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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 [...]

Classiq and Wolfram Research announced their selection to join the Open Quantum Institute (OQI), an initiative hosted at CERN and established by the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) with support from UBS. As part of the program, the two organizations will collaborate on applying hybrid quantum-classical methods to solve the Unit Commitment Problem (UCP), a fundamental optimization challenge in managing modern power grids. Their research aims to improve energy efficiency and grid stability through scalable quantum-enhanced solutions. The collaboration will focus on developing hybrid workflows that integrate quantum software synthesis and advanced mathematical modeling to enhance the performance of electrical [...]

TreQ, alongside Rigetti, Oxford Ionics, Q-CTRL, and Qruise, has been awarded £1.65 million ($2.2 million USD) from Innovate UK to develop an Open Architecture Quantum (OAQ) Testbed. The grant forms part of the Quantum Missions Pilot competition under the UK’s National Quantum Strategy, supporting projects that address technological barriers to quantum technology commercialization. Coordinated by TreQ, the consortium aims to design and operate a modular and extensible quantum system that integrates multiple processors, control systems, and software stacks to enable dynamic evaluation of quantum components and workflows. The OAQ Testbed will initially support eight different system configurations by combining two quantum [...]

Rigetti Computing, Inc., in collaboration with Riverlane and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), has been selected as one of the winners of Innovate UK’s Quantum Missions pilot competition. The £3.5 million ($4.7 million USD) Rigetti-led consortium will leverage Rigetti’s superconducting quantum computer hosted at the NQCC to benchmark and enhance quantum error correction (QEC) capabilities, a critical step toward achieving universal, fault-tolerant quantum computing. As part of the initiative, Rigetti will upgrade its UK-based quantum computer to a 36-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU) from the current 24 qubits and integrate its latest generation control system to enable low-latency interfacing with [...]

Keyfactor has unveiled major upgrades to its cryptographic solutions — Keyfactor Command, EJBCA, and Bouncy Castle — enhancing its product offerings to include post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and helping organizations prepare for NIST’s 2030–2035 deprecation timeline for classical encryption. The updates mark a clear shift from theoretical preparation to actionable execution as enterprises begin the long migration to quantum-safe systems. Preparing for the Inevitable With NIST setting 2030 as the year to begin phasing out traditional cryptographic algorithms, Keyfactor is enabling businesses to start that transition now. Its latest enhancements empower customers to inventory, automate, and test the deployment of hybrid and [...]

Fujitsu and RIKEN announced the development of a 256-qubit superconducting quantum computer at the RIKEN RQC-FUJITSU Collaboration Center, expanding on their previous 64-qubit system introduced in 2023 under Japan’s Quantum Leap Flagship Program (Q-LEAP). The new machine, designed to support broader applications in fields such as molecular analysis and error correction research, will become available to companies and research institutions globally in the first quarter of fiscal 2025 as part of Fujitsu and RIKEN’s hybrid quantum computing platform. This development marks a substantial increase in computational capabilities within the same platform, offering users an upgraded environment to advance quantum research and [...]

SandboxAQ has launched AQtive Guard, a new cybersecurity platform designed to protect against the rapidly growing threats posed by Non-Human Identities (NHIs)—autonomous AI agents increasingly used across enterprise environments. As AI agents exceed one billion in number, AQtive Guard offers real-time vulnerability detection, automated remediation, and full lifecycle management of cryptographic assets such as keys, certificates, and algorithms. Built on SandboxAQ’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), the platform features two core modules including Discover which provides accurate inventory of NHIs and cryptographic assets and Protect which orchestrates automated protection workflows and credential management. Key functions within these two core modules include the [...]