May 2025

Insider Brief Zurich Instruments and its parent company Rohde & Schwarz have been selected as key partners for Australia’s first National Quantum Computing Testbed Facility (NQCT), receiving nearly AU$6 million in funding under Queensland’s Quantum and Advanced Technologies Commercialisation Infrastructure Program. The NQCT will use superconducting qubit technology from QuantWare, Read more…

Insider Brief: IonQ and Einride announced a strategic partnership to develop quantum computing applications for optimizing autonomous and electric freight fleet operations. The collaboration targets complex routing and scheduling challenges that surpass the capabilities of classical computing, with a goal to boost efficiency, reliability, and sustainability in logistics. This partnership Read more…

Insider Brief: The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will launch Quantum for Good this July as a new track at the AI for Good Global Summit, designed to align quantum innovation with global development priorities. The initiative focuses on equity, access, and impact, working to scale real-world quantum use cases and Read more…

Insider Brief Microsoft has released early-access post-quantum cryptography (PQC) tools for Windows and Linux, allowing organizations to test quantum-resistant security ahead of emerging threats. The update introduces NIST-standardized algorithms ML-KEM and ML-DSA for key exchanges and digital signatures, with support integrated into Windows Insider builds and SymCrypt-OpenSSL 1.9.0 for Linux. Read more…

Insider Brief NordVPN has rolled out post-quantum encryption (PQE) support across all its VPN apps, expanding from an initial 2024 deployment on Linux to Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Android TV, and tvOS in 2025. The PQE upgrade integrates quantum-resistant algorithms into NordLynx, the company’s high-speed VPN protocol based on WireGuard, Read more…

Insider Brief Invest Qatar has signed a strategic agreement with Quantinuum to expand Qatar’s quantum computing ecosystem and accelerate local adoption of advanced quantum technologies. The partnership will provide Quantinuum with access to key stakeholders, research institutions, and national initiatives, while promoting education, training, and R&D collaboration in Qatar. Quantinuum Read more…

Insider Brief The Business Software Alliance is urging Congress to reauthorize and expand the National Quantum Initiative Act to keep the U.S. competitive in the global race to deploy quantum technologies. In a letter to lawmakers, BSA warned that other countries are moving beyond research toward commercialization and national security Read more…

Insider Brief D-Wave has launched its sixth-generation Advantage2 quantum computer, now generally available via cloud and on-premises deployment. The system features improvements in qubit connectivity, coherence, and energy efficiency to support industrial-scale optimization and AI tasks. Early users, including Japan Tobacco and Los Alamos National Laboratory, have applied prototypes to Read more…

Insider Brief: Taiwan’s National Center for High-Performance Computing is deploying a new AI supercomputer powered by NVIDIA hardware with over 8x the performance of the previous Taiwania 2 system. The system will accelerate research in quantum computing, climate modeling, and sovereign AI, supporting projects like Taiwan AI RAP and TAIDE Read more…

Insider Brief Quantum Light, an Oxford-affiliated startup developing next-generation quantum pigments, has closed a $1 million pre-seed round backed by Venrex, the Oxford Seed Fund, Light Ray Ventures, I2BF Global Ventures, and senior executives from Google and Meta. The company is commercializing color-changing nanomaterials based on quantum confinement principles, with Read more…