 giving Florida its first on-prem trapped-ion system. IonQ is starting to sell the quantum system itself rather than just access to it through cloud.

$IONQ In the race with China to keep America's quantum lead across land, sea, air and space, @IonQ_Inc cleared one of the biggest bottlenecks between today's quantum computers and fault-tolerant machines, a layer Beijing has yet to show it can match. Under @nic_delfosse research leadership, the company showed that real-time error correction, the classical workload that normally forces a quantum computer to stop and wait, can run on a single off-the-shelf CPU. In simulations of up to 408 logical qubits and more than 31 million operations, the decoder added as little as 0.02% delay (under 0.3% in the paper's baseline case). This could redraw the quantum map: if error correction fits on one ordinary chip, fault-tolerant machines stop needing a data centre's worth of support hardware, and networked quantum computers, space-based quantum nodes and quantum-secured satellite links move from blueprint toward buildable. China is building a complete quantum stack by decree: its own chips, national clouds, quantum-key satellites and computers in orbit, but no published real-time decoder at this scale that we could find. IonQ, under @NiccoloDeMasi's leadership has built America's stack by acquisition, from a trusted foundry and quantum networks to GPS-free clocks, on the ground and in orbit. Our new report, Land, Sea, Air and Space, sets out nine actions Washington should take now. The race isn't for one breakthrough; it's for whose stack the breakthrough lands in. ** A Special Thanks: To my teammates and Friends of IonQ who did the heavy lifting here to write, re-write, fact-check, and prepare this report in a way the IonQ community and our targeted readers can access, thank you. Here's the report. quantumtechintegration.blogs…

Tech history is unfolding! $IONQ researchers demonstrated an end-to-end quantum error-decoding system running on a single conventional CPU! Benchmarks covered workloads with up to 408 logical qubits and one million T gates—a key operation for complex quantum algorithms. Research paper Quantum computers need classical processors to interpret errors fast enough to keep calculations moving. Under the study’s lower-error assumptions, decoding added less than 0.3% to runtime, suggesting this crucial task could be handled without expensive specialized computing infrastructure. The future implication: potentially simpler, cheaper systems for fault-tolerant quantum computing. This is a promising decoding milestone; delivering those benefits still depends on building quantum hardware that meets the study’s assumptions and demonstrating reliable operation at scale. investors.ionq.com/news/news…

Great Substack on today’s market mechanics - the Darth Griffin name is perfect. 😂 “For those who missed it, Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund had grown to roughly $45 billion before getting absolutely smoked in July, falling toward $10 billion and forcing the liquidation of most of its public equity portfolio to Darth Griffin over at Citadel. For years I’ve argued that the modern stock market increasingly resembles a gigantic mechanical contraption driven primarily by passive flows, options positioning, dealer hedging and gamma. The marginal price of a stock isn’t necessarily being set by some guy with a green visor carefully discounting the next 20 years of cash flows. Increasingly, instead, it can be set by flows interacting with flows interacting with algorithms. And ever since GameStop, I’ve wondered, and I want to emphasize that this is my speculation, not something I can prove, how often enormous options purchases are being used to manufacture or accelerate momentum underneath the surface of the market. It also fits the same suspicion I’ve had about this market for years: what looks like fundamental price discovery may sometimes be something considerably more mechanical. I’ve said for years that I think the market is, in a colloquial sense, rigged. I don’t mean somebody is sitting in a smoke filled room deciding where the Nasdaq closes. I mean the structure of modern markets can create enormous self reinforcing moves that have very little to do with the fundamental value of the underlying businesses. This isn’t the stock market of the 1980s or 1990s. We now have zero day options, enormous passive vehicles, algorithmic strategies, volatility products, dealer gamma hedging and trillions of dollars responding mechanically to price. Nothing feels particularly real anymore.”

