Insider Brief As the calendar turns to 2026, expectations for quantum computing are sharpening — and cooling. A review of more than 100-or-so prediction markets hosted on Manifold Markets suggests that the community most closely tracking quantum progress now anticipates steady engineering gains rather than dramatic breakthroughs next year. The
Each year, we like to peer into the immediate future by tapping into the collective wisdom of the smartest people we know — our readers and the thought leaders who deeply understand the industry. The following is a collection of quotes, thoughts and excerpts about the immediate future of the
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Royal Navy has continued to trial quantum technology aimed at satellite-free navigation – this time in the Arctic with Imperial College London. The test, carried out in collaboration with Imperial, is the latest step in a year-long effort to turn quantum-enhanced inertial sensors from
Insider Brief 2025 may be looked at as a watershed year for the quantum industry. A surge of late-stage funding and partnerships reshapted the global quantum industry in 2025, with investors concentrating capital on specific hardware architectures, cloud software platforms and security technologies that promise nearer-term commercial returns, according to
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of individual trapped cold atoms in Italy, introducing techniques that push single-atom detection into new performance