IonQ to Acquire Zero-Trust Firm Elisity for Up to $1.3B to Govern AI Agent Networks

IonQ announced on October 12 an all-stock agreement to acquire Elisity for up to $1.3B, including $150M in performance earnouts, with closing targeted for Q4. Elisity's zero-trust platform restricts which users, devices, workloads and AI agents can talk on enterprise networks via least-privilege policies; IonQ plans to pair that with its post-quantum cryptography and QKD pitch to CISOs.