The Quantum Kid turns 1! (and Kai turns 10)
Insider Brief: He giggles. He makes faces. And he loves to ask big questions – about time, quarks, the Universe, and everything. He’s 10 now – Kai Weber, one of the youngest science YouTubers out there and possibly the youngest quantum YouTuber, celebrated his birthday by recording an anniversary episode for his YouTube channel, The […]
Q*Bird Launches the Falqon Key Manager to Enable Scalable Quantum Secure Networks
Insider Brief Press release – Q*Bird today announced the launch of the Falqon® Key Manager, a standalone quantum key management system designed to enable scalable, interoperable and hybrid quantum secure networks. As organisations prepare for the quantum era, the challenge is no longer limited to generating quantum secure cryptographic keys. While Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) […]
French National Quantum Update: June 2026
Executive Summary France’s quantum sector moved further into a deployment-focused phase in June 2026, with policy, infrastructure and commercial activity increasingly tied to national security, high-performance computing and post-quantum cybersecurity. The world took notice as France’s cybersecurity agency, ANSSI, said it will stop certifying security products that do not include quantum-resistant encryption beginning in 2027. […]
South Korea Commits 200 Trillion Won to R&D, Quantum Listed as Strategic Tech
Insider Brief South Korea will make quantum technologies one of the country’s core national research priorities under a five-year science and technology plan that commits more than 200 trillion won to government research and development through 2030. The Ministry of Science and ICT said June 26 that the government finalized the Sixth Basic Plan for […]
SEEQC Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SeeQC, Inc. (“SEEQC” or the “Company”), a quantum computing infrastructure company, today announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock. The number of shares to […]
JIJ Appoints Steven Gibson to Lead U.S. Expansion
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — JIJ Inc. today announced that Steven Gibson has joined the company as President of Americas to lead its U.S. expansion. Andrew J. Ochoa has also joined JIJ as Principal Solution Architect to scope, design, and lead delivery of JIJ’s hybrid quantum, AI, and advanced optimization solutions. Gibson, former Chief Commercial […]
NIST Taps SRI to Establish The Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center (QMEC)
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SRI, leading nonprofit R&D institution, today announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has expanded its collaboration with SRI to ensure U.S. leadership in quantum manufacturing. SRI will establish the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center (QMEC) to accelerate the manufacturing of scalable, high-performance quantum components and systems to drive significant growth in the U.S. quantum industry. “NIST is a world […]
WiMi Explores Neural Networks for Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution Optimization
Insider Brief Press release – WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WiMi) (“WiMi” or the “Company”), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality (“AR”) Technology provider, announced that they are researching the use of neural networks for machine learning to optimize parameters in the dual-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) system. This innovative approach aims to leverage the powerful […]
SandboxAQ Brings Large Quantitative Models to Google Cloud Marketplace
Insider Brief Press release – SandboxAQ today announced it will make its Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) accessible through Google Cloud’s Marketplace. Through this marketplace listing, users will be able to tap rigorous, physics-grounded scientific models directly from the conversational AI tools they already use, with no specialized code or infrastructure required. LQMs are AI models […]
Pasqal Appoints Stéphane Rougeot as Chief Financial Officer
Insider Brief Press release – Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the appointment of Stéphane Rougeot as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Rougeot — a finance leader who has served as CFO of multiple publicly-listed European technology companies — will oversee Pasqal’s global finance organization as it scales the commercial deployment of […]