For all crypto investors: quantum-safety is now more important than ever. IonQ seems to be cracking ECDSA sooner than later. I warmly recommend taking a closer look at $QRL. DYOR. #QuantumSafe #Blockchain #Crypto $IONQ

This is MASSIVE. 408 logical qubits. Over a million logical operations. Real-time error decoding, end to end. The decoder hardware: 12 cores of a single MacBook Pro CPU. New this week from @IonQ_Inc (Delfosse's team). No FPGAs, no ASICs, no GPUs. 🧵 $IONQ

Today we share a major milestone in fault-tolerant quantum computing: Our researchers have successfully demonstrated the industry’s first end-to-end real-time decoder capable of decoding a large-scale universal fault-tolerant quantum computer. Moreover, it runs on a single standard off-the-shelf central processing unit (CPU). This is a path to more cost-effective quantum systems at scale and millions of operations without slowing down the execution of quantum applications. See more insights from @nic_delfosse, our QEC research lead, and John Gamble, Vice President at IonQ Architecture in the full announcement → ionq.com/news/ionq-demonstra… #IonQ #IonQSuperion #QuantumIsNow #QuantumComputing #QuantumErrorCorrection #QEC

$IonQ Congratulations IonQ! The l IonQ announcement is significantly more meaningful than what most may realize. The Friends of IonQ are working fastidiously to share the depth of what this really means on the commercial and geopolitical stage. In short - this is what we’ve been waiting for. Congratulations @NiccoloDeMasi and team: the magnitude of today is not lost on us. Well done. ionq.com/news/ionq-demonstra…

“ITS CALLED ‘POLICY LAUNDERING’ AND ITS WHEN YOU GET A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TO ADOPT YOUR PLAN AND THEN RUN A PR OP BACK AT YOUR WASHINGTON OPPONENTS SAYING ITS AN ‘INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED STANDARD’.”

Here's to hoping that in 2028 this list will have a lot of quantum names on it.

So this is pretty horrifying…. On this year’s ballot in Nevada, Question 6 makes abortion a "fundamental right" in the state constitution, the highest legal protection we have. That means almost any future limit, even a modest, broadly supported one, gets challenged under the strictest standard of review. So what does Question 6 actually add? - "Viability" isn't a fixed line in the amendment. It's decided by the patient's own practitioner, which leaves the provider who performs the procedure deciding when the limit applies. - It isn't limited to physicians/doctors. Any "qualified health-care professional" can perform abortions. - After viability, abortion remains legal to protect the patient's "health," a term the amendment leaves open. - That means that any “health care professional” (a term that includes nurses, dentists, opticians, and medical laboratory technicians) can theoretically murder an unborn child up through the final month of pregnancy. - It ratifies removal of parental notification and family involvement from abortion decisions made by minor children. Parental consent is required to give a student a Tylenol; yet this initiative would allow a minor to obtain an abortion without a parent even knowing. This goes further than Roe did, and further than current Nevada law.

