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CGI And D-Wave Quantum Partner to Advance Enterprise Quantum Adoption ↗

Insider brief PRESS RELEASE — CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, today announced a strategic partnership with D-Wave Quantum Inc.…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

CGI And D-Wave Quantum Partner to Advance Enterprise Quantum Adoption ↗

Insider brief PRESS RELEASE — CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, today announced a strategic partnership with D-Wave Quantum Inc.…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Qunnect Publishes Research on Quantum Security Beyond QKD ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Qunnect, the leading quantum networking company with more quantum networks deployed than any other company, today announced its work with U.S. government agencies and national security…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

German Government Selects QUDORA-Led Consortium For €122 Million Project ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QUDORA will lead a seven-member consortium of research institutions and industry partners in a bid to build one of Europe’s most advanced quantum computers. The project, named NFQC-1k, is…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Global Study Finds Quantum Industry Dependent on Cross-Border Supply Chains ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A new international survey of the quantum industry finds that the supply chains supporting quantum technologies are deeply global, with companies of every size relying on suppliers and…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Q.ANT Launches Open-Source SDK for Photonic Computing ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Q.ANT, the pioneer in commercial photonic computing, today debuted its open-source software development kit for photonic computing, making the programming tools for a photonic processor…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Photonic Inc. and Microsoft Collaborate on Quantum Resource Estimation ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Photonic Inc. and Microsoft are collaborating on quantum resource estimation for distributed, large-scale quantum computing systems and advanced error-correction approaches. The companies…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

CGI and D-Wave Partner on Enterprise Quantum Computing ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, today announced a strategic partnership with D-Wave Quantum Inc.…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Classiq, INGL and IonQ Test Quantum Optimization for Natural Gas Networks ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Classiq and Israel Natural Gas Lines Ltd. (INGL) announced results from research applying quantum optimization to natural gas transmission planning, including execution of a reduced version…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

IonQ Bringing QPU to The NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Today, IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) announced that it will be the first on-premise quantum computing deployment at the NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center (NVAQC). The NVAQC is designed to…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Cisco and KETS Integrate Quantum Key Distribution With Cisco IOS XR Routers ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Cisco and KETS Quantum Security today announced a major milestone in secure communications by successfully integrating KETS’ chip-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology with…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Yenepoya University and Edutecnicia Partner on Quantum AI Research ↗

Insider Brief Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) has entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Edutecnicia Pvt Ltd, working through its AI research initiative REYRA AI, to build collaborative research, training…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Xanadu Appoints Tara Deakin as Chief People Officer ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited (“Xanadu“; NASDAQ/TSX: XNDU), a leading photonic quantum computing company, today announced the addition of a strategic leader to its executive team…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Stony Brook Hosts Congressional Briefing on Quantum Technology ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Stony Brook University brought its leadership in quantum science and education to Capitol Hill on September 16, convening members of Congress, senior federal science officials and…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Fermilab and Microsoft Partner on Quantum Hardware Tools ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is joining Microsoft Quantum as an initial partner in the company’s new quantum hardware makerspace in its newest…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Tiny Quantum Nanostructures Could Make AI Less of an Energy Hog ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a new type of quantum nanostructure that could enable optical neural networks. This emerging technology has the potential to…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

QuEra Computing Opens Office in Discovery District Maryland ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuEra Computing, the Boston-based leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, will open an office in Discovery District Maryland, joining the Capital of Quantum’s expanding roster of quantum…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

IonQ Demonstrates End-to-End Real-Time Quantum Error Decoder ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, today announced a major milestone in fault-tolerant quantum computing. Researchers demonstrated the…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 23

Microsoft Gives DARPA Access to Majorana System, Opens Maryland Quantum Research Center ↗

Insider Brief Microsoft has opened a quantum research center in Maryland that will house one of its topological quantum systems for independent testing by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, widening the…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

Zapata Launches Platform to Help Companies Assess Quantum Use Cases ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Zapata Quantum, Inc. (OTCQB: ZPTA) (“Zapata,” “Zapata Quantum” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing algorithm and application development, today announced early access to…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

Quobly Brings Alloy Forge to qBraid for Silicon Quantum Development ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quobly, a French company developing silicon-based quantum computers, and qBraid, a quantum computing cloud service providing access to more than 24 quantum computers, today announced that…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

Quantum XChange and Carahsoft Partner on Post-Quantum Cryptography for Government ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum XChange®, a leader in quantum-safe network security, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced a partnership. Under the…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

