The U.S. Commerce Department awarded IBM a $1 billion CHIPS Act grant to build 'Anderon,' America's first dedicated 300mm quantum chip manufacturing foundry in Albany, New York. IBM matched the grant with $1 billion of its own capital, totaling $2 billion. Shares surged 11%, adding roughly $26 billion in market capitalization.
NVIDIA is turning quantum chip calibration and error correction into an open AI stack, with one model family that beats GPT 5.4 on QCalEval and another that speeds decoding by 2.25x. If those gains travel outside NVIDIA's own workflow, one of quantum computing's nastiest software bottlenecks just moved closer to something teams can actually deploy.
Google said on March 25, 2026 that it is now targeting 2029 for post-quantum cryptography migration. The company argues recent progress in quantum hardware, error correction, and factoring estimates makes authentication and signature upgrades more urgent.