The timing of this WSJ scoop is interesting; it came out during negotiations—was it to pressure or to claim credit?

According to WSJ, the U.S. Department of Commerce is negotiating with several quantum computing companies, planning to exchange company equity for funding from the Trump administration. It is reported that the Department of Commerce intends to allocate a total of $2 billion in grants to nine quantum computing companies, with $1 billion awarded to IBM, chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries will receive $375 million, and publicly traded companies including D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Infleqtion will each receive $100 million. The startup Diraq is expected to receive $38 million.