The US Is Forcing Others To Take Sides, As Is China

Quantum Stocks Erupt As U.S. Gov't Awards $2 Billion, Takes Equity Stakes IBM and small-cap quantum names, including IonQ, D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, Infleqtion, and other peers, are surging in New York premarket trading after a Wall Street Journal report said the Trump administration is preparing to award $2 billion in CHIPS Act grants to nine quantum-computing companies. IBM is set to receive half of the $2 billion tranche, or about $1 billion, as the large-cap leader in the race to build quantum computing systems that could revolutionize national security, accelerate...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that Iran’s proposal to the US to open the Strait of Hormuz within seven days was still on the table, comments that come as Iran has ramped up its attacks on shipping in the waterway. “Our situation is clear and based on ⁠the seven-days proposal presented to […]

At least 25 civilians were killed during a major Russian bombardment across Ukraine on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian officials, strikes that came a day after Ukrainian forces launched nearly 900 drones into Russia. The majority of the dead were killed by strikes that hit an apartment block in Pryluky, a city in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv […]