May 2025

Insider Brief: Oracle and seQure, an Entanglement company, have launched Ground-Truth on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), making the previously on-premise cybersecurity and observability platform available across public, government, sovereign, and dedicated cloud regions. Ground-Truth uses AI, machine learning, and quantum-inspired algorithms to deliver real-time threat detection with ultra-low false positive Read more…

Insider Brief Fortaegis has developed a chip-based cybersecurity system that uses the physical randomness of silicon to secure communications, offering speed and resilience against future quantum computer attacks. The technology avoids both post-quantum cryptography’s heavy computational demands and quantum key distribution’s fragile optics by generating cryptographic keys from unique, unclonable Read more…

Insider Brief: IQM will open a new office in Seoul in June 2025 to strengthen collaborations with South Korea’s research institutions, HPC centers, and enterprises, following the deployment of its first quantum system at Chungbuk National University. Youngsim Kim has been appointed Country Manager for South Korea, bringing over a Read more…

Insider Brief Quantinuum has achieved a Quantum Volume of 8,388,608 on its H2 system, completing a five-year goal to increase the metric tenfold annually. Quantum Volume, developed by IBM, measures a quantum computer’s usable performance by combining qubit count, connectivity, error rates, and coherence time. Quantinuum claims the highest published Read more…

Insider Brief Researchers at UC Berkeley have proposed a quantum algorithm that could significantly speed up sampling from complex probability distributions, a key task in scientific computing. The algorithm offers a provable quantum speedup by directly constructing quantum states that encode difficult-to-simulate distributions, avoiding common bottlenecks in classical methods. Initial Read more…

Insider Brief BlackRock has updated its iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) prospectus to include detailed warnings about the potential security risks quantum computing could pose to Bitcoin. The revised filing outlines how advances in quantum systems could undermine Bitcoin’s cryptography and notes that implementing defenses would require broad consensus across the Read more…

Insider Brief Infleqtion and JPMorgan Chase have released an open-source software library, qLDPC, that significantly reduces the number of physical qubits needed for quantum error correction. The library enables 10-100x reductions in hardware requirements for fault-tolerant quantum computing, addressing a key bottleneck in scaling quantum systems. Designed for Infleqtion’s neutral Read more…

Insider Brief Kvantify, a Danish quantum software company focused on drug discovery, is the first to use the AI supercomputer Gefion to simulate quantum computers at scale. By leveraging Gefion’s GPU-accelerated infrastructure, Kvantify can model complex molecular systems using proprietary algorithms optimized for chemistry and enzyme design. The collaboration reflects Read more…

Insider Brief QuantWare has partnered with Q-CTRL to integrate autonomous calibration software into its QPUs, enabling faster and more reliable quantum system deployment. The integration of Q-CTRL’s Boulder Opal Scale Up tool addresses the complexity of manually tuning QPU control parameters, reducing calibration time from days to hours. The collaboration Read more…

Insider Brief Eli Lilly has signed a research and licensing agreement with Creyon Bio worth up to $1 billion to develop RNA-targeted therapies using AI and quantum chemistry, according to Drug Target Review. Creyon’s platform uses quantum-level modeling of molecular interactions to design oligonucleotide drugs more efficiently than traditional trial-and-error Read more…