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Insider Brief California awarded $9.7 million to expand quantum workforce training, shared testing capabilities, regional coordination and venture support across Southern California. UCLA will receive about $7.6 million to lead the regional quantum network, while California State University San Marcos will receive approximately $2.1 million for education and training. The quantum funding is part of … Read more

Insider Brief As quantum technology matures into a commercial industry, companies increasingly require a legal layer to manage financing, acquisitions, public listings, intellectual property and government-backed projects. Paul, Weiss, Osler and Cooley accounted for about 65% of the publicly recorded lawyer involvement across nine prominent quantum hardware companies, according to Pirical. Quantum-related legal work now … Read more

Enterprises trying to feed PDFs, slides and scanned documents into AI pipelines keep running into the same wall: the tools either miss the structure — tables, charts, layout — or cost too much to run at scale.Cohere released Parse 5 on Thursday, positioning it on price-to-performance, not raw accuracy — the right cost-capability mix for … Read more

Insider Brief Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has approved an 8.5-acre Quantum and AI University campus in Amaravati to be established by NIELIT under MeitY. The ₹730.7 crore project will focus on quantum technologies, AI, semiconductors and other deep-tech fields, with programmes planned to begin in September 2026. The campus is expected to … Read more

Guest Post by Kyle Okamoto, President of Axe Compute. When people talk about quantum readiness, the conversation often moves quickly to the quantum computer itself. How many qubits will we need? When will fault-tolerant systems arrive? Which industries will find commercial applications first? Those questions matter, but I think there is another one worth asking: … Read more

Insider Brief Quantum computing hardware approaches vary widely, with superconducting, trapped-ion, photonic, neutral-atom, topological and annealing systems making different engineering trade-offs. Superconducting and trapped-ion systems are among the most commercially developed approaches, while neutral atoms and photonics are advancing toward larger-scale applications. Topological quantum computing remains experimental and contested, while quantum annealers target optimization problems … Read more

Insider Brief Pasqal has announced the nine-member Board of Directors for Pasqal Holding SA following the completion of its business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II. The board is chaired by Pasqal co-founder Alain Aspect and includes executives with experience across quantum technology, technology investment, telecommunications, finance and industrial companies. Pasqal Holding SA expects its … Read more

Insider Brief QuEra reported that Anthropic’s Claude developed software that can automatically restore a critical quantum computer laser system in seconds. The controller recovered the system in 695 of 700 timed trials across seven fault types and never falsely reported a successful recovery. QuEra said the approach could reduce the need for on-site specialists as … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers used entangled electrons in helium atoms to produce higher-energy X-rays beyond the limit predicted by standard theory, potentially opening a new approach to quantum sensing. Two correlated electrons returned to the same ion simultaneously and released their combined energy as a single X-ray photon, an effect observed for the first time. The … Read more

Insider Brief Pasqal completed its business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II and is expected to begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker “PSQL” on Aug. 28. The transaction provided Pasqal with approximately $360 million in cash to expand QPU manufacturing, advance its technology and scale commercial operations. Pasqal has seven neutral-atom quantum processing units … Read more