A company pledges $9B over five years toward a 2029 quantum machine

Claim

IBM seeded its Anderon foundry with $2 billion, half from Washington, and pledged $9 billion more over five years toward its 2029 Starling machine.

Reported metric: $9B / 2029

Reporting date: 2026-06-28 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to June 28, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)