$IONQ American national security begins with infrastructure, and this week proves it. Xi Jinping lands in Washington on Thursday while Beijing is already fusing AI, quantum and space: AI models running on Chinese satellites since 2025, a space-ground quantum network written into its five-year plan, key distribution fielded across some 40 cities, and a science pact with Rosatom signed in front of Xi and Putin. On the evidence in our new, deep-dive 79 page report "An IonQ Solution for the AI Force", China's build-out looks far more significant than the headlines suggest. Every AI fear in Washington (stolen model weights, distillation campaigns, rogue agents, data harvested now to decrypt later) is an infrastructure problem, and the fix has already been ordered. Section 1 starts where Washington's AI debate stands, with the lab leaders' call to pace the frontier and the administration's refusal, and turns it into five concrete asks for the AI Force charter. Those asks are to write the infrastructure layer into the charter, give the czar the 2030 migration clocks, make evidence a design requirement for any access to a frontier model, treat model weights as national assets in transit, and have the government act as a customer, not just a convenor. It is here that as a nation, we believe that the key infrastructure partner is the one who integrates all key layers, and as carefully presented in this dossier, @IonQ_Inc is the only company that can supply what is needed. Section 2 takes each AI concern in the news, from AI-accelerated cyberattacks to coordinated rogue agents and weight theft, and sets out what IonQ can answer today and what its roadmap adds. It is candid about the limits and capabilities: let us be clear - we embrace The United States of America and her allies national security issues before any corporate agenda - but in our profound belief in America and our allies, we seek partnerships that can assist in our way of life. Of all the companies we examined, IonQ is the only one that can deliver across every layer, with the only accredited trusted foundry owned by a quantum company, deployed quantum-safe networks, optical atomic clocks and assets in orbit. The report is prepared by Friends of IonQ, a working group with significant expertise in the topics it covers. Every claim is cited and tagged as fact or opinion, because the stakes are too high for anything less. Read it before the summit: quantumtechadoption.blogspot… #IonQ, #QuantumComputing, #NationalSecurity, #AIForce, #TrumpXiSummit, #ChinaQuantum, #ChinaQuantumTech, #QuantumSecurity, #TrumpQuantum, #CriticalInfrastructure, #QuantumNetworking, #SpaceForce, #AITrump, #NatoQuantum, #Quantumsatellites, #QuantumCongress @PattyMurray @SenSusanCollins @SenateApprops @dems_senat38409 @rosadelauro @TomColeOK04 @NiccoloDeMasi @ChinaSelect @RepMoolenaar @RoKhanna @SenatorRisch @JeanneShaheen @JeffMerkley @ChrisCoons @RepBrianMast @RepAdamSmith

Quantum computing is advancing from fundamental research into a revolutionary tool for scientific discovery. What comes next? @ENERGY’s Office of Science Advisory Committee report lays out a phased roadmap toward an integrated quantum future. Read it: science.osti.gov/-/media/Abo…

If you're raising money for a start up within the Quantum space here are the most active VCs to reach out to: - @DCVC ( @mattocko @zackbogue clear leaders) - @Quantonation ($350-400 Million AUM, over 43 investmnets) - @QAIventures ($200 Million AUM, 35 port companies) - @Playground_VC (Psi Quantum backers, $1.7B AUM) - @GroundStateVC ( @ChadRigetti and $75 million AUM) - @Quantum_Ams - @AirbusVentures (Q-Ctrl, IONQ, QC Ware, Etc) - @QuantumDom (GP Atmos Ventures) - @olivierfrancois ( @LatentCapital founder of BTQ) - @PrinehaN (DCVC Partner) - @nmanaloto (Pasadena based, founded Qubit Ventures) Who are we missing?

Take a deep dive into how quantum technologies are accelerating, captured in our Investor Day presentations. This is the vision from the frontier of the quantum ecosystem: 🔸 @NiccoloDeMasi, Chairman and CEO, IonQ 🔸 Inder M. Singh, COO and CFO, IonQ 🔸 Chris Ballance, President of Quantum Computing, IonQ 🔸 Thomas Sonderman, CEO, SkyWater 🔸 @jordan_shapiro, President and General Manager, Quantum Platform, IonQ Read the blog → ionq.com/blog/innovating-man… #IonQ #QuantumIsNow #FutureOfQuantum

you can beat the federal government with guns

Thank you, Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, for your kind words, our friendship and your strong commitment to the Polish-US partnership. We are ready to continue our efforts to strengthen our defense cooperation: seriously, responsibly, and always together. I can assure you that the Polish government will do its utmost to provide the best possible location for the US Army base.

This is the part most people will miss: The QPU does not replace the entire 35M-element classical simulation. It attacks the graph-partitioning bottleneck, then returns the result to the classical workflow. In other words, quantum is not here to fire the supercomputer. It is here to take the worst task off its desk. That may be the fastest path to commercialization.