Fermilab and Microsoft Partner on Quantum Hardware Tools

The Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit — or QICK — an open-source quantum control and readout system developed at Fermilab. Photo: Ryan Postel, Fermila

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is joining Microsoft Quantum as an initial partner in the company’s new quantum hardware makerspace in its newest quantum research center in the University of Maryland’s Discovery District. Here, researchers within the academia, industry, and government sectors will provide access to […]

Tiny Quantum Nanostructures Could Make AI Less of an Energy Hog

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a new type of quantum nanostructure that could enable optical neural networks. This emerging technology has the potential to make artificial intelligence systems, like large language models and image generation, faster and significantly more energy efficient. The research, led by electrical and […]

QuEra Computing Opens Office in Discovery District Maryland

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuEra Computing, the Boston-based leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, will open an office in Discovery District Maryland, joining the Capital of Quantum’s expanding roster of quantum companies. The move builds on an agreement between QuEra and the University of Maryland‘s National Quantum Laboratory (QLab) that gives QLab researchers cloud access […]

IonQ Demonstrates End-to-End Real-Time Quantum Error Decoder

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, today announced a major milestone in fault-tolerant quantum computing. Researchers demonstrated the development and successful testing of the industry’s first end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder that runs on a single standard off-the-shelf central processing unit (CPU). Quantum error […]

Microsoft Gives DARPA Access to Majorana System, Opens Maryland Quantum Research Center

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Insider Brief Microsoft has opened a quantum research center in Maryland that will house one of its topological quantum systems for independent testing by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, widening the government’s role in evaluating the company’s path toward large-scale quantum computers. The 15,000-square-foot center, located in the University of Maryland’s Discovery District, combines […]

Zapata Launches Platform to Help Companies Assess Quantum Use Cases

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Zapata Quantum, Inc. (OTCQB: ZPTA) (“Zapata,” “Zapata Quantum” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing algorithm and application development, today announced early access to Quantum Pilot, a hardware-agnostic, cloud-based software platform designed to close a growing gap between rapidly advancing quantum hardware capabilities and enterprises’ ability to determine where […]

Quobly Brings Alloy Forge to qBraid for Silicon Quantum Development

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quobly, a French company developing silicon-based quantum computers, and qBraid, a quantum computing cloud service providing access to more than 24 quantum computers, today announced that Alloy Forge is now available on the qBraid platform, further expanding access to Quobly’s silicon quantum development environment as the company prepares the commercial launch […]

Quantum XChange and Carahsoft Partner on Post-Quantum Cryptography for Government

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum XChange®, a leader in quantum-safe network security, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Quantum XChange’s Master Government Aggregator®, making the company’s innovative Phio TX® cryptographic management platform available to the Public Sector through Carahsoft’s […]

Babcock and Arqit Demonstrate Quantum-Safe Encryption for Defence Communications

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, has demonstrated its systems integration expertise by securely transferring scenario data using advanced encryption technology from Arqit Quantum Inc, a global leader in quantum-safe encryption, helping safeguard sensitive information from future cyber threats. Data was collected at one site in Millbrook at DVD […]

QuEra and HPE Partner on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing for HPC

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuEra Computing, the leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced a collaboration with HPE to integrate neutral-atom, fault-tolerant quantum computing with on-premise high-performance computing (HPC) environments powered by the HPE Cray supercomputing platform. The collaboration gives HPC centers, national laboratories, and enterprises a path to bring QuEra’s frontier systems into […]