Trump Administration Seeks Government Equity Stakes in Quantum Computing Firms
Trump officials negotiated with quantum computing firms (IonQ, Rigetti, D-Wave) to trade federal funding for government ownership stakes, mirroring state control models used by authoritarian regimes. Commerce official Paul Dabbar and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick led negotiations to embed …
Paul Dabbar
Howard Lutnick
Trump Administration
quantum computing companies
corruption
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institutional-capture
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