Korean Quantum Fintech Firm Orientom Expands Into Southeast Asia
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Orientom (CEO AlfredBang), a company developing domestic quantum financial technology, has begun expanding into Southeast Asia. Orientom announced on the 5th that it attended the ‘Thailand Quantum Summit 2025’, an international conference for the global development of quantum technology and ecosystem construction, and revealed its own financial quantum technology under […]
TAU Systems and Berkeley Lab Demonstrate Advance in Compact X-Ray Laser Technology
Insider Brief A public-private collaboration reports taking a major step toward shrinking billion-dollar particle accelerators to the size of a lab bench. Backed by the Department of Energy and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and TAU Systems Inc. report having successfully demonstrated intense, coherent light pulses from a […]
VDURA and NMSU Partner to Develop Post-Quantum Cryptography for AI & HPC Data Infrastructure
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum computing promises transformative breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, but it also threatens today’s encryption. To stay ahead of that curve,VDURA has announced a strategic partnership with New Mexico State University (NMSU) to co-develop and commercialize post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) technology that safeguards the petabyte-scale data pipelines powering next-generation […]
Global Tech Leaders Publish Review on Tensor Networks in Quantum Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Over 30 researchers from JPMorganChase, NVIDIA, Terra Quantum, Google, NASA, Quantinuum, and leading universities, have co-authored a landmark review on tensor networks, a foundational mathematical framework in quantum computing. The paper “Tensor networks for quantum computing”, published in Nature Reviews Physics, presents a strategic roadmap for unlocking practical quantum capabilities […]
Africa Quantum Consortium Officially Launches with a Vision to Unify and Accelerate Africa’s Quantum Ecosystem
Insider Brief: Today marks the official launch of the Africa Quantum Consortium (AQC): a bold, pan-African initiative designed to unify, equip, and elevate Africa’s quantum ecosystem. The Africa Quantum Consortium is building what’s been missing: a shared foundation for quantum science and technology across the continent. Until now, efforts have been scattered—strong pockets of research, […]
UAE’s QuantLase Launches Photonic AI Chip Design Into Industrial Fabrication
Insider Brief The United Arab Emirates has entered the global chip race with its first industrial-grade photonic computing chip, designed to perform the matrix math at the heart of artificial intelligence. Developed by QuantLase Research and Development Center (QRDC), the chip is now in fabrication at a European foundry and is expected to be delivered […]
Bank of America Strategist Calls Quantum ‘The Most Important Technological Race of Our Generation’
Insider Brief Quantum computing may be the most consequential technology of this century, capable of rendering current encryption obsolete, redefining AI, and redrawing the global balance of power, according to a new analysis by Bank of America. In a wide-ranging interview with Israeli tech publication CTech, Haim Israel, Managing Director and Global Strategist at Bank […]
A High-Stakes Retreat in Montana: Defining U.S. Quantum Leadership
Insider Brief Montana, long known for its natural beauty, is rapidly emerging as a strategic center for the United States’ quantum future. With Montana State University’s QCORE facility leading groundbreaking research—backed by a $26.7 million U.S. Air Force grant—and a thriving network of photonics and cryogenics companies, the state has built an ecosystem that blends […]
IBM Reports Decoder Could Push Quantum Computing Toward Fault Tolerance
Insider Brief IBM researchers have developed a new decoder algorithm that outperforms all known alternatives in identifying and correcting errors in quantum memory, which the team suggests marks another step toward scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing. The algorithm, known as Relay-BP and discussed in this paper on the pre-print server arXiv, significantly improves how quantum systems […]
QuamCore Secures $26 Million Series A to Build 1-Million-Qubit Quantum Computer in a Single Cryostat
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuamCore, a deep-tech startup tackling quantum computing’s hardest scalability challenges, announced a $26 million Series A, bringing total funding to $35 million. The round was led by Sentinel Global, with participation from Arkin Capital, as well as existing investors Viola Ventures, Earth & Beyond Ventures, Surround Ventures, Rhodium, and Quantum Leap. The Israel […]