New York Opens $60 Million RFP for Quantum Technology Hubs
Insider Brief New York is seeking proposals to establish up to four quantum technology commercialization hubs across the state, offering as much as $60 million to turn research into startups, products and industry applications. Empire State Development issued the Request for Proposals as part of the state’s effort to build on its existing quantum research […]
SDT Partners With Open Quantum Design to Build Open-Source Quantum Hardware
Insider Brief South Korean quantum technology company SDT has joined Open Quantum Design, a Canadian non-profit organization, as a member and will serve as its official manufacturing partner, the Seoul Economic Daily reported. SDT announced the membership on August 13, with the agreement signed at Quantum Korea 2026. Greg Dick, co-founder and CEO of OQD, […]
Guest Post: Why Quantum Readiness Is Becoming a Venture Capital Question
Guest Post By Utkarsh Ahuja, Managing Partner and founder Moon Pursuit Capital KPMG’s latest Venture Pulse gives you a pretty good sense of where venture capital’s attention is right now. Global VC investment reached $227.4 billion in the second quarter of 2026, making it the second-highest quarter on record, and AI was behind many of […]
Infleqtion Reports Q2 Revenue Growth and Raises 2026 Outlook
Insider Brief Press release – Infleqtion, Inc. (NYSE: INFQ) (“Infleqtion” or the “Company”), a global leader in quantum computing and quantum sensing powered by neutral-atom technology, today reported record second-quarter 2026 revenue of $12.6 million, up 116% year over year, and raised its full-year 2026 revenue outlook to approximately $43 million. “Q2 was a record […]
Guest Post — Quantum Strategy Demands a New Operating Model: From Uncertainty to Readiness.
Guest Post by Dr. Richard Padbury, Dr. Aaron Kemp, Dr. Cian Reeves. In boardrooms around the world, a familiar question keeps coming up: When will quantum advantage arrive? It is a fair question. Increasingly, though, it may be the wrong one. That is not because quantum advantage has yet to be observed. A growing number […]
Kartik Srinivasan Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Optica Quantum
Insider Brief Press release – Optica Publishing Group is pleased to announce that Kartik Srinivasan has been appointed as the new editor-in-chief of Optica Quantum. Srinivasan is a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fellow and Fellow of the NIST/University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute, where he also serves as Co-Director and as an Adjunct […]
D-Wave Awarded National Research Council of Canada Funding to Advance Commercial Annealing Quantum Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), the only dual-platform quantum computing company providing both annealing and gate-model systems, software and services, today announced it has been awarded up to CAD $300,000 in funding from the National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) Applied Quantum Computing Challenge program to advance annealing […]
Yonsei to Install IBM Nighthawk Quantum Processor for Research and Industry Applications
Insider Brief The Yonsei Quantum Initiative will replace its quantum processing unit with IBM’s next-generation Nighthawk processor in November, the Seoul Economic Daily reported. IBM Miami is currently the only site operating a Nighthawk-based quantum computer, making Yonsei expected to become the world’s second research institution to install one. Yonsei is also the first institution […]
ORIENTOM and softwareQ Partner on Quantum Computing Applications for Finance
Insider Brief Press release – ORIENTOM Co., Ltd. and softwareQ Inc. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore joint research, development and innovation opportunities in quantum and quantum-inspired computing for the financial services, banking, and insurance sectors. Objectives of the Collaboration The collaboration aims to establish a framework for the joint exploration, research […]
Uncovering the Hidden Disorder in Silicon Quantum Computers
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Qubits are the quantum counterpart to the bits used in conventional computers. Bits have a “0” and “1” state that is defined by electric charge. In a type of qubit called a silicon spin qubit, the “0” and “1” states are defined by electron spin. This spin can point either […]