Qubic Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round for Quantum Computing Hardware
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Qubic, a quantum technology company developing low-noise cryogenic amplifiers solving one of the major bottlenecks for scaling for quantum computing and with promising applications in sensing and defence, today announces it has closed an oversubscribed round of venture capital financing in the amount of $2.5 million USD ($3.5 million CAD). The investment was led by Two Small Fish Ventures, with participation from UC Investments, Quantacet and UCeed. The financing will be deployed […]
IQM Says New Quantum Codes Cut Logical Error Rates by Up to 1,000 Times
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IQM Quantum Computers, the global leader in superconducting quantum computers, today announced a significant achievement in quantum error correction, using directional tile codes, marking a major step toward practical, large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing. The research, available on arXiv, and co-authored by IQM researchers and collaborators at Freie Universität Berlin, the University […]
Quantum Computing Inc. Completes NHanced Semiconductors Acquisition
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum Computing Inc. (“QCi” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: QUBT), an innovative, quantum optics and integrated photonics technology company, today announced the completion of acquiring NHanced Semiconductors, Inc. (“NHanced”), for a combination of cash and QCi stock valued at $73.1 million, subject to customary adjustments, and up to an additional $72.0 million if certain […]
Q.ANT Runs Generative AI on Photonic Hardware
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Q.ANT, the pioneer in commercial photonic computing, today demonstrated the first complex, production-relevant AI workloads on its photonic hardware. Q.ANT successfully demonstrated a diffusion model and a recurrent neural network on its second-generation Native Processing Unit (NPU) at ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg. This proves that Q.ANT’s photonic architecture supports the full breadth of modern […]
Symmatrics Launches Quantum-Secure VPN for Enterprise Networks
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Symmatrics, a quantum secure data protection platform, today announced its next-generation VPN providing secure remote access, hardened against today’s credential-based cyberattacks and emerging quantum threats. As organizations increasingly rely on distributed workforces and private cloud environments, traditional VPNs have become the most common entry points for attackers, often compromised through […]
RIKEN Launches ROQUO Supercomputer for Quantum-HPC Hybrid Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Quantum-HPC Hybrid Platform Division (Director: Mitsuhisa Sato) of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (hereafter “R-CCS”) has installed a new JHPC-quantum GPU supercomputer, “ROQUO”, at R-CCS in Kobe and has begun its operation, to accelerate the integration of quantum computing and high-performance computing (HPC). “ROQUO” is a new computing […]
BTQ Technologies Appoints Brandt Pasco as Post-Quantum Cryptography Advisor
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — BTQ Technologies Corp. (“BTQ” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global technology company building the trust infrastructure for the quantum era, is pleased to announce the appointment of Brandt Pasco as U.S. Strategic Advisor for Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security. Mr. Pasco will advance BTQ’s engagement with U.S. government stakeholders, public-sector agencies, […]
Aegiq Uses NVIDIA cuQuantum to Develop Quantum-Ready CFD Methods
Computational fluid dynamics has become one of the essential tools of modern engineering and science. It shapes the design of aircraft and jet engines, informs the aerodynamics of cars and ships, and underpins the numerical models used to forecast weather and understand climate. In each of these domains, the ambition is the same: to predict […]
Quandela Validates Low-Latency Photonic QPU Integration with NVIDIA NVQLink
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quandela today announced that it has experimentally validated a low-latency integration path between photonic quantum processors and NVIDIA AI infrastructure, marking an important milestone toward bringing quantum processing units directly into high-performance computing environments. Results presented at ISC 2026 demonstrate a path toward accelerator-style integration of photonic quantum processors in […]
Aegiq Uses NVIDIA Ising AI for Photonic Quantum Computer Calibration
Insider Brief Quantum computers are inherently unstable systems, requiring frequent calibration to maintain optimal performance. Traditionally, this process relies on manual intervention, as traditional algorithmic approaches struggle to interpret complex data and balance competing figures of merit in this nascent technology. As systems scale-up, these manual processes can limit uptime, incur substantial engineering time and […]