Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Sygaldry Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has raised $139M in Series A and Seed financing to build quantum-accelerated AI servers. The $105M Series A in March 2026 was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, following a $34M seed round led by … | Continue reading
Guest Post by By Itamar Sivan, CEO and Co-Founder, Quantum Machines For the past decade, quantum computing has often been framed as a race for better, more stable qubits, lower error rates, and larger-scale systems. But after spending years working across the global quantum ecosy … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Xanadu reported a sharp increase in revenue and outlined plans for expanded manufacturing and capital access as the photonic quantum computing company navigates its first months as a publicly traded firm. The Canadian company said first-quarter revenue rose fourfold … | Continue reading
Yuval Boger interviews Bob Sorensen of Hyperion Research about the growing convergence of quantum computing and high-performance computing. They outline a problem-first adoption playbook for HPC centers: identify bottlenecks, benchmark classical options and costs, then evaluate q … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S. National Science Foundation announced $1.5 billion over the next decade toward the NSF X-Labs initiative to tackle pressing scientific challenges through novel and innovative research partnerships. This substantial long-term investment under … | Continue reading
Origin Quantum unveiled its fourth-generation superconducting quantum computer, Origin Wukong-180, on Saturday. The quantum computer is equipped with a self-developed superconducting quantum chip and began accepting quantum computing tasks from across the globe starting Saturday, … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Quantum computing is one of those rare technologies where geopolitics and physics have become genuinely inseparable. China is not building quantum computers because they are interesting. China is building quantum computers because the United States is building quant … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Equal1 today announced a milestone in the evolution of quantum computing with the global release of Equal1 RacQ. RacQ, the next generation evolution of our Bell-1 Server, represents the world’s first deployable rack-mounted silicon-spin quantum compu … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum technologies, which harness nature at the tiniest scales, hold the potential to transform how people compute, communicate and sense their environments. Critical areas that could benefit from emerging quantum technology include AI design of ne … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QNu Labs (www.qnulabs.com), a global leader in end-to-end hybrid quantum cybersecurity solutions, has been recognised as a ‘Global Established Leader’ in the MarketsandMarkets 360Quadrants Quantum Key Distribution Company Evaluation Report, 2026, a s … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Another Canadian Q-unicorn spotted. Canadian quantum startup Nord Quantique has reached a valuation of roughly US$1.4 billion after a quiet financing round led by investment giant Fidelity Investments, according to a report by The Globe and Mail. It’s yet another mo … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Post-quantum cryptography migration is increasingly treated as necessary as quantum computing research progresses. One key variable is cost, which rises as timelines compress and resource demand grows. Organizations beginning earlier work with evolving tools and lim … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Finnish quantum computing company IQM Finland Oy moved closer to a U.S. public listing after filing registration documents tied to its planned merger with special purpose acquisition company Real Asset Acquisition Corp., as the company seeks fresh capital to expand … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Planckian today announced the appointment of Prof. Seth Lloyd as Founding Fellow. Lloyd, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and one of the foundational figures in quantum computing, will support Planckian’s technical roadmap with a focus on e … | Continue reading
Guest Post by By Meric Kucukbas Industry has yet to encounter quantum computing in any meaningful way, and even fewer professionals could clearly define it. Yet Ireland is increasingly positioning itself as a country helping to define what comes next. For starters, back in the 1 … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A new research project should make it possible to see cancer activity before the disease can be detected with conventional scans. The goal is to bring a new type of quantum reinforced MR technology into the clinic, so doctors get a whole new tool to … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Google is investing $10 million in a new research effort aimed at applying quantum computing, quantum sensing and artificial intelligence to biology and medicine, as large technology companies continue searching for practical uses for emerging quantum systems. The i … | Continue reading
By Matt Cimaglia I spent the evening of May 5 at CUNY’s Advanced Science Research Center for a panel called Quantum Harlem: Building New York’s Quantum Innovation Community. One number framed the whole evening for me. Tim Dutta of QuantumCue noted that the global quantum workforc … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Infleqtion (NYSE: INFQ), a global leader in quantum computing and quantum sensing powered by neutral-atom technology, today formally established Quantum Spectrum as a new category within quantum sensing. Quantum Spectrum represents the first fundamen … | Continue reading
Insider Brief A team of scientists say they developed a three-dimensional quantum system that can store quantum information for exponentially long periods at finite temperatures without active error correction. That advance — something that most physicists believed could not happ … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a robot working alongside humans is in need of a human-like skin for safer interaction… But what if that skin is superhuman and also has the capability to sense things coming towards it as well as when they … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — NVision, a leader in quantum technologies for healthcare, today announced a $55 million Series B financing round anchored by Abbott. The company also announced a major expansion from quantum sensing into quantum computing, advancing its efforts to bu … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Quantum computing is emerging as a governance issue for institutional investors long before it becomes a mainstream investing tool. In an article published in Institutional Investor, Angelo Calvello writes that asset owners risk repeating the mistakes many made duri … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SEETEL New Energy Co., Ltd., (7740.TW), Aegis Critical Energy Defence Corp. (CSE: QESS) (OTCQB: QESSF) (FSE: JG6) and Quantum eMotion Corp. (NYSE: QNC; TSXV: QNC; FSE: 34Q0) today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to