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The Government of Spain has launched its first Quantum Technologies Strategy (2025–2030) with an initial investment of €808 million ($917 million USD), announced at the OECD Global Technology Forum in Madrid on April 24, 2025. Ministers Óscar López and Diana Morant presented the initiative, which supports quantum computing, communications, and sensing. Funding is drawn from the ERDF and Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (RTRP) and is expected to reach €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion USD) when including leveraged public and private capital. The strategy is framed as a national commitment to quantum infrastructure and digital transformation. The strategy outlines four national objectives: [...]

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. has entered into a four-year research and development partnership with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to accelerate the development of silicon photonic integrated circuits for quantum computing and communications. The collaboration will support joint efforts to optimize photonic components such as entangled photon sources and squeezed light generators, which are essential for building fault-tolerant photonic quantum processors. The agreement also includes knowledge exchange around chip-scale integration and circuit-level design, with an emphasis on future military and commercial applications. As part of the partnership, AFRL will provide Xanadu with access to its silicon photonics Process Design [...]

Qubit-Neutral: Qblox Builds Quantum Control Stack Overview Recorded live at the APS Global Quantum Summit in Anaheim, California in March 2025 Quantum hardware isn’t quite ready for server racks in data centers, but that is the vision driving engineers at Qblox. This Dutch company builds control electronics for all qubit modalities. In this episode of The Quantum Spin by HKA, Niels Bultink, co-founder and CEO of Qblox, explains how he built a team that helps researchers and entrepreneurs get the highest performance out of quantum hardware. He also describes how the quantum ecosystem in the Netherlands grew out of strong academic [...]

Finland-based IQM Quantum Computers will deploy Poland’s first superconducting quantum computer at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST) in Q2 2025. The installation of the 5-qubit IQM Spark system marks a pivotal step in expanding Poland’s quantum computing infrastructure and research capacity. The deployment positions Poland as a new entrant in the global landscape of quantum-ready nations. As the first of its kind in the country and the broader Eastern European region, the Spark system uses low-temperature superconducting qubit technology and delivers a full-stack quantum computing experience. Professor Wojciech Bożejko of WUST remarks. “This system will provide students with [...]

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) and Riverlane have announced the development of the UK’s first quantum error corrected (QEC) testbed, to be installed in a commercial data centre and connected to high-performance computing (HPC). Funded through the UK’s Quantum Missions Pilot programme, the system is scheduled to go live by March 2026. It will support the UK Government’s Mission 1 objective of achieving a trillion error-free quantum operations (TeraQuop) by 2035. The testbed will feature OQC’s patented Dimon™ dual-rail superconducting qubit architecture, combined with Riverlane’s leakage error detection and decoding stack, to explore fault-tolerant quantum error correction under operational conditions. The integrated [...]

Oxford Instruments NanoScience has completed the installation of the first two ProteoxQX systems, the largest and most modular dilution refrigerators in its Proteox product line. Designed to overcome current cryogenic limitations, the ProteoxQX enables deployment of significantly more qubits by offering a fully accessible workspace over 3 meters tall and 1.5 meters wide. The installation reflects growing customer demand for flexible, scalable cooling solutions as quantum processors expand in complexity and physical footprint. A defining feature of the ProteoxQX is its modular architecture, incorporating four or six side-loading Secondary Inserts (SIs) that allow offline wiring and pre-characterization. This design enables rapid [...]

IonQ has signed a flagship distributor agreement with Toyota Tsusho Corporation, marking its formal entry into Japan’s quantum technology market. As a key member of the Toyota Group, Toyota Tsusho will promote IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum computing systems across a range of industries, leveraging its deep business development networks and decades of experience in scaling new technologies within Japan. The partnership has already yielded a local commercial agreement and aims to unlock growth opportunities in a national quantum ecosystem projected to reach $1–2 trillion globally by 2035. The collaboration will focus on bringing IonQ’s Forte systems and networking technologies to Japanese enterprises [...]

Aliro has announced the first live deployment of its Quantum-Powered Security™ solution, an entanglement-based quantum network designed to protect data, voice, and video communications from both classical and quantum threats. Leveraging the BBM92 quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol and real-time, nanosecond-precision key generation, the deployment marks a significant step toward physics-based security for enterprise and government networks. The system removes reliance on public key exchange by generating encryption keys locally at each endpoint, preventing interception and exposure to future quantum-powered decryption. This initial deployment consists of four nodes that are spaced 1 km or less from each other using hardware from [...]

D-Wave Quantum Inc. and Davidson Technologies have completed the physical assembly of a D-Wave Advantage2 annealing quantum system at Davidson’s Huntsville, Alabama headquarters. The installation, now entering final calibration and readiness testing, represents the first on-premises annealing quantum computer in the state. The system is intended to support secure quantum research focused on national defense use cases, including logistics optimization, space operations, and autonomous systems coordination. The Advantage2 installation stems from a multi-year agreement between the two companies and is housed in a secure facility built specifically to accommodate quantum systems running sensitive applications. The milestone was marked by a private [...]

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has introduced a new algorithm, Picasso, that significantly reduces the computational resources required to prepare data for hybrid quantum-classical computing systems. The algorithm, which employs advanced techniques in graph coloring and clique partitioning, addresses a longstanding bottleneck in quantum information preparation by cutting down the required quantum input data by approximately 85%. The work was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and is now publicly available on GitHub. Picasso targets the challenge of preparing quantum input—specifically, compressing large sets of Pauli strings that represent quantum operations. In simulations of hydrogen model [...]