TQI’s Top Quantum Research Stories of 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Enlightra Raises $15M to Advance Laser Interconnects for AI and Quantum Systems
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Enlightra, a Swiss-American deeptech startup building chip-scale multiwavelength lasers for next-generation data transmission, today announced it has raised a total of $15 million in funding to tackle the biggest bottleneck in AI infrastructure: fast and energy efficient data transfer. As AI clusters and data centers expand, Enlightra’s laser technology replaces […]
Universal Quantum and Atlas Copco Sign MoU on Quantum Vacuum Systems
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Universal Quantum Ltd, the company building utility scale quantum computers based on a modular and manufacturable silicon based trapped ion architecture, has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding with Atlas Copco Group, a global leader in vacuum and cryogenic technologies. This agreement aligns Universal Quantum’s long-term roadmap with Atlas Copco’s […]
2025’s 10 Most Popular Quantum-Tech Stories on TQI
As 2025 comes to an end, it’s traditional here at The Quantum Insider to take a look back at the stories that moved the community. Certainly, one way to create these lists is to rely on your editorial judgment to determine which stories had the most impact, but interest and bias can skew the list. […]