China Puts Quantum Technology Among Priorities in New 2030 Cyber Industry Plan
Insider Brief China has identified quantum technology as one of a group of frontier fields targeted for development under a new five-year plan aimed at strengthening the country’s cybersecurity and information technology companies. According to The China Daily, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission released the action plan Friday, laying out priorities for China’s cyberspace industry […]
Microsoft’s Skala AI Model Joins CP2K to Improve Quantum Mechanical Simulations
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Skala AI model, developed by Microsoft Research AI for Science, is now available through the CP2K software ecosystem. Thanks to Skala, researchers can perform quantum mechanical simulations of larger molecular systems while achieving a higher level of accuracy. In early 2026, Microsoft’s research division and the CP2K team at […]
Japan’s Full-Stack Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer is Operational
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, announced on Aug. 24 that Japan’s first full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer “Shunkai,” developed by a research team led by Professor Kenji Ohmori, is now operational. Quantum computers are being developed in various modalities worldwide. However, there remain challenges to address […]
Brookhaven And Stony Brook Researchers Demonstrate ‘Wireless’ Capability for Quantum Network
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) have successfully transmitted light particles containing quantum information through open air between the two institutions. This is the first demonstration of its kind in the United […]
Lionel Martellini (EDHEC Quantum Institute): Why business leaders need quantum awareness, not quantum washing
Yuval Boger interviews Lionel Martellini, finance professor at the EDHEC and founding director of the EDHEC Quantum Institute. Lionel describes his unusual path from finance to astrophysics and why business schools should teach quantum awareness to future leaders. They discuss core quantum concepts, the danger of overhyping “quantum washing,” and the real prospects for quantum […]
What Is NISQ Quantum Computing: The Current Era of Quantum Machines
Insider Brief Every quantum computer commercially available today belongs to the same category. Whether it is IBM‘s quantum systems, Google‘s superconducting processors, or IonQ‘s trapped-ion hardware. All of these are NISQ devices, whether the press releases say so or not. NISQ stands for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum. Physicist John Preskill coined the term in 2018 to […]
Quantum X Labs Tests AI Quantum Error Decoder on Google Hardware Dataset
Insider Brief Press release – Quantum X Labs Inc. (Nasdaq: QXL) (“Quantum X” or the “Company”), an advanced technologies company, today announced new results from its AI-driven quantum error-correction program, advancing the Company’s roadmap toward trusted quantum error correction for future fault-tolerant quantum computing. Quantum computers are highly sensitive to noise, and quantum error correction […]
Berkeley Lab-Led Project Secures Funding to Develop a Transportable Muon Imager
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in partnership with Ideon Technologies, has received funding from the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) through the Reliable Ore Characterization with Keystone Sensing (ROCKS) initiative. The three-year project aims to secure domestic supplies of critical minerals—materials essential to energy, industry, and national security—by imaging deep […]
ORNL Researcher Advances Particle Detection for the Electron-Ion Collider
Insider Brief Press release – John Lajoie is a builder—not of buildings or everyday machines, but of detectors with a special purpose. A physicist at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Lajoie has shaped his career around finding hard-to-solve problems and coming up with new ways to tackle them. Detectors are […]
Q2B Copenhagen 2026 to Focus on Quantum Technology and Commercial Adoption
Insider Brief Press release – QC Ware, the organizer of Q2B conferences and a developer of computational chemistry and quantum computing software, has announced that the 2026 Q2B Copenhagen Conference will take place on September 9-10, 2026, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference is presented in joint partnership with a Danish Consortium comprising the Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]