The Quantum Weekly: Startup Has Brains of a Deep Tech Firm, Heart of a Scrappy Small Business
Preaching small business values for quantum computing startup, US wants to boost funding for QC projects, Baidu paddles its way to the quantum future and more in this edition of The Quantum Weekly.
Spotlight Story: Build Something That Customers Care About…
“I want the psychology of our company to be oriented as a business. Yeah, we have a deeply technical product and team, but fundamentally what we need to be doing is building something customers care about.” — The Quantum Daily.
Science and Technology
Quantum Machine Learning Is The Next Big Thing — The Quantum Daily
A Quantum Smartphone? Samsung and SK Telecom Super Secured by ID Quantique’s Quantum Chip — The Quantum Daily
TQD Exclusive: The History of Quantum Computing — The Quantum Daily
This 90 Year Old Math Problem Shows Why We Need Quantum Computers — Forbes
Quantum Technologies Suit Up for the Battlefield — AFCEA
Business
Paddling Back: Baidu Makes Good on Its Quantum Promise with Machine Learning Toolkit — The Quantum Daily
U.S. Legislation Would Mandate Study of Quantum Computing, QC Ecosystem — The Quantum Daily
Quantum Startup ‘Alice&Bob’ Raises $3.3 Million for Plans to Build Error-free Quantum Computer — The Quantum Daily
TQD Exclusive: Cogniframe Brings The Best of Both Worlds — The Quantum Daily
Opinion
China’s Post-Covid 19 ‘Techno-Nationalist’ Industrial Policy — EU Observer
Jobs
Nanofabrication Engineer — OQC
Quantum Control Engineer – Q-CTRL
Platform Engineer – Tech lead — Riverlane
QKD Researcher — QEYnet
Director of Research, Quantum Computing Software for Finance — QuantFi
Applied Quantum Computing Scientist — BI X GmbH at Boehringer Ingelheim
Post-Doctoral Research Position in Superconducting Qubits and Circuit QED — Aalto University
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Matt Swayne
With a several-decades long background in journalism and communications, Matt Swayne has worked as a science communicator for an R1 university for more than 12 years, specializing in translating high tech and deep tech for the general audience. He has served as a writer, editor and analyst at The Quantum Insider since its inception. In addition to his service as a science communicator, Matt also develops courses to improve the media and communications skills of scientists and has taught courses.
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SK Telecom
SK Telecom is one of the largest wireless telecommunications operator in South Korea, serving around 30.5 million mobile customers. The company additionally possesses SK Broadband (formerly known as Hanaro Telecom), catering to 6.7 million broadband customers and 9.4 million pay TV customers (including 6.6 million IPTV and 2.8 million Cable TV subscribers). Alongside its core services, SK Telecom ventured into security, semiconductor memory production, e-commerce, and internet platform businesses, but these endeavors were subsequently consolidated into the distinct SK Square business in November 2021.
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![ID Quantique [Acquired by IonQ]](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/tqd.s3.bucket/prod/images/id_quantique_acquired_by_ionq.jpg)
ID Quantique [Acquired by IonQ]
ID Quantique is a global company focused in quantum cryptography and sensing founded in 2001 as a spin-off from the University of Geneva. The company provides ECSS certified quantum random number generators and opto-pyrotechnic controls for launchers like Ariane 6. It was acquired by IonQ in May 2025.
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Alice&Bob
Alice&Bob are working towards building an error corrected, fault tolerant quantum computer. They are working with superconducting circuits called ‘Cat Qubits’ which reduce the hardware required for error correction. With a cat Qubit, it is possible to stabilize two particular states in which quantum information is encoded autonomously.
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