$IONQ Niccolo de Masi gave an interview to AnewZ in Azerbaijan. He pitched Azerbaijan its own national priorities, with an IonQ tool behind each one. Start with oil and gas. Azerbaijan's economy runs on it. So that is where he led. A quantum computer to work out where the oil and gas sits underground and how best to get it out. Quantum sensors to map what lies beneath the surface. Then the Middle Corridor. Azerbaijan sits on the trade route that carries goods between China and Europe across the Caspian Sea. It is the country's biggest strategic card. He put three IonQ tools on it. The computer to plan the most efficient shipping routes. Satellites to track the ships. And a way to know exactly where a ship is when GPS fails or gets jammed, by precisely measuring its own movement instead. Then energy. Azerbaijan wants about a third of its electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. He knew the number. Quantum computers are good at simulating how molecules and materials behave, which is what designing better solar panels and batteries requires. He offered that. He also offered software to run the power grid more efficiently, the same kind IonQ already runs with a utility in Tennessee. None of this is built in Azerbaijan yet. It is a sales pitch. And that is the point. This is how IonQ sells to a country. It does not arrive with a demo of what quantum might do someday. It arrives with the country's own list of goals and puts a different IonQ tool behind each one. It can do that because it sells more than a computer. It sells sensors, satellites, and navigation too. A company that only made quantum computers could not pitch a whole nation its entire agenda. Most of the industry is still trying to convince people that quantum is real. de Masi is handing a country its own to-do list and saying quantum will get it done.

$IONQ Einride is a Swedish electric and autonomous freight company. Customers include Amazon, PepsiCo, Heineken, and GE Appliances. Einride plans its truck schedules with a software platform called Saga AI. Saga AI matches shipments to trucks, accounts for charging time, and keeps drivers within their shift limits. Sometimes shipments get canceled. The truck has an empty gap in its day. This empty gap is lost revenue. Filling those gaps with the right replacement is hard, because the best choice for one truck depends on what other trucks are doing. In May 2025 IonQ and Einride signed a three-year partnership to bring quantum computing into Saga AI. The partnership identified fifteen possible use cases. IonQ joined Einride's October 2025 funding round as a strategic investor. A new paper from IonQ and Einride describes one of those use cases and what they built. Einride's existing software does the baseline planning. IonQ's quantum computer chooses which shipments fill the empty gaps. Einride's software then refines the schedule around the quantum choice. The best scenarios show up to 12% more shipments delivered and up to 6% less drive distance per shipment. Total operational cost stays effectively unchanged. The averages across all tested scenarios are smaller. About 2% more shipments delivered. The system ran on IonQ's Forte quantum hardware for problems of up to 32 qubits. The hardware results matched what the simulations predicted. Einride CEO Roozbeh Charli described the approach as "a hybrid approach that combines our state-of-the-art in-house optimization algorithms with IonQ's quantum technology." Niccolo de Masi in December 2025: "IonQ's mission is to bring quantum advantages to real-world industries, and logistics is one of the most compelling use cases." The paper is that case in numbers.