After the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration is in talks to acquire equity stakes in quantum computing companies, including of IonQ (IONQ), Rigetti (RGTI), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), and Quantum Computing (QUBT), a U.S. Department of Commerce official told Reuters in an email that the department is “not currently negotiating with any of the companies.”
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