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Insider Brief Roadrunner Venture Studios and New Mexico opened a 35,000-square-foot quantum lab in Albuquerque to give startups access to specialized equipment, researchers and commercialization support. Initial participants include Diraq, IonQ, QBoltz, Mesa Quantum, Quantum Machines, QuEra Computing, Photon Queue and Conductor Quantum. Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories will help operate an on-site demonstration … Read more

Insider Brief Xanadu and Bluefors announced a multi-million-dollar partnership to develop a cryogenic prototype for utility-scale quantum computing (USQC). The companies aim to develop modular cryogenic infrastructure that could support Xanadu’s planned USQC data center and future quantum data centers. Xanadu and Bluefors plan to use the prototype’s results to develop a mass-manufacturable cryogenic module … Read more

Insider Brief BTQ Technologies signed a three-year agreement with Kaia DLT Foundation to deploy its Quantum Secure Stablecoin Network across the Kaia blockchain ecosystem. The agreement marks QSSN’s first recurring commercial deployment, with BTQ receiving a share of secured transaction fees and expecting six-figure U.S. dollar revenue in the first year. The deployment is designed … Read more

Insider Brief Cloudflare announced plans to establish a public Certificate Authority that will issue traditional TLS certificates and post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs). The company plans to acquire publicly trusted Root CA key material from GlobalSign and has applied to join the Chrome, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla root programs. Cloudflare expects classical certificate issuance to … Read more

Insider Brief Project Eleven acquired Riva Labs to expand its post-quantum cryptography, wallet, MPC, account abstraction, and blockchain infrastructure capabilities. Riva Labs brings technology and intellectual property from work on Ethereum and other public blockchains, including post-quantum signatures and hardware signing. The Riva team will join Project Eleven’s research and product efforts focused on post-quantum … Read more

The Insider Brief: A quantum computer, tuned with maple syrup. Institut quantique’s Ghislain Lefebvre tells The Quantum Kid’s “Kai Asks” that maple syrup, transparent tape, and agave syrup are genuinely used to manipulate qubits. Your sunglasses are already doing quantum physics. Lefebvre draws a direct line between polarized sunglasses and quantum polarization, turning an everyday … Read more

Insider Brief The United States and Europe need closer cooperation on quantum supply chains, infrastructure and standards to turn their research strengths into commercial capabilities, according to QED-C Deputy Director Jonathan Felbinger. Europe’s larger quantum workforce and greater number of quantum-focused companies complement U.S. strength in private investment, according to industry figures cited by Felbinger … Read more

Insider Brief Infleqtion and Riverlane signed an MOU to explore integrating Riverlane’s real-time quantum error correction technology with Infleqtion’s neutral-atom quantum computing platform and software stack. The companies will evaluate Riverlane’s Deltaflow and Deltakit tools alongside Infleqtion’s Superstaq compiler and open-source qLDPC software library. The partnership includes plans for a technical workshop and potential demonstrators … Read more

Insider Brief Royal Bank of Canada has expanded its quantum strategy with the appointment of a Director of Quantum, two multi-year university partnerships and a quantum-safe security program. Dr. Elizabeth Iwasawa will lead RBC’s quantum research and development team, while partnerships with the University of Waterloo and University of Toronto will support research and quantum … Read more

Insider Brief Terra Quantum and Empa developed LP-FNO, a Fourier Neural Operator model that predicts three-dimensional temperature fields and melt-pool boundaries from laser welding parameters. The model was trained on high-fidelity simulations of Ti-6Al-4V across laser powers of 40–190 watts and scan speeds of 0.1–1 meter per second. Once trained, LP-FNO generates full 3D predictions … Read more