Pasqal Receives SEC Clearance for Proposed SPAC Combination With Bleichroeder
Insider Brief Press release – Pasqal Holding SAS (“Pasqal”), a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced that its joint registration statement on Form F-4 (the “Registration Statement”) with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: BBCQ) (“Bleichroeder”), filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in connection with the proposed business combination between […]
D-Wave Reports Bookings Surge as Quarterly Revenue Holds Steady
Insider Brief D-Wave Quantum reported flat second-quarter revenue but continued strong growth in bookings, underscoring growing customer demand as the company accelerated investment in both its annealing and gate-model quantum computing platforms. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $3.1 million, essentially unchanged from a year earlier, while bookings increased 59% to $2.1 million. For the […]
Daon Develops Five-Patent Architecture for Quantum-Ready Digital Identity
Insider Brief Press release – Daon®, The Digital Identity Trust Company, today introduced its Quantum Identity architecture, a patent-backed approach designed to help future identity systems determine not only whether cryptography remains secure, but whether the biometric and authentication evidence entering the system is genuine. Backed by five issued US patents, the architecture addresses a […]
Quantum Optics Jena’s ELVIS System Passes Independent Security Testing for Quantum Communication
Insider Brief Press release – Quantum Optics Jena GmbH today announced that its ELVIS system has become the world’s first quantum communication system to resist real-world quantum hacking tricks, passing the most-rigorous round of independent security testing to date. The ELVIS system was subject to six tests, under ISO/IEC 23837, conducted over three months by […]
NIST Researchers Demonstrate Entangled Photon Transmission Over Existing Fiber Networks
Insider Brief In early 2025, special signals wended their way through a fiber-optic highway strung above the streets and sidewalks of the Maryland suburbs. The arrival of those signals at their destination marks a significant step toward a long-held dream of building a “quantum network.” Researchers believe that this emerging technology could someday link quantum […]
Why DARPA Is Turning Its Attention to Quantum Manufacturing
Insider Brief DARPA is shifting more of its attention from demonstrating quantum technologies in the laboratory to figuring out how to manufacture them at scale, according to a news release from the agency. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this week launched It’s About Time, a new program intended to establish a pilot manufacturing […]
Xanadu Reports Higher Revenue in 2Q 2026, Expands U.S. Operations
Insider Brief Xanadu Quantum Technologies reported higher year-over-year second-quarter revenue while stepping up investment in research, manufacturing and U.S. expansion, as the photonic quantum computing company continued advancing the technologies it says are needed to build large-scale quantum computers. The Toronto-based company reported in a news release that second-quarter revenue of $1.5 million, up from […]
Guest Post: From the Cosmos to Quantum Computers
Guest Post by Michael Osei, M.Sc. in Physics. Press release – Quantum technology can sound like science fiction: computers that solve problems beyond the reach of today’s machines, sensors that detect the almost undetectable, and discoveries that could reshape medicine, materials, energy, communications, and security. But behind the headlines are researchers asking practical questions: What […]
Photons for Reach, Atoms for Entanglement: A Compound Photon-Atom Blueprint for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
By combining the long-range connectivity of photonic qubits with near-deterministic entanglement mediated by cavity-coupled atoms, Quantum Source’s new blueprint lays out a concrete, quantitative path toward practical fault-tolerant quantum computing. Insider Brief Today’s quantum processors have demonstrated remarkable scientific progress. Researchers have improved qubit fidelities, extended coherence times, and executed increasingly sophisticated algorithms. Strip away […]
IonQ’s Space Division Awarded NRO Radar Commercial Augmentation Contract
Insider Brief Press release – IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum platform company, today announced that Capella, an IonQ company, has been awarded a contract under the National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) Radar Commercial Augmentation (RCA) program. Under the contract, the company will provide commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery and data services in support […]