Insider Brief: In collaboration with D-Wave and QuantumBasel, Hermes Germany is testing quantum annealing to optimize delivery logistics. This approach encodes logistics challenges into a quantum system, simultaneously evaluating solutions to efficiently manage routing, scheduling, and constraints. The project compares quantum and classical systems using key metrics like route length, Read more…
Insider Brief Rigetti Computing launched its flagship 84-qubit Ankaa-3 quantum computer, featuring a major hardware redesign and achieving significant milestones, including a 99.0% median iSWAP gate fidelity and 99.5% median fSim gate fidelity. The Ankaa-3 system, available on Rigetti’s Quantum Cloud Services platform and soon on Amazon Braket and Microsoft Read more…
Quantum hype or an aware quantum workforce? Quantum experiment or quantum use case? AI or Quantum AI? Over the past year, the quantum industry has matured, possibly not completely matured, but quantum has moved rapidly from a lab curiosity and marketing tagline for new products — like Powerball Quantum Dishwasher Read more…
Insider Brief Researchers successfully implemented the color code, an alternative quantum error correction method, on superconducting qubits that could one day reduce logical errors and perform efficient operations with fewer resources than the surface code. The study achieved a 1.56-fold reduction in logical error rates, fidelities exceeding 99% for magic Read more…
Insider Brief: The Australian Government’s Critical Technologies Challenge Program offers up to AU$5 million (approximately $3.1 million) in funding to accelerate the commercialization of quantum technologies through two-stage grants for feasibility and demonstrator projects. The program focuses on addressing national challenges, including enhancing biosecurity, improving healthcare for First Nations peoples, Read more…
Insider Brief A recent study published in Nature demonstrates a more efficient method for using quantum computers to simulate materials, potentially reducing computational resource requirements and aiding industries like energy, manufacturing, and technology. The research introduces the use of pseudopotentials to simplify simulations of atomic core interactions, improving accuracy while Read more…
“The Superposition Guy’s Podcast”, hosted by Yuval Boger, Chief Commercial Officer at QuEra Computing Yuval Boger interviews Jannes Stubbeman, co-founder and CEO of Aqora, a platform aimed at creating a “Kaggle for Quantum” by providing an operating system for both in-person and online hackathons in the quantum computing space. Jannes Read more…
2024 saw some dramatic ups, some depressing downs — and then more ups and downs — for the quantum technology industry. What will 2025 hold for quantum investments? Glad you asked. Some of the industry’s leading venture capital and investments firms share their predictions for the near-term for this emerging, Read more…
Insider Brief: Nokia and Turkcell successfully demonstrated quantum-safe IPsec cryptography for mobile subscribers as a first deployment of its kind to safeguard mobile networks against quantum-era threats. The integration of quantum-safe cryptography into Turkcell’s transport network uses Nokia’s IPsec Security Gateway to ensure secure communication by encrypting data packets at Read more…
Insider Brief Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) sold 18.4 million D-Wave shares for $78.8 million during a rally in the company’s stock, according to Barron’s. PSP reported the move was a typical portfolio risk management adjustment. Investor enthusiasm for quantum computing drove D-Wave Quantum’s stock from $1 to Read more…