Mohamed Abdel-Kareem

Schematic of the future quantum internet. Credit: Alireza Shabani, © 2026. The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), in collaboration with the NSF-funded Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), has published its comprehensive Quantum Networking Applications Roadmap. Built on technical input from over 50 experts across national laboratories, academic research centers, and commercial firms—including IonQ, L3Harris, Aliro Quantum, Qunnect, Argonne, and NIST—the report establishes a systematic gap-analysis framework mapping 10 high-impact commercial use cases against primary hardware performance metrics and component technology readiness levels. The report reveals that today's quantum networking capabilities support only two of the ten assessed applications: Quantum Key Distribution [...]

Swiss quantum hardware startup ZuriQ has raised $25.5 million (€22.4M) in seed funding to scale its 2D trapped-ion quantum computing architecture. Spun out of ETH Zürich in 2024 by Dr. Pavel Hrmo, Dr. Tobias Sägesser, and Dr. Shreyans Jain, the company builds on a $4.2 million pre-seed round raised in 2025. The funding round was led by Quantonation, with additional participation from Forward.one, Extantia, Firgun Ventures, and existing early-stage investors. ZuriQ’s hardware platform addresses a fundamental scaling limit in conventional trapped-ion systems. While legacy architectures rely on radio-frequency (RF) Paul traps that constrain ions into single-file 1D chains stitched together via [...]

Trapped-ion quantum hardware developer IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) has secured final regulatory approval to finalize its acquisition of SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), the largest exclusively U.S.-based semiconductor foundry. First announced as a definitive $1.8 billion cash-and-stock transaction in January 2026, the deal is set to close on July 31, 2026. Following transaction completion, SkyWater will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary under its existing brand, maintaining its commercial pure-play foundry model while providing IonQ with embedded, dedicated fabrication lines. The combined entity will hold its Q2 2026 financial earnings call on August 5, 2026, followed by an investor day scheduled for September [...]

Four commercial quantum companies—Infleqtion, Aliro Technologies, Tensora, and Bandelier Technologies—have officially signed on to leverage ABQ-Net, the first open-access, entanglement-based quantum network testbed in the United States. Built by Brooklyn-based quantum networking developer Qunnect in partnership with Roadrunner Venture Studios and supported by the New Mexico Technology and Innovation Office, ABQ-Net gives founders live metropolitan fiber testing environments to develop and validate physics-based security, distributed sensing, and network protocols without investing in capital-intensive internal infrastructure. The network forms a core operational pillar of New Mexico's broader $450 million state initiative to accelerate quantum technology commercialization. The inaugural cohort will deploy distinct quantum hardware [...]

Quantum error correction (QEC) developer Riverlane and non-profit research organization Unitary Foundation have launched the Deltakit Community Fund, a quarterly microgrant initiative designed to accelerate open-source QEC software development. Building on the momentum of June’s unitaryHACK26 hackathon, the rolling fund provides global software contributors with milestone awards ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 for building production-grade features into Deltakit, Riverlane’s open-source QEC development toolkit. The fund targets foundational infrastructure challenges in quantum error management, prioritizing external developer contributions in areas such as error budget bounding, fault-tolerant threshold computation, and ZX-graph benchmarking libraries. Managed through Unitary Foundation’s open-source merit frameworks, the program provides [...]

Israel-based hardware developer QTREX Quantum Ltd. (Nasdaq: QTEX) has launched a research collaboration with Northeastern University to develop advanced micro-system structures for cryogenic quantum interconnects. Pursuant to the agreement, Northeastern grants QTREX a first option to negotiate a commercial license for all sole or jointly developed intellectual property arising directly from the joint research. Led by Prof. Benyamin Davaji, the effort pairs Northeastern’s Quantum Materials and Sensing Institute with QTREX’s Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) platform to expand the company's vertically integrated quantum connectivity pipeline. The research program focuses on evaluating three-dimensional additively manufactured micro-system structures and interconnect geometries designed to withstand [...]

Telecommunications leader AT&T (NYSE: T) has signed a commercial agreement with D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) to expand its use of quantum annealing technology across its network infrastructure operations. Building on initial pilot benchmarks—where D-Wave's quantum annealing hardware reduced a network optimization processing workload from one hour down to under 15 seconds—AT&T plans to integrate quantum optimization into its operational tooling, including its deployment of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Integrating Quantum Annealing into Agentic AI Workflows AT&T's network management architecture increasingly relies on autonomous agentic AI tools to handle high-intensity operational tasks, such as outage detection, automated fault isolation, and [...]

Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) has appointed Susan Hunt as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Hunt brings over 30 years of experience in enterprise sales and go-to-market execution across AI, cloud computing, and telecommunications, having previously held executive roles at Orbital Insight, Nuance Communications, LivePerson, Salesforce, and Sprint PCS. Concurrently, former CRO Pouya Dianat has transitioned into the newly created role of Chief Product Officer (CPO) to direct QCi's product strategy and manage the commercialization roadmap across its photonics and semiconductor portfolio. The official release is available here. Quantinuum has appointed Robin Schulman as Chief Legal Officer (CLO) and Company Secretary, effective July [...]

Quantum software provider Quantum Elements has released Orbit, an advanced error suppression tool accessible as a Qiskit Function in the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog. Designed to streamline noise management for quantum developers, Orbit provides members of the IBM Quantum Network with an automated, low-overhead suite to improve circuit execution fidelity on live processors. The tool eliminates the need for manual, circuit-by-circuit noise tuning, allowing enterprise engineering teams, algorithm researchers, and academic scientists to extract greater computational value from their allotted quantum runtime. At its core, Orbit unifies three complementary performance-enhancement techniques into a single callable workflow: dynamical decoupling, hardware-aware transpilation, and [...]

Quantum software provider Qedma has announced a technical integration with Quantinuum, making its Quantum Error Suppression and Error Mitigation (QESEM) platform directly available across Quantinuum’s trapped-ion hardware systems. Developed over the past year through Qedma’s role as a founding member of the Quantinuum Startup Partner Program, the integration combines Qedma’s hardware-agnostic noise-reduction algorithms with Quantinuum’s high-fidelity quantum CCD (QCCD) architecture. The joint solution aims to enhance circuit accuracy, enabling enterprise and research users to run deeper, more complex quantum workloads across chemistry, materials science, and financial modeling. Quantinuum’s systems are widely recognized for achieving high average two-qubit gate fidelities, making them [...]