Black Kite Adds Quantum Readiness Checks for Third-Party Vendors

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Black Kite, the leader in third-party cyber risk management, today announced the release of Quantum Readiness, a new set of controls within the SSL/TLS Strength category of the Black Kite Cyber Rating that evaluates quantum agility across an organization’s third-party vendor ecosystem. Quantum Readiness surfaces which vendors are quantum-ready or […]

Sparrow Quantum Appoints Founder Peter Lodahl as CEO

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Sparrow Quantum today announced that its founder and former Chief Quantum Officer, Professor Peter Lodahl, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer as part of a planned leadership transition. He succeeds Kurt Stokbro, an early investor who led the company’s development into a growing commercial quantum technology scale-up. Kurt will remain […]

Unpublished Schrödinger Manuscript Reveals His Challenge to Quantum Randomness Claims

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — An unpublished manuscript by Erwin Schrödinger shows how apparently random quantum results could follow definite rules, challenging an argument that such explanations were impossible. The handwritten draft, analyzed in a new historical study posted on arXiv, adds a missing contribution to a wartime dispute over whether quantum mechanics had ended […]

RhymeQ Secures $2.2 Million to Simplify Quantum Software Development

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Insider Brief RhymeQ, a startup making quantum computers accessible to software developers across the world, has raised a $2.2 million pre-seed round led by Ground State Ventures, with participation from Vanagon Ventures, Plug and Play, and Freiraum Ventures. Quantum computers promise to solve significant problems and expand the reach of supercomputing and AI, for instance […]

QCentroid Launches Missions for Enterprise Quantum Computing Evaluation

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QCentroid today announced QCentroid Missions, a new goal-driven capability in its QuantumOps platform designed to take enterprise teams from a measurable business objective to validated evidence for deciding whether, and how, to evolve an existing computational solution. QCentroid Missions is being demonstrated this week at NVIDIA GTC Berlin. Rather than […]

Plurilock Sets Vote on Quantum eMotion Acquisition

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Insider Brief Plurilock Security shareholders will vote Nov. 18 on a proposed acquisition by Quantum eMotion, a deal intended to pair quantum-based security technology with an established cybersecurity business and its customer network. Plurilock said in a news release that it has filed and mailed documents explaining the transaction ahead of a special shareholder meeting […]

GOTT Funds NPL Project to Scale Trapped-Ion Quantum Technology

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has secured funding through the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) to accelerate the development of next-generation trapped-ion quantum computing technologies, helping address one of the sector’s most significant barriers to commercial adoption: scalability.  Quantum computing has the potential to transform industries by solving complex […]

Before the Qubit

How hybrid infrastructure is making quantum commercially actionable today – and why the organizations building that infrastructure now will be the ones ready when the hardware arrives. Insider Brief The Era Between Eras The prevailing assumption about quantum computing is that fault-tolerant hardware will arrive at some point, organizations will integrate it when it does, […]

qBraid Announces qBraid OS For Operating Quantum Computing Services

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — qBraid today introduced qBraid OS, software that quantum hardware providers and system operators can use to run their systems and make them available to users, whether as a commercial service or for internal use. qBraid OS manages access, scheduling and billing for a quantum processor, and runs it together with […]

South Korea Expands Quantum Communications Testbeds Through 2028

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Insider Brief South Korea’s government and private companies plan to widen quantum communications testing at home and abroad through commercial, overseas and future hubs, Seoul Economic Daily reported. The three-year effort runs from this year through 2028, with the aim of commercializing domestically developed quantum communications technology and products. The Ministry of Science and ICT […]