Northrop Grumman reports microwave-free, 10-nanosecond readout across 282 superconducting qubits

Verdict: MONITOR

The preprint targets a real scaling bottleneck and reports greater than 99% readout accuracy; It does not yet show an integrated processor, error-corrected computation or independent replication.

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