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Insider Brief Quantum B secured a European patent covering its Quantum Conference Key Agreement protocol for reaching consensus in distributed systems. The protocol uses quantum-entangled states and correlated measurement results to help independent network nodes agree on shared data. Quantum B said it is continuing to develop the protocol alongside post-quantum and quantum-security technologies, including … Read more

Insider Brief NSF and UKRI are jointly investing more than $10 million across eight research projects exploring quantum information science in chemical systems. The projects will receive $5 million from NSF and £3.7 million from UKRI’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and will be co-led by scientists in the U.S. and UK. The … Read more

How two research teams and a London based quantum hardware company are betting nanoscale gold can crack the stability-scalability problem that has stalled every other qubit platform. Insider Brief Delta Gold Technologies is betting on nanoscale gold as a new qubit platform, running two parallel research programs — with Penn State and the University of … Read more

Insider Brief IonQ, ORNL, NVIDIA and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville demonstrated a generative AI method that directly generates quantum optimization circuits, replacing iterative parameter tuning. In benchmark experiments, the generative approach maintained circuit-generation time at about 28 seconds across tested problem sizes, while the prior method increased from about 34 seconds on four qubits … Read more

Insider Brief Quobly has demonstrated qubit readout, single-qubit gates and two-qubit gates on a single QSOI® chip fabricated through STMicroelectronics’ commercial 300 mm FD-SOI manufacturing process. The results provide an initial validation of Quobly’s technology transfer into an industrial semiconductor manufacturing environment and its approach to repeatable quantum processor fabrication. Quobly is using the results … Read more

Insider Brief Matter Venture Partners has closed its second fund at $450 million to back early-stage HardTech startups across areas including semiconductors, robotics, AI infrastructure, quantum computing and advanced manufacturing. The fund follows Matter’s 2023 launch and will draw on a network of strategic limited partners including ASML, TSMC, Quanta Computer, Nitto Denko and the … Read more

Insider Brief Planckian has been selected for Phase 1 of the EuroHPC Quantum Grand Challenge, alongside 12 other companies chosen from 27 eligible proposals across Europe. The Italian company’s SQALE project will develop a technical and financial roadmap for scaling its quantum computing architecture toward industrial-scale fault-tolerant systems. Phase 1 runs for four months, with … Read more

Insider Brief IBM researchers combined quantum error detection with error mitigation in an experiment that reduced the estimated sampling overhead by as much as 63 times compared with mitigation alone. The approach uses error-detecting checks to discard runs with identifiable faults, then applies probabilistic error cancellation to errors that escape detection. The results suggest error … Read more

Insider Brief Anderon, an IBM company, has finalized a $1 billion CHIPS and Science Act award with the U.S. Department of Commerce to support R&D for quantum wafer manufacturing. The Albany, New York-based company operates a 300-millimeter pure-play quantum wafer foundry backed by an additional $1 billion investment from IBM. Anderon has begun running its … Read more

Insider Brief The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has inaugurated a Quantum Nanofabrication Area at the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM), described as Spain’s largest research facility of its kind. The facility received more than €6 million in funding through Spain’s Complementary Plan for Quantum Communications and the PERTE Chip program to expand nanofabrication … Read more