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IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) surged 9% following award-winning quantum research with NVIDIA and Synopsys. Read the full analysis.
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IonQ has received $7.5 million in additional funding from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to further the development of its full-stack quantum networking technology.
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