CSCU Renames Nanotech Center to Focus on Quantum Technologies

Physics majors Maggie Blanchard and Andre Correa working at the high-performance computing cluster in the CSCU Center for Quantum and Nanotechnology (QNT).

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Connecticut State Colleges & Universities (CSCU) Center for Nanotechnology (CNT) has a new name and an expanded mission. Following approval by the CSCU Board of Regents, the center will now be known as the CSCU Center for Quantum and Nanotechnology (QNT). This change reflects the state’s increasing investment in quantum technologies […]

Italy’s National Quantum Polo Aims to Boost Technological Sovereignty

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Insider Brief As the International Year of Quantum draws to a close, Italy is positioning itself as a key player in the global quantum race. According to decode39’s reporting, Italian policymakers are working to consolidate the country’s quantum ecosystem through a proposed National Quantum Polo. This initiative, modeled after the U.S. DARPA, aims to unify […]

Guest Post — Building a Quantum Ready Nation

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Insider Brief Guest post by Gabriela Styf SjomanMD of Research & Network Strategy at BT A Global Quantum Acceleration – and a UK Opportunity As the International Year of Quantum draws to a close, the world stands at the threshold of quantum’s next exciting chapter. After decades of research and experimentation, quantum is shifting from […]

TQI’s Top Quantum Research Stories of 2025

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As 2025 draws to a close, it’s once again time at The Quantum Insider to step back from the daily churn of preprints, press releases and policy announcements and take stock of the research stories that captured the community’s attention. The following top ten research stories of 2025 are drawn from The Quantum Insider to […]

Quantum Technology Signals New Frontier for the Gaming Industry

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —  MOTH, the quantum technology company delivering a new era in media and entertainment, today highlighted that the gaming industry is held back  by the limits of classical computing.  Speaking at the Q2B Conference in Silicon Valley, CTO Spencer Topel said today’s biggest game developers are now hitting hard technical limits that classical […]

QubitSolve Wins $1.2M NSF SBIR Grant to Unlock More Affordable Product Development with Quantum CFD

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QubitSolve Inc. today announced it has been awarded a $1,197,002 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to accelerate the development of its pioneering computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for quantum computers. This milestone positions QubitSolve as a leader in bringing one of the first industrial applications […]

Riverlane Publishes Hardware Decoder for Real-Time Quantum Error Correction

Riverlane Local Clustering Decoder (LCD) chip used for hardware-based quantum error correction.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Riverlane today announced the peer-reviewed publication of its Local Clustering Decoder (LCD) paper in Nature Communications, showcasing a hardware decoder that delivers real-time, scalable quantum error correction for the surface code — the error-correction architecture used in many of today’s leading quantum computers. This is the first time a decoder has delivered real-time […]

Keysight Joins Forces with Singapore’s Quantum Leaders to Advance Capabilities in the Design and Control of Qubits

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) announced the signing of a five-year Master Research Collaboration Agreement (MRCA) with Singapore’s leading quantum research institutions: Agency for Science, Technology and Research  (A*STAR), the National University of Singapore (NUS) through the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), to […]

Belden partners with QSECDEF to advance quantum-secure connectivity for the AI era

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Belden Inc., a global provider of complete connection solutions, has strengthened its commitment to advancing secure connectivity in the quantum-AI era by partnering with Quantum Security & Defence (QSECDEF), the global orchestrator of the quantum-secure supply chain. From manufacturing to healthcare, the challenges organizations are facing have become so complex, […]

Inside SQC’s Research on a Key Quantum Scaling Problem

Insider Brief A quantum processor built from precisely placed atoms in silicon has crossed a key threshold, linking multiple groups of qubits together while preserving the performance needed for error correction, according to a new study published in Nature. Researchers at Silicon Quantum Computing and UNSW Sydney report that they have demonstrated an 11-qubit processor […]