Babcock and Arqit Demonstrate Quantum-Safe Encryption for Defence Communications ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, has demonstrated its systems integration expertise by securely transferring scenario data using advanced encryption technology…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

QuEra and HPE Partner on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing for HPC ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuEra Computing, the leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced a collaboration with HPE to integrate neutral-atom, fault-tolerant quantum computing with on-premise…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

QuEra, HPE Partner to Bring Neutral-Atom Quantum Systems to Supercomputing Centers ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuEra Computing, the leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced a collaboration with HPE to integrate neutral-atom, fault-tolerant quantum computing with on-premise…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

Aviatrix Launches Harvest and Decrypt Protection for Post-Quantum Security ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Aviatrix today announced Harvest and Decrypt Protection, the first post-quantum protection that encrypts and simultaneously governs what a compromised workload can reach. It delivers…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

Microsoft Quantum, QOLAB Propose Higher Bar For ‘Scalable’ Logical Qubits ↗

Insider Brief A framework from Microsoft Quantum and QOLAB proposes that quantum computing’s next progress reports should be judged by more than a rising count of logical qubits. The paper, posted on arXiv by Microsoft…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

SK Telecom and KISTI Develop Digital Twin for QKD Network Testing ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SK Telecom (CEO Jeong Jae-heon, CEO) news.sktelecom.com 22, said that in collaboration with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), the company has developed…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

Toward Scalable Quantum Networks: An Efficient And Practical Approach to Secure Quantum Conferencing ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum key distribution allows two users to establish secret keys whose security is grounded in the laws of quantum mechanics. Extending this capability to multiple users is an essential…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

Chulalongkorn University and Qunova Computing Sign Quantum Computing MoU ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Chulalongkorn University has signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Qunova Computing Inc. of the Republic of Korea to establish collaboration in quantum computing…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

IonQ and SDT Partner on Quantum Computing and Manufacturing in South Korea ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, today announced a strategic partnership with Korea-based quantum technology and software company SDT, Inc.…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 22

IEEE-Presented Study Tests Quantum-to-Classical Handoff for Distributed Computing ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A study presented at IEEE proposes a way to test whether results from quantum processors remain recognizable and useful as they move into the conventional computing systems that would…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

Cornell Researchers Demonstrate Standing-Wave EIT Cooling for Trapped Ions ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Nullspace, a leading provider of advanced electromagnetic simulation software, today announced that researchers at Cornell University, led by Professor Karan Mehta, used Nullspace ES to…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

Intel CEO Sees Quantum Computing Working Alongside CPUs and GPUs ↗

Insider Brief Intel Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan said quantum computers are likely to work alongside conventional processors rather than replace them, as the industry searches for commercially useful applications. “In my…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

Chulalongkorn University and AIST Sign MoU on Quantum Technology ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Chulalongkorn University and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan, through the Global Research and Development Center for Business by…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

D-Wave Appoints Former BNP Paribas CIO Bernard Gavgani to Board ↗

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…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

New Sandpit Program Targets Quantum Silicon Photonics Platforms ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — – CORNERSTONE, the silicon photonics foundry at the University of Southampton, today announces the opening of applications for its Photonics Innovation Centre (C-PIC) Future Leaders…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

SEALSQ, WISeKey and Jura Sign MoU for Swiss Post-Quantum Semiconductor Center ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) (“SEALSQ” or “Company”), a company that focuses on developing and selling Semiconductors, PKI, and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software products, its…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

NLM Photonics and SilOriX Partner on Silicon Organic Hybrid Photonics ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — NLM Photonics and SilOriX, both leaders in silicon organic hybrid (SOH) photonic solutions, today announced that they have entered into a Joint Development Agreement to advance…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

Diraq and Dell Test Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing in Sydney ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Diraq and Dell Technologies are working together to address one of the central challenges in quantum computing: how to integrate quantum processors with classical high‑performance computing…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

GlobalFoundries Finalizes $375M CHIPS Award for Quantum Technology R&D ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced it has finalized a definitive agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Research and Development Office for a $375 million…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

QNu Labs Launches QShield 2.0 for Cryptographic Discovery and Quantum Readiness ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Most organisations cannot currently produce an accurate account of their own cryptography. QNu Labs, a global leader in quantum security solutions, has launched QShield 2.0 today, the…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 21

