• IBM advanced to Stage C of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, moving into independent testing of its quantum hardware.
• Selection triggers verification work by DARPA’s IV&V team to assess IBM’s path to a fault-tolerant quantum computer.
• IBM reiterated its target to deliver its first fault-tolerant system in 2029, ahead of DARPA’s 2033 program goal.
• IBM cited progress on core fault-tolerance hardware components, supported by recent advances in efficient error-correction decoding.

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