IonQ Claims First Real-Time Quantum Error Decoder, Shares Jump 12%

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IonQ said it tested the industry's first real-time quantum error decoder, sending its shares up 12% in premarket trading and lifting the broader quantum sector, with Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum each up more than 5.5% and Infleqtion rising a similar amount. Worthington Enterprises surged about 16% after first-quarter adjusted earnings and revenue surpassed Street estimates, with CEO Joseph Hayek citing rapidly growing demand for the company's engineered American Society of Mechanical Engineers tanks used in liquid cooling systems for data centers. KB Home fell more than 1% after projecting fourth-quarter deliveries below expectations and housing gross margins of 16% to 16.6%, short of the 17.2% analysts polled by LSEG sought. Six Flags Entertainment rose 1% after a Wall Street Journal report that activist hedge fund Jana Partners was encouraging the company to explore a sale, following the fund's disappointment with Six Flags' second-quarter earnings report. Maplebear, the Instacart owner, gained more than 3% after announcing that customers on its grocery platform can use Meta's personal AI agent Muse, joining OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini as AI partners.

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Quantum Computing▲ · 4 stocks
IONQ Inc
IONQ
▲ PositiveTechnologyrelevance

IonQ said it tested the industry's first real-time quantum error decoder.

Infleqtion, Inc.
INFQ
▲ PositiveTechnologyrelevance

Infleqtion rose a similar amount as IonQ's quantum error-decoder news lifted the broader quantum sector.

Rigetti Computing Inc
RGTI
▲ PositiveTechnologyrelevance

Rigetti gained more than 5.5% amid the sector-wide lift from IonQ's quantum error-decoder breakthrough.

Consumer Discretionary± Mixed · 2 stocks
KB Home
KBH
▼ NegativeCapitalrelevance

KB Home projected Q4 deliveries below expectations and housing gross margins short of analyst estimates.

Cloud & Digital Infrastructure▲ · 1 stocks
Maplebear Inc.
CART
▲ PositiveTechnologyrelevance

Instacart customers can now use Meta's AI agent Muse on its grocery platform, adding an AI partner.

Materials▲ · 1 stocks
Worthington Industries Inc
WOR
▲ PositiveDemandrelevance

Q1 adjusted earnings and revenue beat estimates, with CEO citing rapidly growing demand for ASME tanks used in data-center liquid cooling.

Artificial Intelligence▲ · 1 stocks
Spatial Computing / AR/VR▲ · 1 stocks

Off-coverage companies 3

AnthropicPrivate± Mixed
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JANA PartnersPrivate± Mixed
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OpenAIPrivate± Mixed
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