Insider Brief Governments are establishing timelines for the transition to post-quantum cryptography, with requirements extending beyond public sector organizations. These timelines apply to federal agencies, contractors, and sectors handling regulated or sensitive data. NIST gui … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Bloq Quantum, a startup founded by a team of IISER and U of T Alumni, today announced the official launch of its drag-and-drop quantum computing platform. The platform helps companies and universities build and use quantum programs 10x faster than tr … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Firgun Ventures, a $250 million Quantum fund, today announced its first European investment: Quantum Motion, a London-headquartered quantum computing scale-up. Firgun is participating in Quantum Motion’s $160 million Series C, along with co-leads D … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A group of physicists at ParityQC and the University of Innsbruck has introduced the Parity Unfolded Distillation Architecture, a fault-tolerant quantum computing scheme that significantly lowers the required resource overhead. Achieving useful and u … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative (CQC) and BuildWithin today launched the nation’s first quantum pre-apprenticeship: a paid, 12-week program built on the U.S. Department of Labor’s apprenticeship framework and designed to prepare early and mid-c … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quandela and Safran Tech, Safran’s research and technology centre, have announced the launch of the AQeFLU research project. This partnership aims to develop new quantum algorithms dedicated to the complex modelling of fluid flows. The simulation of … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum Motion, the leading company in silicon transistor-based quantum computing, today announced a $160 million Series C round to commercialize its scalable and energy-efficient approach to quantum computing. The round is co-led by DCVC and Kembara … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Bluefors has joined the Chicago Quantum Exchange, strengthening CQE’s Midwest roots as the region expands efforts to build a quantum supply chain, expand innovation capacity, and scale a quantum workforce. Bluefors plays a vital role in all three are … | Continue reading
Insider Brief IonQ posted a sharp jump in quarterly revenue and raised its full-year outlook as the quantum computing company pushed deeper into government, research, and networking contracts. IonQ said first-quarter 2026 revenue reached $64.7 million, up 755% from a year earlier … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Haiqu, a leading developer of quantum middleware, today announced the launch of its Agentic Quantum Operating System (OS), the first full-stack quantum intelligence platform for enterprise and scientific quantum R&D. Currently, quantum development is … | Continue reading
Insider Brief European AI startup QuTwo raised a €25 million angel financing round, increasing its valuation of roughly $380 million, TechCrunch is reporting. The round offers further evidence of continued investor appetite for both artificial intelligence and quantum-enhanced co … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The University of California Board of Regents on May 5 approved Katherine Yelick as the next director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Her appointment as director begins on July 1. Yelick is a leading computer scientist with a … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — ORCA Computing, a leading quantum computing company, and SiC Systems, a leader in physics-informed multi-agent AI for industrial process systems, today announced a strategic partnership to apply hybrid quantum–classical computing to industrial agenti … | Continue reading
Insider Brief South Korea is expanding its post-quantum cryptography implementation across critical infrastructure sectors. The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) announced it will broaden its pilot conversion project for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to include telecommunicati … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — What do cars, bridges and airplanes have in common? They are all exposed to the open air most of the time and are subjected to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Airplanes are particularly vulnerable to this radiation, as UV radiation is very inte … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Q-CTRL, the global leader in quantum infrastructure software, today announced it has achieved a 3,000 times speedup on a problem of commercial relevance using the IBM Quantum Platform. Q-CTRL has achieved evidence of practical quantum advantage over … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Quantum Volume (QV) test is an internationally applied benchmark originally proposed by IBM. The benchmark rigorously assesses and describes the computational power of a quantum computer with a single number. The QV metric describes how many “goo … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) President Oh Sang-rok announced that it will participate in the SelectUSA Investment Summit 2026 as part of a Korean delegation, together with quantum technology startups supported by the Ministry … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuantWare, the leading industrial quantum processor company, today announced a $178 million (€152 million) Series B round following the announcement of VIO-40K™, a quantum processor architecture for 10,000 qubits, 100x larger than the state of the ar … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd. reported wider losses and outlined a hardware-and-software integration strategy following its public listing, according to a company statement. The Singapore-based company, which began trading on Nasdaq in March and is positioned as a d … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantinuum and BMW Group have formally expanded their ongoing collaboration into a multi-year partnership with a mission to unlock future mobility by applying quantum computing toward advanced materials science. Since 2021, Quantinuum and BMW Group h … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Clemson University is launching the South Carolina Quantum Sentinel (SC-Q-Sentinel), a ~$100,000 initiative focused on protecting smart city and Internet-of-Things (IoT) infrastructure, through cybersecurity research and workforce development. Led by … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum Art, an Israeli trapped-ion quantum computing company providing full-stack solutions, today announced the results of a joint project with a leading Israeli governmental research and development agency. The project focuses on developing quantu … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum Machines (QM), the leading provider of hybrid quantum-classical control solutions, today announced the acquisition of TU Delft spin-off QHarbor and the opening of a new office in Delft, the Netherlands. The move establishes a local base in on … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Deep-tech company eleQtron, a developer of trapped-ion quantum computers, has successfully closed a €57million Series A funding round. This funding round marks a significant step towards the industrial scaling of eleQtron’s technology and underscores … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Scientists at Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have used IBM quantum computers and two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to simulate protein complexes spanning up to 12,635 atoms. These are the largest-known simulations of biolo … | Continue reading
