Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Chandigarh University’s CUBIC, India’s first university-led quantum incubator for deep-tech startups became an academic and incubation partner for PRAGATI Q-Foundry 2026, a national initiative of the Ministry of Science and Technology, aimed at accel … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — When the scientific community discusses quantum computers, it is usually the question of the underlying system that causes division. Ion traps, Rydberg atoms, or perhaps superconducting circuits? At Leibniz University Hannover, Dr Kai Voges has launc … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — RapidFort, the leader in Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) with the largest distribution of curated truly open-source software, today announced it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with SpaceWERX, the innovation … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Creating a quantum device often begins by intentionally damaging a crystal. Scientists fire an ultrafast laser pulse into a material, knocking atoms out of place and leaving behind tiny imperfections called vacancies. Far from being flaws, these vaca … | Continue reading
Insider Brief Cisco has introduced two research prototypes designed to coordinate quantum networks, aiming to make connected quantum machines easier to operate and use. The company’s Quantum Network Controller and updated Network-Aware Quantum Compiler address different parts of … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantus, the proof-of-work blockchain built for quantum-safe money, today opened trading for its native token QTC, with near.com as its launch venue. Holders of BTC, ETH, USDC, ZEC, and 180+ other assets across 30+ chains can buy QTC confidentially f … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuantumCT celebrated the opening of its new home at 101 College Street, establishing a central hub for building Connecticut’s quantum technology ecosystem and moving scientific discoveries from the laboratory into practical applications. By bringing … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Zapata Quantum (OTCQB: ZPTA) (“Zapata” or the “Company”) today announced it has joined the IBM Quantum Network with plans to use IBM’s world-class quantum computers with Zapata’s deep expertise in use-case discovery and application development. The C … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) (“SEALSQ” or “Company”), a company that focuses on developing and selling Semiconductors, PKI, and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software products, today announced that it led a $10 million private investment in publ … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — As quantum computing advances, it is creating new cybersecurity challenges that will require a workforce trained to protect critical systems and infrastructure. Yet few workforce development programs provide hands-on training that integrates quantum … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Pasqal (NASDAQ: PSQL), a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, is coordinating the implementation of Q-PLANET (Quantum Pilot Line for production of Advanced chips for Neutral atom European Technologies), co-funded by the EU Chips Joint Und … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Infleqtion (NYSE: INFQ), a global leader in quantum computing and quantum sensing powered by neutral atom technology, in collaboration with Honeywell Aerospace and Distinguished Professor Daniel J. Blumenthal of UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), announced dev … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Following Quantum World Congress (QWC) 2026 in Maryland, four Korean quantum startups have expanded their U.S. market engagement through the Global Bridge Program, spanning Wisconsin and Chicago. Spearheaded by the Korea Institute of Science and Tech … | Continue reading
Insider Brief India’s Startup Policy Forum launched a center to give deep-technology companies, including quantum startups, a sustained role in shaping national policy, according to a news release. The industry alliance said its Centre for DeepTech Innovation, called DeepVerse, w … | Continue reading
Insider Brief QuantumGate, a quantum-safe cybersecurity firm based in Abu Dhabi and a subsidiary of VentureOne, has entered a strategic collaboration with NEC Corporation’s GCC branch, the companies announced. The partnership is focused on accelerating the rollout of post-quantum … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited (“Xanadu“; NASDAQ/TSX: XNDU), a leading photonic quantum computing company, today announced a strategic multi-year partnership with GlobalFoundries (GF), a leading semiconductor manufacturer, to address the high-vo … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — PQShield, a global leader in post-quantum cryptography (PQC), is strengthening its leadership team with two major hires, as demand for quantum-safe security accelerates across governments, critical infrastructure and major technology providers. Hal C … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — “Finland already has strong scientific expertise in quantum technologies. What is still needed is determined R&D, piloting and innovation to accelerate commercialisation,” says Jani Kivioja, who has been appointed Vice President of VTT’s Quantum Tech … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuantWare, the industrial quantum processor company, today announced that Bart Filius will join the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective 12 October 2026. Filius will also join the Board of Directors of QuantWare, as the company scales … | Continue reading
Insider Brief The Netherlands plans to turn its quantum research strengths into commercial products while preparing government systems for computers that could defeat widely used encryption. A new governmentwide quantum strategy sets a 2035 goal for technological leadership, grea … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — For highly fragile quantum information systems, the ability to store quantum information is vital — but also challenging. Quantum information is transported in particles of light called photons, which often must be temporarily paused (or “stored”) wh … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Even the most chaotic quantum systems keep a permanent mark of their own past – a “quantum birthmark” – that never fades. Researchers from Tampere University, Harvard University, and TU Dresden discovered the feature in their recent study. Their find … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — planqc and the LOGIQC consortium have been selected as one of six consortia to compete in Germany’s Quantum Computing Competition (QCC). The QCC is a major initiative of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) to advance error- … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Journalists, authors, filmmakers, and other creators can now prove that their work is theirs, and that it has not been changed, with a tag built for the post-quantum era and recorded on an immutable, decentralized distributed ledger. The AI Lab (thea … | Continue reading
