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Deep Tech Playbook: How Market Shaping Beats Stealth Mode for Startup Success

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Guest Post By Mark M.J. Scott President of Northern Pixels Inc. The deep tech landscape is littered with once-promising startups that chose secrecy over strategy — only to emerge from stealth mode and discover their market moment had passed. While conventional wisdom suggests that revolutionary technology requires revolutionary secrecy, the reality for deep tech founders is […]

Quantum Industry Sees Big Bets And Bigger Deals in Early 2025

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Insider Brief A surge of high-value investments, growing sales and climbing stock prices have marked a strong start to 2025 for the quantum technology industry, possibly suggesting that the industry — and the market — are entering a new phase of commercial maturity. According to new data from The Quantum Insider’s intelligence platform, quantum funding […]

How Can Quantum Machine Learning Serve as a Tool to Strengthen Quantum Key Distribution?

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Insider Brief Quantum machine learning (QML) can reinforce one of the most mature applications of quantum cryptography — quantum key distribution (QKD) — potentially reshaping the future of secure communication networks, according to a recent study published in Frontiers in Quantum Science and Technology. The paper, authored by Krupa Purohit and Ajay Kumar of Adani […]

Scientists Observe ‘String Breaking’ in Two-Dimensional Quantum Simulator

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Insider Brief An international team of researchers from the University of Innsbruck, Harvard University, QuEra Computing, and collaborating institutions has reported the first direct observation of string breaking in a programmable two-dimensional quantum simulator. Their study, “Observation of String Breaking on a (2 + 1)D Rydberg Quantum Simulator,” has appeared in Nature this week. Read the full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09051-6 […]

TCA Appoints Michelle Simmons to Board of Directors

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE – The Tech Council of Australia (TCA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Michelle Simmons AO to its Board of Directors.   A former Australian of the Year, Professor Simmons is a globally recognised quantum physicist and deep-tech entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of the world-leading Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), which […]

Quantum Brilliance’s Room Temp Quantum Accelerator Goes Live at Fraunhofer IAF

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE – To further accelerate its pioneering research in the field of quantum computing, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF is expanding its unique quantum computing infrastructure with the latest system from Quantum Brilliance (QB). Following a public tender, the Quantum Development Kit (QB-QDK2.0) is operational and integrated directly […]

UChicago Receives $21 Million to Establish Quantum Engineering And Health Center

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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A $21 million gift from philanthropist Thea Berggren to the University of Chicago will establish the Berggren Center for Quantum Biology and Medicine, launching a bold scientific field that merges quantum technology with biology to transform the future of medicine. This pioneering, interdisciplinary effort seeks to harness the power of […]

Qblox Opens North American Headquarters in Boston

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Qblox, a global leader in quantum control stack technology, announced a major milestone in its growth: the official opening of its North America headquarters at 99 High Street in Downtown Boston. Government officials, industry leaders, and academic partners joined Qblox to mark this occasion and explore new opportunities to catalyze […]