Tiny CMOS Photonic Chip Could Remove a Key Bottleneck in Scaling Quantum Computers

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers have made a major advance in quantum computing with a new device that is nearly 100 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. Published in the journal Nature Communications, the breakthrough optical phase modulators could help unlock much larger quantum computers by enabling efficient control of lasers required […]

Qilimanjaro and Oxigen Data Center Partner on Quantum–Data Center Integration

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech and Oxigen Data Center announce a new strategic collaboration to jointly explore how multimodal quantum computers can be integrated into commercial data centers, laying the foundations for the next generation of hybrid quantum infrastructure. This collaboration will highlight Qilimanjaro’s analog quantum computers, which require significantly less error correction compared to […]

TQI Exclusive: A Deep-Tech Investor’s Case for Patience in The Quantum Race

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Insider Brief Deep-tech investing is entering a new phase, and few figures embody its possibilities and even its contradictions more clearly than Pablos Holman – a hacker-turned-inventor whose career has spanned cypherpunk cryptography, AI-driven trading systems, alternative spaceflight concepts for Jeff Bezos and more than 6,000 patented inventions from his years inside Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual […]

Quantum Computing Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Luminar Semiconductor, Inc.

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum Computing Inc. (“QCi” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: QUBT), an innovative, quantum optics and integrated photonics technology company, today announced that it has signed an agreement (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”) to acquire Luminar Semiconductor, Inc. (“LSI”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Luminar Technologies, Inc. (“Luminar”) (Nasdaq: LAZR), in an all-cash transaction valued […]

Photonic Inc. Selected for Canadian Quantum Champions Program

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Photonic Inc., a global leader in distributed quantum computing, today announced it has been selected for Phase 1 of the Canadian Quantum Champions Program (CQCP), which provides up to $23M in funding to Photonic. The program recognizes the strategic importance of quantum technologies to Canada’s economic competitiveness and national security and is designed […]

Atomic Josephson Junctions: How Bose-Einstein Condensates Replicate Shapiro Steps

Professor Herwig Ott and Dr. Erik Bernhart in a vacuum chamber generating ultracold atomic clouds at 30 nK for a Bose–Einstein condensate Josephson junction experiment.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — They enable high-precision measurements, define the unit of voltage, and form the heart of many quantum computers – the so-called Josephson junctions. However, the microscopic processes taking place in the superconductors are difficult to observe directly. Researchers at the RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau have therefore implemented a quantum simulation of […]

Xanadu Selected for Canada’s Quantum Champions Program

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. (“Xanadu”), a leading photonic quantum computing company, today announced that it has been selected to participate in the Canadian Quantum Champions Program (CQCP), a new, first-of-its-kind federal initiative designed to accelerate the development of fault-tolerant quantum computing capabilities in Canada and anchor the country’s quantum leadership for […]

Kyndryl Launches Quantum Safe Assessment for Enterprise Cryptography

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today unveiled Kyndryl’s Quantum Safe Assessment service to help enterprises prepare for the emerging opportunities and security threats posed by quantum computing. The new service identifies and analyzes cryptographic risk exposure across an organization’s entire IT estate, creating a customized transformation […]

Quantum eMotion Joins Kirq Quantum Communication Testbed in Quebec

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum eMotion Corp. (“QeM”) (TSXV: QNC, OTCQB: QNCCF, FSE: 34Q0), a Canadian provider of quantum-safe cybersecurity technologies, announces its integration into Kirq, a quantum communication testbed developed by Numana. The collaboration supports QeM’s ongoing research, testing, and validation of quantum-safe cybersecurity technologies within a collaborative testing environment. The Kirq testbed provides an […]