integrate qu … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Today, Governor Polis and the Global Business Development Division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) celebrated IonQ’s (NYSE: IONQ) new laboratory suite in Boulder, Colorado. The suite will house state-of- … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Quantum Computing Inc. reported higher first-quarter revenue following two acquisitions that expanded the company’s photonics manufacturing and quantum communications capabilities, while operating losses widened as spending accelerated. The company, which develops q … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Photonic Inc., a global leader in distributed quantum computing, today announced the final close of over $200M USD ($275M CAD) in investment, giving the company a $2B USD ($2.7B CAD) post-money valuation. The round, led by Planet First Partners, a UK … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — New York University’s NYU Nanofabrication Cleanroom has enhanced its quantum fabrication capabilities by installing an Oxford Instruments PlasmaPro ASP atomic layer deposition (ALD) system, becoming the first in the United States to utilise this tech … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quobly, a French pioneer in silicon-based quantum computing, and Taiwan’s Hon Hai Research Institute, the R&D arm of Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), today announced the release of an open-source numerical toolbox, jointly developed by the two par … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Casimir, Inc., a quantum energy technology company founded by former NASA advanced propulsion researcher Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, today announced the close of a $12 million seed round led by Scout Ventures. The funding will commercialize the world’s … | Continue reading
Insider Brief D-Wave Quantum reported a sharp rise in bookings for the first quarter even as revenue fell from a year earlier, reflecting the uneven but accelerating commercialization cycle of the quantum computing industry. In a statement, the quantum computing company reported … | Continue reading
Insider Brief French and German quantum technology leaders are moving to tighten cross-border cooperation as Europe races to build a domestic industry capable of competing with U.S. and Chinese advances in the field, according to a news release. More than 100 representatives from … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — According to the European Commission, by 2040, the quantum sector is expected to create thousands of highly skilled jobs across the EU and exceed a global value of €155 billion. A recent study on quantum technology by the European Patent Office and t … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum software company Algorithmiq has established Milan as its global headquarters, signalling its confidence and commitment to Italy and Europe as the future hub for leadership in the industrialisation of quantum algorithms. To date, the quantum … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IQM Quantum Computers today launched HPC Integration Service, a turnkey solution that enables its IQM Radiance quantum computers to operate as a slurm node inside high-performance computing (HPC) environment. Using this widely adopted HPC workflow, … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Migration to post-quantum cryptography depends on identifying where existing cryptographic systems are deployed. In many organizations, this inventory is incomplete. Encryption is embedded across enterprise infrastructure, including TLS certificates, firmware, boot … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — New York University and IBM have initiated a postdoctoral program to conduct quantum computer research in the areas of chemistry, computer science, engineering, materials science, physics, and optimization. This collaboration, as part of NYU’s role a … | Continue reading
Insider Brief In 1935, Albert Einstein looked at what quantum mechanics was claiming about reality and called it “spooky action at a distance.” He said this as an insult. Decades of experiments later, the universe has confirmed the spookiness is real – and that Einstein was wrong … | Continue reading
Insider Brief A quantum device — about the size of a grapefruit, or, if you’re not a fan of that particular fruit, about the size of a shoe box — using flawed diamonds successfully measured Earth’s magnetic field from the International Space Station over 10 months, demonstrating … | Continue reading
By Michael J. Biercuk and Alex Shih The relevance of quantum computing will ultimately hinge on one thing: whether a customer achieves a positive ROI from a quantum solution over an alternative computing tool for their problem. The point at which this is definitively achieved is … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The King’s Foundation and FormationQ today announced a new partnership to showcase how towns and cities across the Commonwealth can grow sustainably using quantum technology. The partnership, entitled Harmonious Urban Growth: A Health-Optimised Expa … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SkyWater Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKYT) (the “Company”), the largest exclusively U.S.-based, semiconductor foundry, today announced that its stockholders approved at a special meeting held earlier today, the Company’s previously announced merger agr … | Continue reading
Yuval Boger interviews Scott Aaronson, a UT Austin computer science professor known for his work on quantum computing theory. They explore the current state of quantum hardware, the narrowing case for quantum skepticism, and the realistic path toward fault-tolerant, useful quantu … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) today announced that Quantinuum, a leading, full-stack quantum computing company, has publicly filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to a proposed init … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Chinese startup CAS Cold Atom Technology said it has built what it’s saying is the world’s first dual-core neutral atom quantum computer. The claim comes as China pushed to compete in quantum computing, one of the most closely watched areas of advanced computing. Th … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Machine learning already drives decisions across finance, drug discovery, logistics, and manufacturing. But the datasets and problems involved are growing in ways that strain classical hardware. Quantum Machine Learning (QML) asks whether quantum computers, with the … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Business leaders watching quantum computing from the sidelines risk falling behind companies already shaping how the technology will create value, according to the MIT Sloan Management Review. The conventional business approach to quantum computing — wait until it’s … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Exactly five years after its launch, Graduate Ventures is celebrating its 80th investment. The milestone backing goes to FrostByte, a Delft startup whose technology makes it possible to build quantum computers at greater scale. The investment is part … | Continue reading