Italian Court Upholds Halt to IBM’s €61 Million Campania Quantum Contract
Insider Brief Italy’s highest administrative court has upheld the cancellation of a €61.2 million contract awarded to IBM Italia for the first quantum computer planned for the Campania region. The Council of State rejected an appeal by the Campania regional government and confirmed an earlier ruling that found problems with how the bidding process was […]
New Mexico Offers Matching Funds for DARPA Quantum Computing Projects
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE – New Mexico is offering matching funds to quantum companies pursuing DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) Stage C to bring that work to New Mexico. Economic Development New Mexico’s Technology and Innovation Office (TIO) announced today that QBI Stage C has been added to the list of priority federal programs eligible […]
California Awards $9.7 Million to Build Southern Quantum Workforce and Industry Network
Insider Brief California has awarded $9.7 million to a Southern California quantum initiative designed to expand workforce training, shared testing resources and funding opportunities for emerging companies. The quantum award is part of a broader $48.5 million package supporting 18 projects across eight economic regions and 33 counties. The latest funding round covers industries including […]
Three Law Firms Hold Nearly Two-Thirds of Recorded Quantum Legal Work
Insider Brief A quantum computer depends on layers of hardware, control systems and software. As the technology moves from the laboratory into the commercial market, a legal layer is forming around it as law firms handle acquisitions, public listings, patent disputes and government-backed projects. Three law firms account for nearly two-thirds of the publicly recorded […]
India to Establish Quantum and AI University Campus in Amaravati
Insider Brief Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has approved the establishment of India’s first dedicated Quantum and AI University campus in Amaravati, to be set up by the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), The Hindu BusinessLine reported. The decision was taken […]
Guest Post: Quantum Readiness Starts With the Infrastructure We’re Building Today
Guest Post by Kyle Okamoto, President of Axe Compute. When people talk about quantum readiness, the conversation often moves quickly to the quantum computer itself. How many qubits will we need? When will fault-tolerant systems arrive? Which industries will find commercial applications first? Those questions matter, but I think there is another one worth asking: […]
Types of Quantum Computers: 6 Major Quantum Computing Approaches
Insider Brief A quantum computer is a machine that uses qubits, which can hold a superposition of 0 and 1 and become entangled with one another, to tackle certain problems that overwhelm classical computers. Building reliable qubits is the hard part, and there is still no single agreed way to do it, which is why […]
Pasqal Announces Board of Directors Ahead of Nasdaq Listing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE – Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the composition of the Board of Directors of Pasqal Holding SA (the combined company), following the completion of its business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II. The combined company’s ordinary shares are expected to begin trading on Nasdaq under the […]
QuEra Uses Anthropic AI Agent to Automate Critical Quantum Computer Process
Insider Brief QuEra Computing reported that an artificial-intelligence agent developed software that can restore a critical quantum computer laser system in seconds, potentially reducing the need for specialists to maintain machines at customer sites. The Boston-based quantum computing company reported in a news release that Anthropic’s Claude wrote and tested a control program that recovered […]
Higher-Energy X-Rays Could Enable a New Form of Quantum Sensing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — When certain atoms are irradiated with laser light, they can produce laser pulses with extremely high frequencies in the X-ray range. Until now, the theoretical model of this effect predicted an upper limit to the energy, known as the energy cutoff. Past this point, hardly any X-rays are produced. New […]