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Commerce will take equity in nine quantum companies. $2 billion is moving in exchange.
On May 21 NIST disclosed nine letters of intent worth $2.013B for IBM, GlobalFoundries, and seven quantum labs. Each comes with a minority federal stake.
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Apple shipped formal proofs for its post-quantum crypto. 2.5 billion devices now run verified code.
Apple's SEAR team published formal verification proofs for corecrypto's ML-KEM and ML-DSA implementations. 50,000 proof steps cover 2.5 billion active devices.
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GnuPG 2.5.19 lands ML-KEM in mainline. Post-quantum OpenPGP is no longer a side branch.
Werner Koch shipped GnuPG 2.5.19 on April 24 with FIPS-203 ML-KEM, the first stable post-quantum encryption algorithm in OpenPGP. Here's what changed and what didn't.
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Google just moved 'Q-Day' to 2029. Here's what that changes for your crypto stack
Google's security team says cryptographically-relevant quantum computers could arrive by 2029, six years before the NSA's 2031 deadline. What to migrate, and in what order.