Mohamed Abdel-Kareem

Quantum hardware and networking company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and Chattanooga electric power and telecommunications provider EPB have announced plans to launch the Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center. Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the research and development innovation laboratory will be directly connected to an operational fiber optic communications network. The initiative aims to integrate commercial quantum memory units directly into live telecommunications infrastructure to support long-distance quantum information storage and routing. The center will be funded through a $15 million, five-year financial commitment from IonQ and staffed by IonQ research scientists. EPB will supply the live fiber optic network testbed and act [...]

Global digital services provider Fujitsu, Monash University, and Australia’s national science agency CSIRO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the development of practical quantum applications and build an industry-ready workforce. Signed on August 4, 2026, the strategic partnership grants Australian researchers and students direct access to Fujitsu’s quantum systems and simulators hosted in Japan to support advanced computing, quantum software, and application research. The collaboration aligns with the newly established Memorandum of Cooperation between Australia and Japan on quantum science, technology, and innovation. Joint research efforts will concentrate on three key priorities: developing practical quantum applications in optimization, [...]

Mitten codes as fault-tolerant qLDPC processors Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Oratomic, Inc. have introduced mitten codes, a new family of non-abelian quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) error-correcting codes. Published on arXiv under the title "High-rate qLDPC processors," the research addresses the long-standing challenge of creating fault-tolerant quantum processors that simultaneously achieve high encoding rates, low logical gadget overheads, hardware compatibility, and fast, accurate decoding. Mitten codes achieve a constant 20% encoding rate with a low check weight of 9. They are constructed as lifted product codes using classical base matrices over non-abelian groups such as C5​×S3​, C4​×D10​, [...]

Indian quantum cybersecurity developer QNu Labs has partnered with the SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) to establish a dedicated Quantum Communications Lab and train the university's first certified cohort of faculty members in quantum communications. Supported by India's National Quantum Mission (NQM) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the workforce initiative focuses on training educators to scale quantum communications coursework across higher education institutions. Incubated at the IIT Madras Research Park, QNu Labs equipped the new laboratory at SRMIST's Kattankulathur campus with deployed, industry-grade hardware—the same quantum-safe technology utilized across national defense and banking infrastructure. Rather than [...]

Quantum computing developer Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) has partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)—a joint center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh—to construct TangleLab, a hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing testbed. Funded by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Advanced Computing Systems & Services program (Award #2537076), the facility will integrate a 9-qubit Novera™ quantum computing system with classical High-Performance Computing (HPC) and graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure. TangleLab expands upon Rigetti and HPE’s ongoing commercial collaboration to build quantum-enabled HPC systems. Designed to operate at PSC's new [...]

The University of California, Berkeley—on behalf of its Department of Physics and the Roger Herst Quantum Nexus—has signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with quantum automation developer QuantrolOx to advance the industrialization of superconducting quantum computing. Effective July 7, 2026, the non-binding framework combines UC Berkeley’s open, "white-box" superconducting qubit hardware testbeds with QuantrolOx's machine-learning-driven Quantum EDGE software suite to transition quantum hardware operations from manual laboratory experiments to automated, reproducible workflows. Led by UC Berkeley Physics Professor Irfan Siddiqi and QuantrolOx CEO Vishal Chatrath, the collaboration will use the Roger Herst Quantum Nexus as a shared innovation space for [...]

Federally chartered crypto bank Anchorage Digital has unveiled its post-quantum compute (PQC) preparedness strategy, establishing an operational blueprint to safeguard digital asset holdings against emerging quantum decryption threats. Recognizing that quantum algorithms such as Shor's algorithm pose a direct threat to public-key digital signatures, the firm has deployed a multi-layered security infrastructure designed to neutralize "harvest now, decrypt later" adversary models. To secure client holdings at rest and in transit, Anchorage Digital has integrated three foundational cryptographic safeguards: Hash-Based Bitcoin Address Conventions: Utilizing hash-based address models that prevent public key exposure prior to transaction execution, keeping dormant Bitcoin holdings quantum-safe at [...]

Micro-cap technology holding firm Two Hands Corporation (OTC: TWOH)—which is in the process of changing its corporate identity to Quantum X Inc.—has announced that the base user interface for its internally developed quantum circuit simulation software, EntangleX, is now open to selected external partners for third-party beta testing. The milestone follows a phase of internal development led by project lead Ujjwal Roy and CEO Emil Assentato. Designed as a browser-based, GPU-accelerated simulation environment, EntangleX allows technical teams, researchers, and educators to model, execute, and analyze quantum circuits using classical infrastructure without requiring direct access to physical quantum processors. The platform includes [...]

Superconducting quantum computer developer IQM Quantum Computers (Nasdaq: IQMX) and European rail operator Deutsche Bahn have published joint research demonstrating the execution of a hybrid quantum-classical optimization algorithm on real-world operational railway data. Executed end-to-end on IQM’s Emerald quantum processor, the study addresses the complex challenge of rolling stock planning—assigning physical train units to scheduled trips while minimizing operational costs and adhering to strict maintenance constraints. The collaboration evaluated a real operational dataset provided by Deutsche Bahn's IT subsidiary, DB Systel, consisting of 190 scheduled trips across five major German cities (Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Hamburg) over a two-day planning [...]

Global professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY) has announced the addition of an on-site quantum computer to its in-house technology stack. Led by EY Canada, the deployment serves as a key innovation hub within EY's global enterprise tech strategy. The hardware installation forms part of a broader $3 billion global investment in artificial intelligence and next-frontier computing, expanding the firm's commercial capacity to process data-sensitive enterprise workloads across optimization, fraud detection, data protection, and large-scale risk management. By hosting an on-site system directly inside Canadian borders rather than relying exclusively on cloud-based quantum access, EY addresses stringent data sovereignty, regulatory, [...]