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D-Wave Quantum Inc. has appointed Kevan P. Krysler to its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. Krysler currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Carbon Robotics and brings over two decades of financial leadership experience from previous executive roles, including Chief Financial Officer of Everpure, Inc., and Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at VMware, Inc. His appointment supports D-Wave’s strategic growth objectives and corporate governance as the company scales its commercial adoption of annealing and gate-model quantum technologies. The full official release is available here. BTQ Technologies Corp. has appointed Dr. Michael Grace to its U.S. technical [...]

A map shows Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and Yale University — the three institutions hosting facilities that form a free-space optical (FSO) link. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SUNY) have demonstrated the first permanent free-space optical (FSO) quantum link in the United States. Operating between Stony Brook's Quantum Watchtower and Brookhaven's Quantum Lighthouse, the team transmitted single photons and entangled photon pairs through 13 miles (21 kilometers) of open atmosphere, adding a "wireless" leg to the nation's longest metropolitan quantum network. [ Long Island Free-Space Quantum Network Architecture ] [...]

Quantum software developer Quantum X Labs Inc. (Nasdaq: QXL) has announced new performance results from its AI-driven quantum error correction (QEC) decoder program. Testing its updated model against Google’s public surface-code experimental dataset, Quantum X Labs demonstrated improved decoding accuracy compared to standard matching-family baselines—including Google's published correlated-matching and PyMatching benchmark results for the same surface-code configuration. [ Quantum X Labs AI-QEC Decoder Architecture ] │ ┌──────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ Synthetic AI Training Pipeline Real-Hardware Syndrome Generalization • Trained Exclusively on Synthetic Samples. • Tested on Google Surface-Code Experimental Dataset. • Syndrome Info & Error Weighting Integration. • Outperforms PyMatching & Correlated-Matching. [...]

By Doug Finke Last year, we published an article titled Quantum SDKs are Dying, Long Live Quantum AI SDK describing how the classical computing concept of "Vibe Coding" is entering the quantum programming space. (Perhaps we should call it Vibe Qoding!) We continue to see this trend accelerate and believe it will profoundly impact the future use of quantum computing technology. Workforce development remains a major concern within the quantum community. The central question is simple: How can we train thousands of potential users to program large-scale quantum systems within a reasonable timeframe? At industry conferences, speakers often ask, "If we [...]

Canadian cybersecurity developer Crypto4A Technologies Inc. has received NIST FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validation for QASM™, the core cryptographic module integrated into its QxHSM™ hardware security module platform. Supporting the full suite of NIST-standardized Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms, the certification marks the first time a quantum-safe HSM has achieved Level 3 security validation under the updated FIPS 140-3 standard. [ Crypto4A Validated Hardware Security Architecture ] │ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ FIPS 140-3 Level 3 Validation NIST PQC Algorithm Support Root-of-Trust Applications • Independent NIST Certification. • ML-KEM (FIPS 203 Key Exchange). • Post-Quantum PKI & Signing. • Physical Tamper Response. [...]

Credit: Caltech/Gyohei Nomura A physics collaboration led by Caltech—combining the experimental laboratory of Professor Manuel Endres and the theoretical group of Professor Jason Alicea, alongside theorists from Université Paris-Saclay and the Technical University of Munich—has performed the first direct experimental measurement of finite-size energy excitation spectra predicted by 2D Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). Detailed in Nature ("Observation of conformal field theory spectra in a quantum simulator"), the team used an analog neutral-atom quantum simulator to measure the low-energy level ratios ("rungs of the energy ladder") predicted by John Cardy’s 40-year-old CFT framework at quantum phase transitions. [ Caltech Neutral-Atom CFT Spectroscopy [...]

Superconducting quantum hardware developer Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI) has reorganized its operating structure to separate commercial system deployments from core quantum processor R&D. The company has established a dedicated Systems Delivery organization to manage manufacturing operations, commercial sales, and customer-facing engineering, while consolidating all hardware engineering and chiplet development into a streamlined Technology organization. [ Rigetti Reorganized Operational Architecture ] │ ┌──────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ Systems Delivery & Operations Technology & Hardware Engineering • Manufacturing Operations & Fab-1 Delivery. • Quantum Processor Architecture & Chiplet Design. • On-Premises System Install & Customer Support. • Multi-Chip Interconnects (IMCs) & Cryo-RF. • Commercial [...]

University of Wisconsin-Madison spinout Dirac Labs Inc. has raised $1.8 million USD in pre-seed funding to prototype and field-test its diamond-based quantum positioning sensors. Led by venture firm TitletownTech (a joint initiative of Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers), the round included participation from Automotive Ventures, Riceberg Ventures, quantumEDGE Ventures, gradCapital, and angel investors Balaji Srinivasan and Jude Gomila. [ Dirac Labs Quantum Navigation Architecture ] │ ┌───────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ Diamond NV-Center Sensors AI Signal Processing & Fusion Semiconductor Foundry Integration • Sub-Surface Magnetic Mapping. • Real-Time Signal Filtering. • Golf-Ball Sized NVD-4 Sensors. • Un-Jammable & Un-Spoofable. • Passive [...]

European quantum software company Superpositions has entered into a strategic educational partnership with the European Business Institute of Luxembourg (EBU) to power its Q-Ready academic initiative. Under the agreement, EBU is incorporating quantum computing and hybrid quantum-classical algorithms into its business school curriculum, providing students with direct hands-on access to the Superpositions Studio platform. [ EBU Q-Ready & Superpositions Platform Architecture ] │ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ Curriculum Integration Automated Workflow Engine Multi-Hardware Backends • Dedicated Business Q-Courses. • Natural-Language Problem Input. • IBM Quantum Processors. • Embedded Modules in BBA/MBA. • Classical vs. Quantum Benchmarking. • IonQ Trapped-Ion QPUs. • [...]

Quantum enablement company FormationQ and the STFC Hartree Centre—part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)—have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the commercial adoption of quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing (HPC) across UK industry, public sector, and research organizations. [ FormationQ & STFC Hartree Centre Partnership Stack ] │ ┌───────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ Industry Verticals Targeted Technical & Workforce Objectives Ecosystem Integration • Healthcare & Life Sciences. • Hybrid Quantum-AI-HPC Workflows. • STFC / UKRI Hartree Infrastructure. • Manufacturing & Logistics. • Bridging Quantum Talent Gaps. • University & Academic [...]