Developers Push Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Cost Below $70
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction now costs about $67 in GPU compute, by the current estimate on the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Optimization Challenge dashboard. A month ago, the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction was mined on Bitcoin mainnet. Building it took roughly 3,100 GPU-hours and cost about $320. StarkWare, Yukon Research and Eigen Labs then […]
Singapore Scientists Claim They Built The World’s Most Accurate Atomic Clock
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Take a second and turn it into trillions of moments. Measure each one. That’s how precisely an atomic clock at Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) keeps time – and with record-making accuracy, according to results published in Nature on 23 September. “I am confident that what we have now is the […]
Chattanooga Schools Begin K–12 Quantum Technology Curriculum
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — As EPB launches its quantum computer, the TN QuantumWorks K–12 quantum technology and career awareness curriculum is now being implemented in Hamilton County classrooms. Announced earlier this year, the curriculum includes programs for four age groups: grades K–2, grades 3–5, middle school, and high school. TN QuantumWorks is designed to […]
CGI And D-Wave Quantum Partner to Advance Enterprise Quantum Adoption
Insider brief PRESS RELEASE — CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, today announced a strategic partnership with D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) (“D-Wave“), the only dual-platform quantum computing company providing both annealing and gate-model systems, software and services. The partnership focuses on helping clients […]
Qunnect Publishes Research on Quantum Security Beyond QKD
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Qunnect, the leading quantum networking company with more quantum networks deployed than any other company, today announced its work with U.S. government agencies and national security partners. That work, together with Qunnect’s commercial deployments and new research, provides a foundation for security applications that will protect critical communications against quantum […]
German Government Selects QUDORA-Led Consortium For €122 Million Project
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QUDORA will lead a seven-member consortium of research institutions and industry partners in a bid to build one of Europe’s most advanced quantum computers. The project, named NFQC-1k, is being selected under the Quantum Computing Competition of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), with a total volume […]
Global Study Finds Quantum Industry Dependent on Cross-Border Supply Chains
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A new international survey of the quantum industry finds that the supply chains supporting quantum technologies are deeply global, with companies of every size relying on suppliers and customers across national borders. The survey included responses from 160 companies headquartered in 15 countries that reported suppliers in 36 countries, customers […]
Q.ANT Launches Open-Source SDK for Photonic Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Q.ANT, the pioneer in commercial photonic computing, today debuted its open-source software development kit for photonic computing, making the programming tools for a photonic processor publicly available for the first time. Programmers now have everything they need to develop applications for Q.ANT‘s Native Processing Units (NPUs), enabling them to compute […]
Photonic Inc. and Microsoft Collaborate on Quantum Resource Estimation
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Photonic Inc. and Microsoft are collaborating on quantum resource estimation for distributed, large-scale quantum computing systems and advanced error-correction approaches. The companies are exploring how architecture, quantum networking requirements and error-correction methods affect physical qubit counts, runtime and system overhead. Photonic plans to work with Microsoft’s Quantum Resource Estimator to […]
Classiq, INGL and IonQ Test Quantum Optimization for Natural Gas Networks
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Classiq and Israel Natural Gas Lines Ltd. (INGL) announced results from research applying quantum optimization to natural gas transmission planning, including execution of a reduced version of the problem on the IonQ Forte-1 quantum computer. The collaboration focused on a familiar challenge for pipeline operators: moving gas from suppliers to […]