Insider Brief The encryption protecting most of the internet is expected to become vulnerable to sufficiently advanced quantum computers. RSA and elliptic curve cryptography, which secure online banking, email, cloud storage, and messaging systems, rely on mathematical problems t … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum eMotion Corp. (“QeM” or the “Company”) (NYSE: QNC; TSXV: QNC-V; FSE: 34Q0), a leader in quantum-secure cybersecurity solutions, is pleased to announce the launch and availability of eShield-Q, a new cybersecurity platform designed to address … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Magnons are tiny waves in magnetisation and ideal building blocks for hybrid quantum systems and quantum metrology. However, their previously too-short lifetime of at most a few hundred nanoseconds has been a hurdle. An international team of physicis … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Physicists at ParityQC have demonstrated that universal quantum computation driven purely by measurements in the YZ-plane of the Bloch sphere is possible. The resulting measurement patterns embed naturally into the ParityQC Architecture — providing … | Continue reading
Insider Brief: The digital era is giving way to something far more complex and consequential as AI embeds itself into core business decisions and quantum technologies enable data and information processing at phenomenal scales and speeds. Together, these technologies are redefini … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum technology company, today announced the commercial launch of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) capabilities through its space missions line. The offering enables millimeter-precision groun … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Harvard researchers say progress in quantum computing is running ahead of schedule, a pace that has already spawned three startups and is drawing billions in private investment to a technology that could transform industries, such as drug discovery to cryptography, … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Xanadu Quantum Technologies fell to $12 in pre-market trading Monday, down from a Friday close of $36.12, after the company filed a resale registration statement covering 293.6 million Class B Subordinate Voting Shares, Investing.com is reporting. The filing also co … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Every few months, a headline claims quantum computers are about to cure cancer or usher in a new era of artificial intelligence, but things aren’t that simple. Quantum computers cost tens of millions of dollars to build, and currently operate with error rates that l … | Continue reading
Insider Brief IBM’s decision to put a quantum computer on the cloud 10 years ago helped transform a niche research field into a globally accessible computing platform with growing industrial use. On May 4, 2016, IBM made its first quantum processor available over the internet, al … | Continue reading
Insider Brief IonQ is positioning itself as a full-stack quantum technology provider with growing commercial traction, arguing that recent technical and financial milestones mark a turning point for the industry, according to its latest annual letter from Chairman and CEO Niccolò … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — PsiQuantum today announced that Lip-Bu Tan, a leader of the semiconductor industry and Chief Executive Officer of Intel Corporation, has joined the PsiQuantum Board of Directors. Tan brings decades of experience building and scaling the foundational … | Continue reading
Yuval Boger interviews Joab Rosenberg, partner at Deep33, a new deep-tech venture fund focused on the future of compute. They discuss the fund’s investment thesis across quantum computing, AI infrastructure, and energy, and why Joab expects near-term commercial quantum applicatio … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Liquid Instruments, a pioneer in software-defined test solutions, today announced the close of its $50 million Series C funding round, co-led by Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a global leader in design, emulation, and test solutions, and t … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new type of quantum interaction using a single trapped ion. By creating and controlling increasingly complex forms of “squeezing” – including a fourth-order effect known as quadsqueezing – t … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE — Saarbrücken and Frankfurt, Germany | Monday March 23rd, 2026 – Following its ambition to become completely hardware agnostic, Qruise is working with XeedQ and the Modular Supercomputing and Quantum Computing (MSQC) group at Goethe University Frankfurt to enable re … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Adversaries are collecting encrypted data right now. They cannot read it yet. But they do not need to because their strategy involves intercepting communications, storing them, and simply waiting. When quantum computers become powerful enough to break today’s encryp … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Dallara Group, a world-leading racing and high-performance vehicle manufacturer, today announced a collaboration to advance vehicle design and optimization using AI and explore the use of quantum computing. The work combines D … | Continue reading
Insider Brief The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has advanced legislation that would extend and update the federal government’s quantum technology strategy, moving the effort one step closer to a full House vote, according to a press release. Lawmakers app … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum bits (qubits) are the fundamental building blocks of quantum information processing. A novel qubit platform invented at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory exhibits noise levels thousands of times lower than thos … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been selected to lead a project that will receive $4.1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as part of the Quantum Computing for Comp … | Continue reading
Executive Summary France’s quantum ecosystem continues to advance across policy, business, and research, with coordinated efforts to strengthen technological sovereignty, expand global partnerships, and accelerate the path to real-world applications. On the policy front, France i … | Continue reading