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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 [...]

Quantum Elements and the University of Southern California (USC) have published a peer-reviewed paper in Physical Review Letters (PRL) detailing a new Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm that significantly lowers the classical computing power needed to simulate noisy quantum circuits. Traditional open-system simulations rely on direct density-matrix tracking, which scales exponentially quickly crippling classical hardware. The new paper titled Real-Time Sign-Problem-Suppressed Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithm for Noisy Quantum Circuit Simulations co-authored by Dr. Tong Shen and USC Professor Daniel A. Lidar, describes how the new algorithm suppresses the notorious quantum "sign problem." This new algorithm models noisy quantum-circuit behavior with a fraction [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced Quantum Genesis, an ambitious initiative to build and deploy the world’s first scientifically relevant, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2028. Operating under the broader AI and supercomputing-focused Genesis Mission, the program aims to integrate advanced quantum processors directly with the nation's leading supercomputing ecosystems. The initiative directly follows a pair of quantum-focused Executive Orders, including Ushering the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation, which mandate accelerated American leadership in quantum information science (QIS) and establish the Quantum Computer for Application Development and Discovery Science (QC-ADDS) effort. In May, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a [...]

By Mohamed Abdel-Kareem Moving to standard CMOS wafer manufacturing is very helpful for certain modalities but not all. The real competitive advantages come from fabrication throughput—measured in wafers per hour (WPH)—and cycle time (i.e. the time from design submission to tested device). This is where manufacturing economics meets quantum roadmaps. The IonQ-SkyWater Acquisition: A Case Study in Vertical Integration In January 2026, IonQ announced its intent to acquire SkyWater Technology, one of the largest U.S.-based pure-play semiconductor foundries, for approximately $1.8 billion. The transaction, which received shareholder approval in May 2026 and is expected to close in the second or third [...]

President Donald J. Trump has signed two Executive Orders aimed at cementing American leadership in the quantum era. Together with their accompanying Fact Sheets, the directives lay out a strategy designed to protect the nation from advanced cryptographic attacks while simultaneously encouraging commercial and scientific quantum innovation. Here is a breakdown of key provisions in the newly released directives. 1. Defensive Shield: Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration The first Executive Order 14412, "Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks," acknowledges the immediate threat of "harvest now, decrypt later" operations by foreign adversaries. It establishes a strict, legally mandated timeline for federal agencies to [...]

Yuval Boger interviews Helmut Katzgraber, general partner at 55North and former quantum leader at AWS. They discuss Helmut’s view that the most promising near- to mid-term quantum applications are in quantum simulation for materials, chemicals, and pharma, rather than optimization. They also explore European competitiveness, venture opportunities across the quantum stack, cloud and on-prem deployment models, and the workforce and product skills needed to turn quantum ideas into successful companies. Transcript Yuval: Hello, Helmut, and thank you for joining me today. Helmut: Hi, Yuval. Nice talking to you again. Yuval: So who are you and what do you do? Helmut: My name is Helmut Katzgraber. [...]

Guest post by Zeynep Koruturk, Dr. Kris Naudts, & Donald Harmitt of Firgun Ventures and Professor Bob Coecke of Relational Intelligence Limited Few questions in the quantum sector are asked more often, or answered more loosely, than how many qubits a useful quantum computer will require. Press releases announce systems with hundreds of qubits, then thousands, and the implicit suggestion is that the field is approaching a finish line. The reality is more nuanced, and arguably more interesting. It is not as black and white as saying there is a single number of qubits that makes a quantum computer "useful". The [...]