IBM, Sydney, Alice&Bob, Majorana again, and of course US brings the bucks - The Week in Quantum Computing, June 29th 2026

Skeptics, take note—this week’s signals from quantum land are as much about engineering grind as boardroom bluster. Start with the science. Allstate and IBM brought quantum hardware into insurance risk management, demonstrating a hybrid approach to portfolio optimization (although one that no bank would use in production). Their work tacked the knapsack problem on IBM Quantum Heron chips, showing…

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