Guest Post: Quantum Investment May Start With Post-Quantum Security
Guest Post By Courtney Olujobi, Principal at Moon Pursuit Capital. From an investment perspective, one of the first significant markets created by quantum computing may have very little to do with buying access to quantum computers themselves. It may come from the amount of capital businesses will need to spend protecting the financial systems, digital […]
DRDO Partners With Zero mK India on 20 mK Quantum Refrigerator
Insider Brief India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has entered its first high-value deep-tech project agreement under the Technology Development Fund scheme, partnering with start-up Zero mK India Private Limited to build an indigenous 20 mK dilution refrigerator for quantum applications, India Blooms reported. The agreement was signed in New Delhi by the Director […]
China’s Qingxing Raises Nearly 100 Million Yuan to Develop Quantum-Inspired AI
Insider Brief Qingxing Heterogeneous Computing completed a Series A+ funding round, bringing its total raised across two rounds in three months to nearly 100 million yuan (about $14.9 million) to develop quantum-inspired AI. Its RiverONE model runs on conventional GPUs and reportedly achieved at least 95% of a larger comparison model’s performance on a specialized […]
CGI Federal, DLA and UT Knoxville Study Quantum Computing for Logistics
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — CGI Federal Inc. (CGI Federal), a leading provider of technology and professional services for the U.S. government, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) to conduct applied research and development to examine how agentic artificial intelligence […]
Chinese Scientists Say Compact Quantum Magnetometer Tracks Hidden Targets in Field Tests
Insider Brief Chinese researchers developed a compact quantum magnetometer that detected underground train activity, located a buried magnet and monitored a geomagnetic storm in field tests. The instrument uses a small sensing probe — about the the size of two dice placed side by side — and automatically restores measurements within a second after strong […]
Mphasis and Copa Airlines Host Quantum Computing Challenge for Airline Optimization
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Mphasis, (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS), a global AI-led, platform-driven technology solutions provider, in partnership with Copa Airlines, recently hosted a Quantum Computing Challenge, an international innovation contest. The challenge brought together teams from various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in India and the University of Calgary and the University of […]
DigiCert Launches Quantum Central for Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — DigiCert, a global leader in intelligent trust, today announced the general availability of DigiCert Quantum Central, part of the DigiCert ONE platform, that helps organizations manage and demonstrate progress toward post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness. First introduced in preview in July, Quantum Central offers expanded capabilities that help organizations move from […]
Evaluating Quantum Generative Models on Real Satellite Radar
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ researchers applied a quantum generative machine learning model to help detect changes in highly complex satellite image data. The results, detailed in a recently published paper, reveal that using quantum-based analysis shows promise for detecting and predicting changes in images where data is too sparse for classical methods to be […]
UTM Becomes Base For Malaysia’s First Quantum Computing Hardware Company
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) is strengthening its role in Malaysia’s emerging quantum technology ecosystem as AQSolotl Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based quantum technology company, establishes its research, development and commercialisation (R&D&C) operations at UTM Technovation Park in Johor Bahru. The development makes AQSolotl the first quantum computing hardware company operating in Malaysia, marking an […]
Mesa Quantum Raises $11.8 Million to Scale Quantum Timing Systems
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Mesa Quantum, the company developing the next generation of quantum sensing technology for integration at scale, today announced it has raised $11.8 million in funding led by Playground Global. The round accelerates the company’s transition from component-level development to the full system integration and scaled production of deployable quantum timing […]