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A Quantum Guide for the Fortune 500 Overview What does it take to persuade the biggest companies in the world to start exploring quantum technology? Twenty years in deep tech consulting is a great place to start. Jean-François Bobier is a partner and director at the Boston Consulting Group in Paris. He uses his expertise in identifying use cases, endless curiosity and computer science background to help Fortune 500 executives understand the quantum world. In this episode of “The Quantum Spin by HKA,” host Veronica Combs discusses story telling and technology with Jean-François. 00:00 Introduction to Quantum Spin Podcast00:36 Interview with [...]

Théau Peronnin, CEO and co-founder of Alice and Bob, a company making fault-tolerant quantum computers using cat qubits is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Theau and Yuval talk about what cat qubits are, why they protect against bit flip errors, the kind of software that will be required to take advantage of these new machines, and much more. Transcript Yuval Boger: Hello Théau, and thank you for joining me today. Théau Peronnin: Hi Yuval. Yuval: So who are you, and what do you do? Théau: So I'm Théau Peronnin. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Alice & Bob. And at Alice & [...]

The following is an executive summary of a 44 page report written by GQI's Chief Analyst, Dr. David Shaw. To obtain the full report, contact GQI at info@global-qi.com. For years, both the cybersecurity and quantum communities have focused on RSA-2048 as the lead benchmark by which to assess the timeline for the threat posed by future large scale quantum computers to conventional public key cryptography. A notion often summarized as ‘Q-day’. Though this originally seemed justified, it now looks to be materially misguided.  Recent work from Google, Oratomic and Alice & Bob demonstrates how algorithmic and architectural advances have rendered ECC-256, [...]

Comparison of logical quantum resources (number of logical qubits and Toffoli gates) required to break 256-bit ECDLP for the secp256k1 curve, as reported by various prior works. Credit: Google Quantum AI whitepaper. By Mohamed Abdel-Kareem Recent technical disclosures from Google Quantum AI and the newly emerged Oratomic have provided updated resource estimates for executing Shor’s algorithm against the secp256k1 elliptic curve. secp256k1 is a specialized cryptographic algorithm best known for powering Bitcoin’s public-key cryptography and digital signatures. These findings indicate a reduction in the physical and logical requirements for a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC) to compromise the digital signature schemes [...]

Recent news items published within the last 6 months on quantum computing developments are listed below. Click on the hyperlinked item to go to the press release or news article for more details. For older news items published in 2025 click here, for 2024 click here, for 2023 click here, for 2022 click here, for 2021 click here, for 2020 click here, for 2019 click here, for 2018 click here, and for items published in 2015-2017, click here. April 30, 2026Groove Quantum Secures €16 Million ($18.7M USD) to Scale Germanium Spin-Qubits; Debuts 18-Qubit ProcessorGroove Quantum, a spin-out from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has secured €16 million ($18.7M USD) in [...]

The European Union has allocated €25 million ($29.5 million USD) to the SUPREME consortium, with an equivalent amount provided by national funding agencies for a total investment of €50 million ($59 million USD). Coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the initiative is designed to industrialize superconducting quantum technologies over a three-and-a-half-year phase beginning in early 2026. The project is aligned with the European Quantum and European Chips Act objectives to establish domestic fabrication capabilities and technological sovereignty. The technical roadmap focuses on advancing superconducting quantum devices toward Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 and Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) 6. Research [...]

DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), a program dedicated to a rigorous verification and validation process for achieving utility-scale quantum computing by 2033, has advanced, with eleven companies now entering the year-long Stage B. The ultimate goal is to definitively prove whether a quantum computing approach can deliver computational value that exceeds its cost within the next eight years. Stage B Focus: R&D Blueprint for Utility-Scale QC The newly promoted teams, following a six-month characterization of their concepts in Stage A, will now focus on developing detailed R&D plans in Stage B. This phase requires identifying and mitigating associated technical risks, as [...]

NVIDIA has launched NVQLink, an open system architecture for tightly coupling GPU computing with quantum processors to build accelerated quantum supercomputers. The platform is designed to provide the demanding low-latency, high-throughput interconnect required for the complex control algorithms of large-scale quantum computing and Quantum Error Correction (QEC). The development of NVQLink was guided by researchers from leading supercomputing centers at nine U.S. national laboratories, including Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermi Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. NVQLink is integrated with the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform and supports 17 Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) builders and five control system providers. The interconnect enables researchers and [...]

Recent news items published within the last 6 months on quantum computing developments are listed below. Click on the hyperlinked item to go to the press release or news article for more details. For older news items published in 2024 click here, for 2023 click here, for 2022 click here, for 2021 click here, for 2020 click here, for 2019 click here, for 2018 click here, and for items published in 2015-2017, click here. December 30, 2025USTC’s Zuchongzhi 3.2 Achieves Below-Threshold QEC MilestoneResearchers at USTC have achieved a major milestone in fault-tolerant computing with the Zuchongzhi 3.2 processor, demonstrating quantum error correction (QEC) below the surface code threshold. Published [...]

Turning Quantum Potential into Strategic Plans Overview Government, business and innovation have always been intertwined and quantum tech is no exception. In this episode of The Quantum Spin by HKA, Petra Soderling, CEO of Petra Soderling and Company, explains how government investments in deep tech pay off for private companies that commercialize the inventions. Petra also shares the details of her unique career, from working at Nokia to launching her own startups to drafting quantum strategies for the EU. This episode covers the intricacies of quantum policy, the importance of standards in technology, and the role of government in fostering innovation. [...]