Insider Brief Lawmakers and experts are urging Congress to double federal quantum technology funding in FY2026 to remain competitive with China. The CSIS Commission on U.S. Quantum Leadership recommends the increase, noting it would amount to just 0.5% of the discretionary budget. Concerns were raised that stagnant funding and federal Read more…
Guest Post By Mark M.J. Scott, President of Northern Pixels Inc. The odds are stacked against deep tech and advanced technology startups. Despite record levels of investment and a flood of breakthrough innovation, most of these ventures never reach sustainable scale. According to research from Startup Genome, around 90% of startups Read more…
Insider Brief A new study by Kipu Quantum and IBM demonstrates that a tailored quantum algorithm running on IBM’s 156-qubit processors can solve certain hard optimization problems faster than classical solvers like CPLEX and simulated annealing. The quantum method, called bias-field digitized counterdiabatic quantum optimization (BF-DCQO), achieved comparable or better Read more…
Insider Brief Keysight Technologies’ Quantum Control System has been selected to power the 256-qubit quantum computer developed by Fujitsu and RIKEN, advancing efforts toward fault-tolerant quantum computing in Japan. The control system enables precise execution and readout of quantum operations, serving as the critical link between classical computing commands and Read more…
Insider Brief: Norma signed an MOU with Rigetti Computing to launch an 84-qubit quantum cloud service, integrating Rigetti’s hardware with its Q Platform to offer cloud-based quantum program development and execution in South Korea. Rigetti will provide access to an 84-qubit quantum system, though the specific model was not disclosed; Read more…
Insider Brief China’s space-based cold atom gyroscope uses quantum interference of ultracold atoms to achieve high-precision motion sensing in orbit. The device leverages matter-wave interference from rubidium atoms to detect tiny changes in rotation and acceleration with exceptional sensitivity. Researchers optimized laser configurations to eliminate quantum decoherence effects, enabling stable Read more…
Insider Brief Major quantum computing companies, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, Rigetti, D-Wave, IonQ, Quantinuum, Intel, and Amazon, have outlined roadmaps with varying approaches and timelines to achieving quantum advantage. These roadmaps focus on different quantum architectures, such as superconducting qubits, trapped ions, topological qubits, and quantum annealing, with milestones ranging Read more…
Insider Brief Federal agencies are being directed to begin incorporating post-quantum cryptographic standards into procurement to protect sensitive data from future quantum-enabled decryption. The Biden and Trump administrations have both supported policies requiring agencies to inventory critical IT systems and begin transitioning to NIST-approved quantum-safe encryption protocols. Despite growing awareness Read more…
Insider Brief Researchers at Yale and Google Quantum AI demonstrated quantum error correction for higher-dimensional quantum systems that outperformed uncorrected versions, surpassing the break-even point. The team used GKP bosonic codes to encode qutrits and ququarts in superconducting cavities and optimized the protocol using reinforcement learning. The corrected logical states Read more…
Insider Brief A new study finds it is fundamentally impossible to create a universal protocol that improves the quality of entangled quantum states across all systems. Researchers from UChicago, UIUC, and Microsoft showed that no entanglement purification method can guarantee fidelity improvement under all conditions, even when considering all mathematically Read more…