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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. September 21, 2026QNu Labs Launches QShield 2.0 to Drive India’s National Cryptographic Assessment & Assurance FrameworkQNu Labs has launched QShield 2.0, a sovereign, full-stack post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and crypto-agility platform, to drive [...]

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) Governing Board has officially approved Decision No. 31/2026, selecting 13 European quantum computing startups under the Quantum Grand Challenge call (HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-QGC-02). The selected companies receive Phase 1 Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funding as a preliminary milestone to establish technical proof-of-concepts, creating a direct pathway to unlock up to €30 million each in venture debt financing through the European Investment Bank (EIB) under Phase 2. [ EuroHPC JU Quantum Grand Challenge Main List Winners ]Startup & Project AcronymCountry & DurationHardware Modality & Focus Area• Alice & Bob (CAT-DRIVE)• France (4 Months)• Cat Qubits / Superconducting [...]

June 30, 2026Crédit Agricole CIB and Pasqal Execute Strategic Production Roadmap for Neutral Atom Quantum Finance DeploysCrédit Agricole CIB and Pasqal have partnered to integrate quantum processing units into banking operations by 2028, moving from exploratory research to industrialization. This multi-year roadmap involves a three-tiered deployment strategy, beginning with quantum-inspired algorithms on existing infrastructure, progressing to real-world validation on Pasqal’s hardware, and culminating in a hybrid integration of HPC and quantum coprocessors. The initiative aims to optimize capital reserve consumption and risk-weighted assets, supported by Pasqal’s significant private funding and impending Nasdaq listing, facilitating large-scale manufacturing and deployment for enterprise clients. [...]

Why Startup Storytelling is a Good Investment Overview How do you make your quantum startup stand out in an industry where every company name starts with the letter Q? One powerful way to do that is to tell the stories of the people building the technology. Christopher Godfree, Commercial Director at Across the Pond, has worked with Ai executives, robotics experts and Google’s Quantum Team to explain how their work will change the world. In this episode of The Quantum Spin by HKA, Christopher and host Veronica Combs discuss how storytelling can derisk deep tech investments and why it’s important to [...]

Over time the probability of measuring the correct result decreases. As in this illustrative example, the error correctionis "beyond breakeven" when the logical qubit decays more slowly than the best-performing constituent physical qubit. Researchers at Alice & Bob have published a white paper that proposes five criteria to benchmark logical qubit claims. Here is a summary of their proposal. The quantum computing industry's primary focus has shifted from Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) engineering toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC). However, the term "logical qubit" is frequently used inconsistently across academic literature and commercial press releases, complicating standard benchmarking efforts. To provide investors, [...]

By Doug Finke I attended the third convening of a Quantum California event last week at the University of California, San Diego. Two previous convenings were held: one at the University of California, Berkeley in November 2025 and the other at the University of California, Santa Barbara in March of this year. We have been following the quantum scene in California since May of 2016, starting with our article titled Northern versus Southern California – Who’s More Quantum? While some elements of that original article may be out of date, a lot still holds true. It is important to understand that [...]

Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: HQ) has reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026. This period marks a transformative era for the Singapore-based company, featuring the successful completion of its SPAC merger and its debut on the Nasdaq. Because the company transitioned to a public entity on March 19, 2026, the financial history provided in the table below reflects the recasted results of Horizon Quantum Computing Pte. Ltd. for the prior year and the new holding company for the current quarter. Amounts in $MQ1'2026Q1'2025% ChangeRevenue$0.00$0.00—Operating Expenses$6.50$4.72+37.7%Operating Loss($6.50)($4.72)+37.7%Net Loss($3.56)($4.82)-26.1%Cash and Cash Equivalents$96.60$2.97+3,152.5% Financial and Strategic Milestone: The [...]

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 [...]