Haiqu Launches Agentic Quantum Operating System For Enterprise Applications R&D
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Haiqu, a leading developer of quantum middleware, today announced the launch of its Agentic Quantum Operating System (OS), the first full-stack quantum intelligence platform for enterprise and scientific quantum R&D. Currently, quantum development is impeded by the time and costs it takes to design the right application, execute the experiment, […]
QuTwo Raises €25 Million to Build Hybrid Quantum-Classical Platform
Insider Brief European AI startup QuTwo raised a €25 million angel financing round, increasing its valuation of roughly $380 million, TechCrunch is reporting. The round offers further evidence of continued investor appetite for both artificial intelligence and quantum-enhanced computing. It’s also a boost for European technology firms. The Finland-based company was founded by Peter Sarlin, […]
UC Names Katherine Yelick for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The University of California Board of Regents on May 5 approved Katherine Yelick as the next director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Her appointment as director begins on July 1. Yelick is a leading computer scientist with a highly distinguished research and leadership career at UC Berkeley and […]
ORCA Computing and SiC Systems Partner on Industrial AI and Quantum Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — ORCA Computing, a leading quantum computing company, and SiC Systems, a leader in physics-informed multi-agent AI for industrial process systems, today announced a strategic partnership to apply hybrid quantum–classical computing to industrial agentic AI for chemical and biomanufacturing process design, control and maintenance. This collaboration represents the first-time quantum computing is being integrated […]
South Korea Expands Post-Quantum Security Program Across Critical Sectors
Insider Brief South Korea is expanding its post-quantum cryptography implementation across critical infrastructure sectors. The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) announced it will broaden its pilot conversion project for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to include telecommunications, finance, transportation, defense, and space sectors. Last year’s pilot targeted key infrastructure in energy, medical, and administrative sectors, according […]
Quantum Algorithms May Add Shine to Surface Coatings
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — What do cars, bridges and airplanes have in common? They are all exposed to the open air most of the time and are subjected to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Airplanes are particularly vulnerable to this radiation, as UV radiation is very intense at high altitudes. UV radiation attacks surface […]
Q-CTRL Delivers 3,000x Speedup in Materials Discovery for the Energy Sector with Quantum Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Q-CTRL, the global leader in quantum infrastructure software, today announced it has achieved a 3,000 times speedup on a problem of commercial relevance using the IBM Quantum Platform. Q-CTRL has achieved evidence of practical quantum advantage over performance-optimized industry-standard classical software on a known, practically useful problem in materials science, marking the first achievement […]
AQT Reports Quantum Volume of 32768 on LYNX System
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Quantum Volume (QV) test is an internationally applied benchmark originally proposed by IBM. The benchmark rigorously assesses and describes the computational power of a quantum computer with a single number. The QV metric describes how many “good” qubits a quantum information processor contains. In the procedure, random quantum circuits (according to […]
KIST Accelerates U.S. Expansion of Quantum Deep-Tech Startups Through SelectUSA 2026
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) President Oh Sang-rok announced that it will participate in the SelectUSA Investment Summit 2026 as part of a Korean delegation, together with quantum technology startups supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups under the Deeptech Project (DIPS). The initiative, supported by South Korea’s Ministry […]
QuantWare Raises $178 Million to Build Quantum Processors at an Industrial Scale
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuantWare, the leading industrial quantum processor company, today announced a $178 million (€152 million) Series B round following the announcement of VIO-40K™, a quantum processor architecture for 10,000 qubits, 100x larger than the state of the art today. The company is building KiloFab, the world’s largest dedicated quantum open architecture […]