Oratomic Raises Fresh Money for a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

Issue #151 • Friday 9 October 2026 • Standard run, gap 1 day • 36 new items across 12 sections • Covers 8 October from 08:17Z to 9 October at 08:35Z

Investors put £358.8m ($475m) into Oratomic, a Californian start-up founded last year that builds quantum computers from single atoms, three months after its first big round. Such machines could one day break the encryption banks rely on. OpenAI told investors its annualised revenue is about £37.8bn ($50bn), some £15.1bn ($20bn) below figures circulating last month, and AI shares fell. Britain sanctioned three crypto exchanges and two payment platforms linked to a Russian money network. The FCA wants savers in property funds to wait 90 days for their cash. Five of the twelve areas covered are heating or hot, led by quantum computing, AI money and sanctions.