White House: Quantinuum Lands Up to $1 Billion Quantum Deal in Historic U.S.-Qatar Investment Pact
Insider Brief Quantinuum has secured what may be the largest single deal in the quantum computing sector to date — finalizing an up to a $1 billion joint venture agreement with Qatar’s Al Rabban Capital to expand quantum technologies and workforce development in the United States, according to a White House statement and fact sheet. […]
Keyfactor Acquires InfoSec Global and CipherInsights for Quantum-Safe Security Expansion
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE – Keyfactor, the industry leader in digital trust for modern enterprises, announced it has acquired InfoSec Global, a leader in cryptographic posture management, and CipherInsights, an advanced cryptographic discovery solution by Quantum Xchange. These strategic acquisitions position Keyfactor as the leader in digital trust and quantum readiness, bringing together the most comprehensive solutions […]
Quantum Computing’s Asymmetric Risk Means One Break Is All It Takes
Insider Brief Quantum computing could one day upend global cybersecurity systems, but without intense Moore’s law-like commercial pressures to build such a machine today, timelines for the arrival of fault-tolerant quantum computing are hard to pin down, according to experts interviewed on a recent episode of a16z’s web3 with a16z podcast. However, the stark contrast […]
EU and Japan Formalize Quantum Collaboration with Letter of Intent and Joint Research Initiative
Insider Brief: On 13 May 2025, the European Commission and the Government of Japan signed a Letter of Intent to strengthen bilateral cooperation in quantum science and technology, according to a release from the European Commission. The document was signed in Tokyo by Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security […]
SilQ Connect Raises Pre-Seed Round to Build Quantum Infrastructure
Insider Brief SilQ Connect has secured pre-seed funding from three of the most active backers in quantum technology, signaling growing investor confidence in the hardware behind tomorrow’s distributed quantum computing systems. According to the company’s announcement on LinkedIn, the round includes support from Quantonation, Quantacet, and QV Studio — firms that have been backing SilQ […]
Two Projects Powered by QuEra Computing Contributions Move to Phase Three of Wellcome Leap’s Quantum for Bio Challenge
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuEra Computing, the leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced that two research projects in which QuEra is collaborating have advanced to the third and final phase of Wellcome Leap’s Quantum for Bio Challenge. With two of the six final projects in the world-renowned program coming from QuEra-powered research, QuEra […]
Rigetti Reports $42.6 Million Q1 Profit Amid Operating Losses, Strategic Wins
Insider Brief Rigetti Computing reported a net profit of $42.6 million in the first quarter of 2025, driven mainly by non-cash gains tied to financial instruments, but revealed a $21.6 million operating loss as the company ramps up development of utility-scale quantum systems. According to the company’s earnings statement released this week, Rigetti generated $1.5 […]
Pasqal’s Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE – Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, has announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to make Pasqal’s neutral-atom quantum processing unit (QPU) available through Google Cloud Marketplace. With this, any organization leveraging Google Cloud will have the opportunity to access the all-in-one Pasqal Cloud platform – available as a […]
Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park and DARPA QBI Performer Diraq Sign Letter of Intent to Join Park as a Future Tenant
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) announced it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Diraq to join the Park as a future tenant. The LOI outlines plans to initially locate at the IQMP’s On-Ramp, a program designed to allow companies who will ultimately be tenants at the […]
Oracle and Entanglement’s seQure Launch Quantum-Inspired Threat Detection Platform on Oracle Cloud
Insider Brief: PRESS RELEASE — Oracle and seQure, an Entanglement company and Oracle partner, today announced that governments and enterprises can deploy Ground-Truth on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Ground-Truth is a cybersecurity and data observability service that helps automate the detection of threats and vulnerabilities and can reduce event alerts by 90 percent. Previously only […]