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UK backs quantum products and skills with £78m
UK announcements combine £50m for quantum products, £20m for networking components and £8m for apprenticeships, with rail, eye-care and radio projects among the recipients.
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QUBIT TECHNOLOGIES / HARDWARE APPROACHESORCA launched its PT-3 photonic computer on 15 October, with the first system operating alongside NVIDIA hardware at Digital Realty’s London lab. Its reported protein-design and energy-scheduling results concern particular hybrid quantum-classical workloads.MAJOR HARDWARE COMPANIES / FULL-STACK PLAYERSIonQ and Cambridge opened a quantum innovation centre on 15 October. IonQ also priced a $2bn equity offering on 14 October; that announcement records the offered securities rather than a new financial-report cash balance.SOFTWARE / CLOUD / DEVELOPER PLATFORMSIBM announced directed execution on 5 October, giving developers more control over how quantum jobs run. Its 6 October Qiskit guide also explains native Fortran, C++ and Julia access through the existing C interface. Quantinuum’s UWA agreement provides remote Helios access for research and training.
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All briefings →20 Oct 2026 · 00:02:01Where the UK's quantum funding goesUK announcements combine £50m for quantum products, £20m for networking components and £8m for apprenticeships, with rail, eye-care and radio projects among the recipients.17 Oct 2026 · 00:02:18The yield behind a quantum magic stateGoogle's Willow experiment reduced magic-state errors 40-fold. Its 99.99% fidelity result retained 8% of attempts, making yield central to the engineering picture.