Insider Brief Fermilab is joining Microsoft Quantum as an initial partner in Microsoft’s quantum hardware makerspace at its new quantum research center in the University of Maryland’s Discovery District. Fermilab and Microsoft will work to expand the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit (QICK), an open-source toolkit for controlling and reading out quantum hardware. The collaboration will … Read more
Insider Brief University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers designed a theoretical quantum-emitter nanostructure that could supply the nonlinear operations needed for energy-efficient optical neural networks. Simulations indicated the approach could reduce the power needed for optical nonlinearity by seven orders of magnitude compared with conventional optical materials. The work remains computational, but the researchers said advances in … Read more
Insider Brief QuEra Computing will open an office in Discovery District Maryland as part of Maryland’s Capital of Quantum initiative. The move builds on QuEra’s agreement with the University of Maryland’s National Quantum Laboratory, giving researchers cloud access to its neutral-atom systems, including the 256-qubit Aquila platform. QuEra will join a growing quantum hardware cluster … Read more
Insider Brief IonQ reported that its real-time error-correction decoder ran on a single conventional CPU while supporting simulated circuits of up to 408 logical qubits and more than 31.5 million quantum operations. The company said the dual-decoder system added as little as 0.02% processing delay under standard operational noise, aiming to prevent classical decoding from … Read more
Insider Brief Microsoft opened a 15,000-square-foot quantum research center at the University of Maryland that will support hardware research, partner integration, workforce training and government collaboration. The center will give DARPA on-site access to Microsoft’s latest topological quantum system, including qubits built on its Majorana 2 chip, for independent testing under the agency’s utility-scale quantum … Read more
Insider Brief Zapata Quantum has launched early access to Quantum Pilot, a cloud-based platform intended to help enterprises identify, assess and prioritize quantum-computing applications without committing to a single hardware provider. The platform combines a proprietary knowledge framework, AI-assisted resource estimation, algorithm selection, experiment design, hardware benchmarking and formal verification methods to evaluate technical and … Read more
Insider Brief Quobly and qBraid have made Quobly’s Alloy Forge silicon quantum development environment available through the qBraid cloud platform. Alloy Forge combines hardware-aware emulation, pulse-level simulation and realistic noise models to help developers test quantum applications before accessing Quobly hardware. The integration gives users access to Alloy Forge alongside more than 24 quantum computing … Read more
Insider Brief Quantum XChange and Carahsoft Technology have partnered to make Quantum XChange’s Phio TX cryptographic management platform available to U.S. public-sector organizations through Carahsoft’s reseller network and government contracts. Phio TX supports post-quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution and classical encryption under unified policy control, with FIPS 140-3 and FIPS 203 validation stated by the … Read more
Insider Brief Babcock and Arqit demonstrated secure transmission of scenario data between two sites at DVD 2026 using Arqit’s encryption technology. The demonstration transferred data from Millbrook to Babcock’s Ground Deployed Advanced Mortar System through a layered encryption network without physical inline encryptors. The demonstration follows an MoU between Babcock and Arqit covering potential collaboration … Read more
Insider Brief QuEra and HPE plan to integrate QuEra neutral-atom quantum systems with HPE Cray supercomputers for hybrid quantum-classical deployments at HPC centers, national laboratories and enterprises. The collaboration will focus on testbeds, algorithm co-design, software interoperability and system-level benchmarking, including a potential future gigaquop-scale on-premises system. QuEra said customers could use cloud-based access to … Read more