UbiQD Wins New Mexico Grant for Quantum Light Source Development

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — UbiQD, Inc., a global leader in quantum dot technology and manufacturing, has received a $200,000 grant through New Mexico’s Quantum Technologies Award from the Economic Development New Mexico (EDNM) Department through its Technology and Innovation Office (TIO). The grant funds development of a key component for quantum computers and ultra-secure quantum […]
DataBrushing.AI Launches UEChain for Data Verification and Trust

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — AI DataBrushing Technology Co., Ltd. (DataBrushing.AI) launched S.A.F.E.-AI Trusted Platform – UEChain on October 16, a solution built on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), a Certificate Authority (CA), and digital evidence chain technologies. UEChain is designed to help enterprises and research institutions answer three critical questions: Who provided the data? Has […]
D-Wave and LG CNS Partner on Quantum Optimization in South Korea

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), the only dual-platform quantum computing company providing both annealing and gate-model systems, software and services, and LG CNS Co., Ltd. (“LG CNS”), a leading AI transformation company in South Korea, today announced that the companies have signed a non-binding memorandum of […]
Qarakal Quantum And Quantum Elements Receive BIRD Foundation Grant For Quantum Computing Innovation With a $2.4 Million Budget

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum Elements and Qarakal Quantum today announced they have been selected by the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation to jointly develop a quantum simulation platform for understanding and designing the chemical reactions that occur on material surfaces. The project, one of seven approved by the BIRD Foundation, […]
Guest Post: Why Dedicated Compute Matters for AI and Quantum Computing

Guest Post By Christopher Miglino, CEO, Axe Compute Every dollar going into AI infrastructure today is also a bet on what comes after it. Compute has become a strategic resource. Companies are spending billions to secure the processing power to build, train and run AI, and we’re still early: much of the global economy hasn’t […]
IonQ Receives $7.5 Million from AFRL for Quantum Networking

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, today announced it has received $7.5 million in follow-on funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The Phase 2 contract expands upon the first-generation quantum network IonQ previously delivered in Rome, New York. The collaboration explores key optical, […]
Zumo and Quantum Chain Partner on Quantum-Resilient Finance

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Crypto-as-a-service platform Zumo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Quantum Chain, a quantum-resilient blockchain and infrastructure platform, with the companies uniting to help safeguard the UK’s developing digital assets sector against the spectre of future quantum threats. There are growing fears regarding the imminence of Cryptographically Relevant Quantum […]
Frank Zhao and Zhengguang Lu Win 2026 LOR Science Prize

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum Design Oxford today announces that Dr Frank Zhao, Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, and Dr Zhengguang Lu, Assistant Professor of Physics at Florida State University and an affiliate of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, have been selected as joint winners of the 2026 Lee […]
Pasqal Launches AI Workflow for Cloud Quantum Experiments

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Pasqal (Nasdaq: PSQL), a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the availability of an AI-assisted workflow on Pasqal Cloud. Available as a plugin for leading agentic coding environments, the new feature can take a well-defined scientific idea to a running experiment on a quantum processing unit (QPU), significantly […]
What NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Plan Means For Companies And Their Suppliers

Insider Brief Companies buying software, renewing cloud contracts or designing connected devices may be making decisions that determine whether their systems can withstand a future quantum attack. That is one of the practical implications of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new report on the transition to post-quantum cryptography, or PQC. The agency’s road […]