Doug Finke

Stephen DiAdamo, co-founder and CTO of Qoro Quantum, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. DiAdamo discusses Qoro’s position as a software middleware company that abstracts hardware away from applications, walking through the Divi SDK, circuit serialization and parallelization, and an orchestrator that automatically selects between 12 simulation methods on CPU and GPU or dispatches to QPUs from any vendor. They explore how Qoro plugs into HPC schedulers like SLURM rather than replacing them, the CESGA proof of concept built on the CUNQA platform, the “150,000 lines of code to 20” claim, and the argument that multi-QPU centers are needed today for fallback [...]

Passion is Key for Communicating Quantum Overview With the growing momentum and investment in the quantum sector, now is the time to tell a clear and compelling story about this powerful technology. That's the advice from HKA Marketing Communications leaders Cierra Lunde, Director, Strategic Content, and Mike Kilroy, Executive Vice President, who explain why the key to success is passion for quantum. In this episode of The Quantum Spin by HKA, Cierra describes her path to quantum tech and the strategies she uses to make quantum computing understandable for everyone. While Cierra has become a world-class communicator in a relatively short [...]

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. August 21, 2026Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook Demonstrate First US Free-Space Quantum Network Link Across 13 MilesBrookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have established the first permanent free-space optical quantum link [...]

March 31, 2026EPB Joins Southeastern Quantum Collaborative to Support Regional Infrastructure IntegrationEPB has joined the Southeastern Quantum Collaborative (SQC) to coordinate quantum research and workforce development across the region. This partnership utilizes the EPB Quantum Network to transition technologies from laboratories to industrial applications in energy, logistics, and defense. EPB is currently installing an IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer, which will provide the first integrated commercial access to both trapped-ion hardware and a photonics-based network. This infrastructure builds on collaborations with Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories to develop quantum-resilient communications for power grid management. Read more in our full [...]

By Doug Finke IBM Quantum’s announcement about their intended acquisition of HRL Laboratories is quite important and a little surprising. But if you look at this further, there are good reasons why this makes a lot of sense. Here are our thoughts on this. Technology Transitions If you look at the history of technology development, you will find that it is quite common for a new technology to start off with one type of implementation and then later transition to a much different implementation that provides improved cost, performance, or quality. A good example is the semiconductor industry which started with [...]

IBM has announced two major advancements this past week, spanning both its quantum hardware and software ecosystems. Hardware: 25x Faster Qubit Resets On the hardware front, IBM achieved a 25x speed improvement for qubit resetting on its latest processor. Rapid reset times are critical after a circuit finishes executing, as they prepare the machine for the next run. The faster this occurs, the more circuits the system can execute per second. To quantify this efficiency, IBM introduced a new metric called Max Circuits per Second (MCPS). The company claims that for short circuits, MCPS has jumped from roughly 4,000 to 100,000. [...]

Logical Qubit Technology Co., Ltd has launched its superconducting quantum computing cloud platform at its Quantum Day 2026 event on July 9, 2026. Led by founder and CEO Zhen Wang, the company is positioning the platform as a bridge to lower user barriers and cultivate a B2B ecosystem. At launch, the platform will provide provides quantum circuit execution support for its 30-qubit and 100-qubit AGate series chips. At the event, the company highlighted performance metrics across physical, logical, and pulse-level control tiers, backed by a strategic roadmap targeting fault-tolerant systems by the end of the decade. Key Hardware & Technical Specifications [...]

Quantum Rings has announced a partnership with qBraid to make their Open Quantum platform available within the qBraid Lab. The development will provide developers and researchers free, subsidized access to QPUs from IonQ, Rigetti, IQM, and AQT. With Open Quantum, users will have available a unified access point to run programs and try out different quantum architectures by just changing a single line of code. qBraid currently has over 27,000 developers on their system and these developers can link their account to Open Quantum by visiting openquantum.com/qbraid to link the accounts. User accounts with the hardware providers will not be required making it simpler for a [...]

Why Startup Storytelling is a Good Investment Overview How do you make your quantum startup stand out in an industry where every company name starts with the letter Q? One powerful way to do that is to tell the stories of the people building the technology. Christopher Godfree, Commercial Director at Across the Pond, has worked with Ai executives, robotics experts and Google’s Quantum Team to explain how their work will change the world. In this episode of The Quantum Spin by HKA, Christopher and host Veronica Combs discuss how storytelling can derisk deep tech investments and why it’s important to [...]

Yuval Boger interviews Corey O’Meara, Chief Quantum Scientist at E.ON Digital Technology. They discuss how E.ON’s five-person quantum team works with business units to find high-value use cases, especially where classical methods may hit bottlenecks in optimization and machine learning. Corey describes the company’s work on peer-to-peer energy trading and other grid-related applications, and shares his perspective on cloud access, hybrid deployment, and the accelerating progress toward fault-tolerant quantum computing. Key Takeaways E.ON's five-person quantum team only takes on optimization problems that are proven to scale exponentially with classical solvers like Gurobi; complexity, not data volume, is the deciding factor. A [...]