MIMOS and SDT Collaborate to Establish Malaysia’s First Quantum Computing R&D Center
Insider Brief: PRESS RELEASE — With its abundant data resources, the Malaysian government has set a goal to become ASEAN’s leading “Quantum Hub” by 2035. As part of this effort, it has chosen a South Korean quantum computing company as a key partner. On the 25th, Malaysia’s national research institution, MIMOS, which operates under the […]
Nu Quantum Partners With Leaders to Launch Quantum Datacenter Alliance
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Nu Quantum has launched Quantum Datacenter Alliance (QDA) to bring together leading companies representing different layers of the quantum computing stack and create a forum on data centre-scale quantum computers. By collecting complimentary perspectives from across the ecosystem, the QDA presents an open community to discuss the opportunities and challenges […]
QT Sense Raises €6 Million to Use Quantum Sensing to Understand Diseases
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QT Sense, the startup using cutting-edge quantum sensing to improve our knowledge of diseases, has raised €6 million to further refine its Quantum Nuova product. The funding combines equity investment from quantum-focused VC fund QDNL Participations, plus a group of angels, with grant funding from Interreg Europe. The Dutch startup […]
QuantWare Introduces Contralto-A, a QPU For Quantum Error Correction
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuantWare, a global leader in quantum hardware scaling technologies, today revealed Contralto-A: a new Quantum Processor Unit (QPU) with complementary offering designed to meet the requirements of its customers wanting to scale their quantum error-correction capabilities. Contralto-A features up to 17 transmon qubits with tunable couplers, making it almost twice […]
Google Expands Post-Quantum Cryptography Support with Quantum-Safe Digital Signatures
Insider Brief: PRESS RELEASE — As progress to secure digital infrastructure accelerates, Google announced a major update to its post-quantum cryptography strategy in a recent post. As a new addition to Google Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), Google introduced quantum-safe digital signatures and outlined broader efforts to integrate PQC across its encryption products. This […]
Russia’s Rosatom Expands Global Quantum Ties with Vietnam and Egypt
Insider Brief: Quantum technology is no longer confined to the laboratories of a select few nations. It is increasingly seen across borders as a necessary asset in global industrial strategies, energy infrastructure, and geopolitical negotiations. In Russia, Rosatom—the state corporation traditionally synonymous with nuclear power—is working towards positioning itself within the quantum sector through new […]
168 National Science Foundation Employees Fired, Raising Concerns For Quantum Funding
Insider Brief The National Science Foundation fired 168 employees Tuesday as part of a government-wide effort to reduce the federal workforce, according to multiple sources. The move has raised concerns about its impact on scientific research, particularly in quantum computing and artificial intelligence, fields where the agency has heavily invested. The layoffs were in response […]
Quantum Advantage Claim — Quantum Entanglement Gives Players a Significant Edge in Strategic Game
Insider Brief Scientists claim they demonstrated a quantum advantage in a strategic game, showing that two players using entangled particles can outperform the best classical strategy by a statistically significant margin. The findings, published in Physical Review Letters, offer new evidence that quantum mechanics enables superior performance in certain tasks, even when players are separated […]
Guest Post: Latin America is Delivering Quantum Technology: It’s Time to Recognize It!
Guest Post by Paulina Assmann, CEO of SeQure Quantum and Member of the Advisory Commission on Quantum Technologies in Chile. I will never forget when I was told, “You must speak perfect English for people to believe you”. Worse, when they assumed that any technological advancement coming from Latin America was simply copied from elsewhere. […]
The Conversation: Microsoft Just Claimed a Quantum Breakthrough. A Quantum Physicist Explains What it Means
By Stephan Rachel, Professor, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne For The Conversation Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that stores information in an exotic state of matter, in what may be a significant breakthrough for quantum computing. At the same time, the researchers also published a paper […]