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• IonQ revenue surged 287% to $80M while D-Wave missed estimates at $3M but piled up $35.5M in first-half bookings.

• AT&T used D-Wave’s annealing system to slash a network optimization job from one hour to under 15 seconds.

• IonQ’s $1.24B cash and $485M backlog give it runway, but $141.8M in quarterly stock-based pay steadily dilutes shareholders.

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IonQ (NYSE:IONQ) and D-Wave Quantum (NYSE:QBTS) reported second-quarter results one day apart in…