{"id":137966,"date":"2025-09-12T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137966\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:22:12","slug":"uk-imposes-safeguards-on-quantum-computing-sale-to-friendly-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137966\/","title":{"rendered":"UK imposes safeguards on quantum computing sale to friendly buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ewogICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAiYnVja2V0IjogImZpbGVzLmxici5jbG91ZCIsCiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                        Credit: shutterstock\/HAKINMHAN<\/p>\n<p>The UK government has cleared the $1.1 billion takeover of Oxford Ionics by US-based IonQ, subject to national security conditions that will ensure the country retains access to key quantum computing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\n                Subscribe to Global Competition Review\n            <\/p>\n<p>                    Register for limited access<\/p>\n<p>Register for free to unlock full access to our Insight content, including Guides, Reviews and Hubs. Plus, get our newsletter straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/globalcompetitionreview.com\/account\/register\" class=\"btn btn-lg mb-xs-4 mb-md-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register now<\/a><br \/>\n                            Subscribe to unlock unlimited access<\/p>\n<p>Get news, unique commentary, expert analysis and essential resources from the Global Competition Review experts.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/globalcompetitionreview.com\/info\/subscribe\" class=\"btn btn-lg mb-xs-4 mb-md-0 mb-lg-5 mb-xl-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Already have access? Login below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: shutterstock\/HAKINMHAN The UK government has cleared the $1.1 billion takeover of Oxford Ionics by US-based IonQ, subject&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-137966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}