DOE Panel Ties Future National Quantum Facility to Proof of Scientific Use ↗

Insider Brief For a committee advising the U.S. government on fault-tolerant quantum computing, the message appears to be money talks, but qubits still have to walk. A proposed national quantum computing user facility…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 19

Tom Darras (Welinq): Scaling quantum computers by networking shared entanglement ↗

Yuval Boger interviews Tom Darras, CEO and co-founder of Welinq. They discuss how quantum networking uses shared entanglement to interconnect quantum processors, enabling modular scale-out clusters and quantum-safe…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 19

EPB Launches IonQ Forte Enterprise Quantum Computer in Chattanooga ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — EPB today launched the IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer at EPB Quantum CenterSM, bringing commercial quantum computing and networking together in one facility for the first time. The…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

Global Quantum + AI Challenge Advances After Phase 1 Draws More Than 1,000 Entrants From Around The World ↗

Insider Brief The Global Quantum + AI Challenge is moving into its second phase after attracting more than 1,000 entrants from around the world to address practical problems submitted by five major enterprises.…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

Guest Post — The Quantum Inflection Point: Charting a Science-First Roadmap for the Nation ↗

By Dr. Darío Gil, the Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. His office is the nation’s largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences, supporting all 17 National Laboratories…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

Quantum Simulation Explained: Applications, Methods and Challenges ↗

Insider Brief A molecule with fifty interacting particles needs more numbers to describe its full quantum state than a classical supercomputer can store. That’s the wall classical chemistry keeps hitting, and it’s why…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

MIT’s Robotic Optics Lab Could Speed Testing for Quantum Technology ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Every new generation of phone display, television screen, and solar panel is a result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

Researchers Observe First Real-Time Quantum Jump in Sound ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A Stanford team has documented the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator, completing an arc of scientific exploration that started over a hundred…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

ICTK and Jiran Security Partner on Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration ↗

Insider Brief South Korean quantum security company ICTK (KOSDAQ: 456010) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with information security firm Jiran Security to jointly work on post-quantum cryptography…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

Montana State Offers Free Quantum Science Curriculum for Middle Schools ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Montana middle school educators are invited to apply for QuantumClub, an education and outreach project developed by Montana State University’s QCORE and the Science Math Resource Center in…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

Lawrence Semiconductor Appoints Don Garrison as General Manager and COO ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Lawrence Semiconductor, a U.S.-owned manufacturer of engineered silicon and germanium epitaxial materials, today announced that Don Garrison has joined as General Manager and Chief…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

Qtonic Quantum Launches QShield for Post-Quantum Network Protection ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Qtonic Quantum Corp today launched QShield, its SAFE/29 packet runtime, and opened paid, scoped, operator-led engagements to enterprise and government organizations, available now. QShield…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 18

Superconducting Transistors to Solve Quantum Computing Woes ↗

A quantum computer can be an ungainly thing, because even the most elegant qubit-housing cryostat usually sprouts a thicket of control cables. Most qubits don’t work above a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, but…

Industry IEEE Spectrum · Sep 17

TQI and Tesseract Quantum Partner for The Quantum Kid ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Quantum Insider (TQI) is pleased to announce it has entered into a partnership with Tesseract Quantum, a Swiss educational non-profit, whose flagship YouTube science channel The Quantum…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 17

Guest Post: Why AI Agent Identities Need Post-Quantum Cryptography ↗

Guest Post by Michael Heinrich, co-founder and CEO of 0G Labs Ask a security team about quantum risk, and the conversation usually starts with encryption: harvest now, decrypt later, with adversaries recording today’s…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 17

IonQ and Synopsys Report Up to 14.6% Faster Engineering Simulations ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, today detailed research conducted with Synopsys. The publication shows early results that quantum algorithms…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 17

NLM Photonics and LIGENTEC Demonstrate Silicon Nitride Organic Hybrid Modulators ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — NLM Photonics, the leader in the development of organic electro-optic (OEO) technology, has partnered with LIGENTEC to produce the first Silicon Nitride Organic Hybrid (NOH) modulators on a…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 17

Quantum X Labs Launches QuantumQ Security Program for Quantum Cybersecurity ↗

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum X Labs Inc. (Nasdaq: QXL) (“Quantum X Labs” or the “Company”), a quantum technology company developing technologies across quantum computing, sensing, simulation and cybersecurity…

Industry The Quantum Insider · Sep 17

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