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Aug 11 – Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN<\/a>) just made a bold move into quantum computing with a $36.7 million stake <\/a>in IonQ (NYSE:IONQ<\/a>), revealed in its latest SEC filing. That instantly puts the e-commerce giant among the largest tech investors in a publicly traded quantum hardware company. IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum computers already power workloads on AWS’s Braket service, so this deal looks like more than just a passive bet. IonQ shares popped about 7% after the news.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In France, quantum startup Alice & Bob, alongside Inria, has unveiled a new Heart Code method for preparing magic states using only 53 qubits, 8.7% fewer than leading methods, while cutting processing time by a factor of five. The approach runs on their current cat qubit hardware, boosting scalability without major retooling.<\/p>\n In the meantime, Japan rolled out its first entirely domestic superconducting quantum computer at Osaka University, in pursuit of technology independence, and Quantinuum, funded by Honeywell (NASDAQ:HON<\/a>), teamed up with the Technology Innovation Institute in the UAE to boost Gulf quantum research.<\/p>\n All of this shows that the big Tech, startups, governments are pushing to commercialize quantum theory, now, and sooner, at less cost and on grand scale.<\/p>\n