D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum each finalized $100M CHIPS Act agreements with the Commerce Department on 8 September, with the federal government taking a minority, non-controlling equity stake as a condition. PsiQuantum signed for $100M separately. Every project is about manufacturing — traps, cryostats, detectors, packaging — not algorithms.
DOCOMO deployed a second production quantum application built on D-Wave's annealer, optimizing tracking-area lists across its mobile network. Location-registration signals fell 65.3% at the daily peak and paging signals 7.0%, cutting signalling load without new hardware.
D-Wave and Nasdaq Verafin signed an agreement to evaluate quantum computing for detecting fraud, scams and money laundering, starting with a proof-of-concept that could expand into pilots. Verafin will explore D-Wave's quantum-hybrid annealing on patterns across account activity, transactions and counterparty networks. D-Wave filed an 8-K on the agreement.
AT&T signed an agreement to expand use of D-Wave's annealing quantum computers across network operations, after an early workload ran 240x faster — about an hour down to under 15 seconds. Next uses: outage response, technician routing, network planning, traffic management, layered into AT&T's agentic AI tools. D-Wave shares jumped ~20%.