The Quantum Insider joined more than 2,500 participants in Berlin for Bitkom’s AI, Data & Quantum Summit, where AI kept turning up inside quantum. Berlin became the meeting point for Europe’s AI and quantum communities on 22 and 23 September, when Bitkom’s AI, Data & Quantum Summ … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) (“D-Wave”), the only dual-platform quantum computing company providing annealing and gate-model systems, software and services, and the Supply Chain Management Research Center in the Sam M. Walton College of Busines … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum technology leaders from research, industry, government and finance will gather at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence on April 1-2, 2027, for Quantum Renaissance, a two-day event examining the development and wider implications of quantum technology. … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — DecaQ today announced the availability of DecaQ Cloud Beta 2, bringing 400 logical digital qubits, six quantum algorithm families, and up to 200,000 digital oracle gates to its cloud platform. DecaQ is deterministic digital quantum computation powere … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantinuum (NASDAQ: QNT), a leading quantum computing company, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The University of Western Australia (UWA) to advance Australia’s quantum capability by expanding access to advanced … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The second international Quantum Datacenter Alliance (QDA) Forum highlighted the progress towards commercial deployments and acceleration of distributed quantum computing architectures, while also outlining the next critical areas of focus for progre … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) (“SEALSQ” or “Company”), a company that focuses on developing and selling Semiconductors, PKI, and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software products, today announced that its sister company, WISeSat.Space Holdings Corp … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Understanding why some superconducting qubits outperform others remains one of the most important challenges in quantum computing. As long as the quantum state in a qubit maintains its coherence and does not decay, information can be held and potenti … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — planqc has been honored at the Made in Europe Award 2026 in the Commercialising category, presented last night in Berlin by Thomas Jarzombek, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and State Modernisation. The award … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Contrivian, a technology company providing intelligent mission-critical connectivity, has launched Contrivian Government Solutions, a dedicated division focused on delivering secure, mission-critical connectivity for US federal agencies and defense o … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QNu Labs (www.qnulabs.com), a global leader in end-to-end hybrid quantum cybersecurity solutions, along with the Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N), and IIT Gandhinagar, have successfully completed … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — By superimposing two ultrashort laser pulses that converge from different directions, a team of physicists at the University of Oldenburg in Germany has succeeded in generating three-dimensional light fields. Using the same method, they were also abl … | Continue reading
Yuval Boger interviews Helmut Katzgraber, general partner at 55North and former quantum leader at AWS. They discuss Helmut’s view that the most promising near- to mid-term quantum applications are in quantum simulation for materials, chemicals, and pharma, rather than optimizatio … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IBM today announced expansions of two long-standing research collaborations in India: one with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and another with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to accelerate innovation in agentic AI, sovereign … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — More than 450 business leaders, technology innovators, researchers and public officials gathered in Chattanooga today for the Quantum in Business conference presented by EPB QuantumSM. The event highlighted Tennessee and Chattanooga’s growing role in … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Metrosert, Estonia’s Applied Research Centre and National Metrology Institute, invites Estonian companies as well as students, researchers and other interested participants from the Nordic and Baltic countries to apply for the QEst Hack 2026 quantum … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Working in close collaboration, researchers from Paderborn University, the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have made a significant breakthrough in the field of quantum communication. In their recently published paper in the prestigious … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) and Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, have progressed to Stage 2 of the Australian Government’s Critical Technologies Challenge Program (CTCP), receiving A$3.6 million (US$2.5m) in funding to conti … | Continue reading
Insider Brief The rise of artificial intelligence has raised a new question about whether the next major computing technology will add another large load to power grids. Some experts are worried that quantum systems might do the same as they scale. A Boston Consulting Group study … | Continue reading
By Sophya Garashchuk, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina For The Conversation The objects you interact with every day are predictable – you can pick up a box, sit down in a chair without falling to the floor, or open a door without your hand pas … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quanome Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: QNME) (“Quanome” or the “Company”), has entered into a revolving loan agreement with the Company’s CEO and Chairman, Yang Li, for up to $15 million in non-dilutive growth capital. The arrangement gives Quanome an … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum technology leaders from research, industry, government and finance will gather at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence on April 1-2, 2027, for Quantum Renaissance, a two-day event examining the development and wider implications of quantum technology. … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Pasqal (NASDAQ: PSQL), a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the appointment of Florence Lao as Chief Legal Officer. In this role, she will serve as a strategic advisor to Pasqal’s executive leadership team and Board of D … | Continue reading
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers at Tohoku University, in collaboration with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the University of Tokyo, have taken an important step toward semiconductor quantum computing using zinc oxide (ZnO). The team successfully … | Continue reading