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SandboxAQ, a company delivering solutions at the intersection of AI and quantum techniques, has announced a five-year agreement with the Department of War (DoW) Chief Information Officer (CIO) to accelerate the discovery and inventory of cryptographic assets across the department's environment. This effort is a foundational step in the DoW’s managed transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and supports overall cyber readiness against advanced threats. The DoW CIO will utilize SandboxAQ’s AQtive Guard platform for comprehensive, automated cryptographic discovery and inventory (ACDI). The platform provides continuous visibility into cryptographic assets, dependencies, and vulnerabilities, enabling the department to anticipate and counter emerging threats, [...]

Vanderbilt University and EPB of Chattanooga have announced the establishment of the Institute for Quantum Innovation, a new center for research, innovation, and graduate-level education in quantum science and technology. The initiative aims to position Chattanooga and the state of Tennessee as a national hub for advancing the quantum economy and addressing critical national priorities. The Institute will accelerate discoveries by combining Vanderbilt University’s quantum nanophotonics and research programs with collaborative access to the EPB Quantum Center. The EPB Quantum Center is noted as the nation’s first facility to provide commercial access to both a trapped-ion quantum computer and a photonics-based [...]

Quantum Art, an Israeli developer of full-stack quantum computers based on trapped-ion qubits, has closed a $100 million Series A funding round. The investment brings the company's total funding to date to $124 million and is intended to accelerate its path toward commercialization and achieving quantum advantage. The highly successful round was led by Bedford Ridge Capital, with participation from new investors including Battery Ventures, Destra Investments, Lumir Growth Partners, Disruptive AI, Harel Insurance, Karen W. Davidson, GTV, Yasmin Lukatz, Corner Capital, and Qbeat Ventures. Existing investors, including seed round leader Amiti Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Entrée Capital, and the [...]

Nu Quantum, a UK-based company specializing in distributed quantum computing, has closed an oversubscribed $60 million Series A funding round. The funding is reported to be the largest ever raised by a pure-play quantum networking company and the largest quantum Series A in the UK to date. The investment round was led by National Grid Partners, with participation from new investors Gresham House Ventures and Morpheus Ventures. The round also included continued support from existing investors: Amadeus Capital Partners, IQ Capital, Ahren Capital, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, East Innovate, NSSIF (National Security Strategic Investment Fund), and Sumitomo (Presidio Ventures). The capital will accelerate the development and [...]

QUDORA Technologies, a German developer of trapped-ion quantum computers, has announced the integration of QC Design’s Plaquette software into its R&D workflow. Plaquette is a quantum design-automation platform built to help hardware teams engineer scalable fault-tolerant architectures. The collaboration is designed to accelerate QUDORA’s path toward practical fault tolerance by allowing the company to rigorously simulate, analyze, and optimize Quantum Error Correction (QEC) routines within its unique architecture. QUDORA’s proprietary Near Field Quantum Control (NFQC) technology replaces bulky laser systems with on-chip microwave electronics, manufactured using advanced semiconductor processes to unlock mass manufacturability and high-density control of qubits. Integrating Plaquette provides [...]

QUDORA Technologies, a German developer and system integrator of trapped-ion quantum computers, has launched Qamelion, an advanced quantum computing emulator designed to help developers build and validate algorithms against realistic and evolving hardware conditions. Qamelion addresses the challenge of bridging the gap between abstract quantum code and the imperfections of real hardware. The emulator features a fine-tunable adaptive noise model that accurately mirrors the characteristics of QUDORA’s current and upcoming trapped-ion quantum computers. By adjusting the noise settings, developers can smoothly transition and validate their algorithms for future, next-generation architectures. The ability to accurately model noise and hardware evolution is critical [...]

The XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition, a $5 million global challenge backed by Google Quantum AI and the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), has announced the selection of seven Finalist teams. The Finalists were chosen from 133 submissions worldwide after a rigorous evaluation focused on algorithmic innovation, solid resource reasoning, and credible pathways toward achieving quantum advantage. The competition, launched in March 2024, challenges teams to develop quantum computing algorithms ready for deployment that can help solve real-world problems aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The seven finalists were selected from 20 semifinalists, reflecting a field moving from conceptual [...]

QuantWare has announced a major scaling breakthrough with the debut of VIO-40K™, a new generation of its VIO™ 3D scaling architecture for superconducting Quantum Processor Units (QPUs). The technology is designed to enable the creation of QPUs with 10 KiloQubits (10,000 qubits), which the company states is 100× larger than anything currently available in the industry. The current quantum industry has faced scaling bottlenecks in hardware, limiting maximum QPU sizes to around 100 qubits per chip. QuantWare’s VIO 3D architecture solves this issue by delivering signals directly to qubits in a three-dimensional stack of chiplet modules connected via ultra-high-fidelity chip-to-chip connections. [...]

Horizon Quantum Computing Pte. Ltd. has announced the debut of Beryllium, a new hardware-agnostic, high-level, object-oriented language for programming quantum computers. The language is designed to raise the level of abstraction for developers, making quantum software development more accessible to programmers who do not possess deep quantum expertise. Beryllium is the third of four planned abstraction layers for Horizon Quantum’s software stack. Its object-oriented structure allows developers to build complex, high-level structures by reusing and extending simpler classical and quantum components. This approach shifts the developer's focus from managing low-level processing details and qubits to managing the information structure and transformation. [...]

F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) and NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, have announced an expanded strategic collaboration to enhance performance for AI workloads while simultaneously integrating Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) readiness for data security. The joint solution aims to address the enterprise need to scale massive AI/ML data transfers securely and protect sensitive data against the future threat of quantum decryption. The combined offering pairs the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) with NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure, specifically targeting high-performance throughput, resiliency, and secure delivery of AI/ML workflows spanning NetApp’s enterprise-grade S3 storage architectures. The security element of the collaboration focuses on [...]