The U.S. government is thinking about diversifying its investment portfolio. At least five quantum computing funds are in different stages of talks or consideration about exchanging stakes in their company in return for federal funding, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The discussions come just two months after the government took a 10% equity stake in Intel and a little more than three months after the Pentagon took a 15% stake in the largest rare earths miner in the U.S. IonQ, Rigetti ...