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IQM Quantum Computers Plc (Nasdaq: IQMX; Nasdaq Helsinki: IQMX.HE) has released its financial results for the first half (H1) and second quarter (Q2) ended June 30, 2026. This release marks IQM’s inaugural earnings report following its dual-listing milestone in July 2026 as the first European pure-play quantum computing company on Nasdaq and Nasdaq Helsinki. To support tracking alongside US peers, the table below displays the raw reported Euros (€) figures alongside their approximate United States Dollars (USD) equivalents based on an exchange rate of €1.00 = $1.15 USD. Amounts in €M (except per share)Q2 2026 (€)Q2 2026 (USD)Q2 2025 (€)H1 2026 [...]

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at the University of Maryland, and quantum networking firm Qunnect have successfully demonstrated long-distance polarization-entangled photon distribution across a live, partially aerial fiber-optic link. Detailed in a peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN, Vol. 18, Issue 8), the team transmitted entangled photons over 62 kilometers (38.5 miles) of commercial telecommunications fiber connecting NIST’s Gaithersburg campus to UMD in College Park, Maryland. Unlike buried subterranean fiber optic lines that remain thermal and mechanically isolated, aerial fiber suspended from utility poles experiences [...]

Quantum computing, networking, and sensing platform provider IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) has announced two strategic defense sector awards expanding its national security portfolio across quantum position, navigation, and timing (PNT) and commercial space intelligence. [ IonQ Federal & Defense Portfolio Expansion ] │ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ DARPA "It's About Time" Contract ($28M) NRO Radar Commercial Augmentation (RCA) • Deliver 125 Evergreen-05 Optical Atomic Clocks. • Commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data. • $15M Direct Capital Investment in Production. • Capella Subsidiary Space Intelligence Services. • Tactical 5-Liter Form Factor for Defense PNT. • Persistent All-Weather, Day/Night Earth Observation. DARPA Selects IonQ for [...]

Tel Aviv-based technology company Quantum X Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: QXL) has announced that its subsidiary, Nuclear Quantum, has developed a quantum circuit-based approach to model nuclear particle transport. The technology maps physical particle propagation and random-walk dynamics directly into a quantum computational framework, addressing long-standing computational bottlenecks in Monte Carlo simulations used across nuclear medicine, shielding design, and system optimization. The newly demonstrated framework encodes gamma-photon trajectory histories into quantum states and establishes the core quantum oracle necessary to interface with Grover-inspired amplitude amplification algorithms. Conventional particle transport simulations require extensive computational runtimes on classical high-performance computing (HPC) clusters due to [...]

Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI), industrial conglomerate Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, telecommunications provider True Corporation, Arise Ventures Group, the Quantum Technology Research Initiative Consortium (QTRic), and U.S.-based quantum software platform provider qBraid have officially launched Quantum Club Thailand. Headquartered at True Digital Park on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok, the national collaboration hub aims to establish Thailand as a regional leader in quantum technology and accelerate industrial adoption across Southeast Asia. The initiative establishes four strategic missions—human capital development, applied research, industrial adoption, and commercial innovation. To execute these goals, the hub is rolling out three initial [...]

Quantum cybersecurity platform provider enQase and quantum communications firm Light Rider Inc. have announced a strategic technology partnership to combine their software, hardware, and key distribution capabilities into unified quantum-resistant security architectures. Announced on August 4, 2026, the collaboration targets government, defense, critical infrastructure, and enterprise customers preparing for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transitions and "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" mitigation. The partnership integrates the enQase Platform—which includes a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module (Certificate #5346) and crypto-agile management layer—with Light Rider’s suite of quantum hardware and optical networking technologies. Light Rider’s portfolio encompasses its Quantum Light hardware, Light Rider Entropy Management System [...]

a, Schematic of a two dual-rail cavity qubit system. b, Diagram of the SWS gate sequence between two dual-rail cavity qubits. c, Schematic of photon population during the gate sequence for the four basis states. Quantum hardware developer D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) has published peer-reviewed research in Nature demonstrating a fast, high-fidelity two-qubit entangling gate for superconducting dual-rail cavity qubits. Titled "An entangling gate for dual-rail erasure qubits," the study validates a foundational milestone in D-Wave’s gate-model development strategy. Led by Chief Scientist Dr. Robert Schoelkopf, Chief Development Officer Dr. Trevor Lanting, and CEO Dr. Alan Baratz, the research addresses [...]

Israeli quantum startup Qarakal Quantum Ltd. has officially launched Pangaea, a modular, three-dimensional superconducting quantum computing architecture engineered to reduce the physical qubit requirements of fault-tolerant systems by an order of magnitude. Published in an arXiv pre-print titled "The Pangaea Architecture: Fault-Tolerant Heterogeneous Topological Codes via a Quantum Bus," the design resolves the long-standing routing bottleneck of two-dimensional lattice surgery by introducing an IP-protected quantum bus to mediate logical operations between physically separated 2D topological code patches. Rather than relying on direct physical adjacency, Pangaea uses an auxiliary gauge-code strip as its quantum bus. The bus reconstructs multi-qubit joint Pauli operators [...]

Quantum platform developer IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sandia National Laboratories to pursue the co-design of quantum information science (QIS) technologies for U.S. national security applications. Operating out of Sandia’s Quantum Demonstration Facility in New Mexico, the public-private partnership will align trapped-ion hardware development, silicon photonics integration, and software optimization with mission-relevant government use cases. The collaboration builds on a historical foundation between the two organizations: Sandia fabricated the original trapped-ion chips utilized in IonQ’s earliest quantum processing units (QPUs). Under the expanded scope of the MOU, IonQ’s hardware and application engineering teams will work [...]

Enschede, Netherlands-based hardware developer QuiX Quantum has announced the commercial availability of Alquor 2.0, the second generation of its rack-mountable quantum photonic processor platform. Built on silicon nitride (Si3​N4​) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), the programmable linear optical interferometer system is offered in 8-mode, 20-mode, and 32-mode configurations. The platform is designed to transition quantum optics, boson sampling, quantum communications, and optical information processing research from manual, free-space optical table setups to a stable, rack-mountable unit. Alquor 2.0 integrates directly into QuiX Quantum's Photonic Assembly Control Unit (PACU) architecture and features a 3U 19-inch chassis designed for laboratory, data center, and high-performance [...]