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Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech has announced a major new development in the European quantum landscape with the launch of its Quantum Data Center in Barcelona’s innovation district. This new facility is being touted as Europe’s first multimodal quantum infrastructure, establishing Catalonia as a key global hub for quantum computing. The center is designed to host up to 10 quantum computers and is capable of serving thousands of users via Qilimanjaro’s Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS) platform, SpeQtrum. The Advantage of Multimodality What sets this data center apart is its multimodal approach, offering users access to both digital and analog quantum computers, combined with classical high-performance [...]

DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), a program dedicated to a rigorous verification and validation process for achieving utility-scale quantum computing by 2033, has advanced, with eleven companies now entering the year-long Stage B. The ultimate goal is to definitively prove whether a quantum computing approach can deliver computational value that exceeds its cost within the next eight years. Stage B Focus: R&D Blueprint for Utility-Scale QC The newly promoted teams, following a six-month characterization of their concepts in Stage A, will now focus on developing detailed R&D plans in Stage B. This phase requires identifying and mitigating associated technical risks, as [...]

Building Quantum Community Across Africa Overview Farai Mazhandu, physicist, high school teacher, and dynamic social entrepreneur, first worked with quantum tech in 2019. To continue the energy and enthusiasm he experienced from a Qiskit coding class, he first led the Africa chapter of One Quantum and more recently founded the African Quantum Consortium (AQC). In this episode of The Quantum Spin, Farai and host Veronica Combs discuss the challenges and excitement of  creating a continent’s quantum strategy for today and for the future, using Africa’s inherent strengths, and building a broad community. 00:00 Introduction to the Quantum Spin Podcast00:34 Meet Farai [...]

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that advises governments and leaders on strategy, policy and delivery, unlocking the power of technology. They have recently completed a 54-page report titled A UK Quantum Strategy for Sovereignty and Scale that examines the current status of quantum developments in the UK as well as the rest of the world and recommends a strategy that should be taken to enable the UK to lead in quantum. Here is GQI's summary of the key points in this report. The report asserts that quantum technology represents the next critical stage of [...]

Recent news items published within the last 6 months on quantum computing developments are listed below. Click on the hyperlinked item to go to the press release or news article for more details. For older news items published in 2025 click here, for 2024 click here, for 2023 click here, for 2022 click here, for 2021 click here, for 2020 click here, for 2019 click here, for 2018 click here, and for items published in 2015-2017, click here. December 30, 2025USTC’s Zuchongzhi 3.2 Achieves Below-Threshold QEC MilestoneResearchers at USTC have achieved a major milestone in fault-tolerant computing with the Zuchongzhi 3.2 processor, demonstrating quantum error correction (QEC) below the [...]

Recent news items published within the last 6 months on quantum computing developments are listed below. Click on the hyperlinked item to go to the press release or news article for more details. For older news items published in 2024 click here, for 2023 click here, for 2022 click here, for 2021 click here, for 2020 click here, for 2019 click here, for 2018 click here, and for items published in 2015-2017, click here. October 23, 2025IBM Releases Qiskit 2.2 with Increased Support for C and Other New FeaturesIBM has issued a new release of Qiskit, version 2.2. The most significant feature of this new release is a continued [...]

IBM has issued a new release of Qiskit, version 2.2. The most significant feature of this new release is a continued increase in support for C that introduces a standalone transpiler function. IBM first introduced a C-language API with Qiskit 2.0 in April of this year that only provided interactions with a small number of Qiskit functions. But release 2.1 and this new release now greatly expands the C API and makes it possible for users to construct end-to-end quantum workflows that you can execute natively in C as well as other languages integrated via the C API. This C compatibility [...]

D-Wave Quantum Inc. has announced its foundational role in the newly established Q-Alliance in Lombardy, Italy. The alliance, defined in its founding Memorandum of Understanding as "The Birth of the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Hub," is a significant development for both D-Wave’s European footprint and Italy’s national digital strategy. Crucially, the "About" section of the release reveals that Q-Alliance is a joint initiative co-founded by D-Wave Inc. and IonQ Inc., along with independent scientists and Italian institutional authorities. This dual-vendor approach immediately positions the hub to leverage two distinct, commercial-stage quantum computing modalities: D-Wave’s annealing technology and IonQ's trapped-ion gate-model systems. [...]

Turning Quantum Potential into Strategic Plans Overview Government, business and innovation have always been intertwined and quantum tech is no exception. In this episode of The Quantum Spin by HKA, Petra Soderling, CEO of Petra Soderling and Company, explains how government investments in deep tech pay off for private companies that commercialize the inventions. Petra also shares the details of her unique career, from working at Nokia to launching her own startups to drafting quantum strategies for the EU. This episode covers the intricacies of quantum policy, the importance of standards in technology, and the role of government in fostering innovation. [...]

Qunnect announced that it has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to advance components of its quantum networking technology for national defense applications. The amount of the contract was not disclosed but the length of the contract extends for 18 months. Qunnect provides components for use in entanglement-based quantum networks and has demonstrated their use in quantum networks located in New York, Berlin and Montana. Their hardware can be used with standard telecom grade fiberoptic cable and operates at room temperature. The company asserts that their hardware provide best-in-class fidelity and uptime. A press release announcing [...]