Insider Brief D-Wave Quantum will release its second quarter 2026 financial results on August 6, 2026, before U.S. markets open. The company will host an investor conference call featuring CEO Dr. Alan Baratz and CFO John Markovich to discuss results and business outlook. D-Wave will provide access to the earnings release, webcast, and conference call … Read more
Insider Brief Qedma has integrated its Quantum Error Suppression and Error Mitigation (QESEM) software with Quantinuum’s quantum computing platform through the company’s Startup Partner Program. The integration allows users to apply Qedma’s error mitigation technology on Quantinuum hardware to improve quantum circuit accuracy and support more complex workloads. The collaboration aims to expand access to … Read more
Insider Brief IBM has signed an agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories to expand its quantum computing research capabilities through HRL’s expertise in silicon-spin qubit engineering, sensing, and advanced materials. HRL’s researchers and technologies will complement IBM’s existing superconducting qubit efforts while supporting work across quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum networking. Boeing and General Motors, … Read more
Insider Brief Quantinuum has appointed Robin Schulman as Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary and Rory O’Byrne as Chief People Officer as the company expands its leadership team. Schulman joins from GitLab with experience in legal, compliance, and corporate affairs roles, while O’Byrne brings more than 25 years of global human resources leadership experience. The … Read more
Insider Brief Hitachi has launched a government-backed research project with Intel K.K. and AIST to develop silicon quantum computing technologies that support the transition from laboratory research to industrial-scale manufacturing. The project will develop 100-qubit silicon quantum chip designs, manufacturing toolkits, 3D integration technologies for future 1,000-qubit systems, and a cloud platform that will give … Read more
Insider Brief Zero Point Cryogenics has opened its first international Innovation and Service Hub at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago to support quantum technology customers. The company will supply cryogenic systems to IQMP while providing installation, maintenance, and technical support services across the United States. The expansion strengthens ZPC’s role in the … Read more
Insider Brief Northwestern University researchers demonstrated that entangled photons can be distributed over a 24.4-kilometer metropolitan fiber-optic link while the same cable simultaneously carried high-capacity commercial internet traffic, supporting the feasibility of quantum networks on existing telecommunications infrastructure. By transmitting quantum signals in the optical O-band, separating them from conventional C-band traffic, and using precise … Read more
Insider Brief Shanghai-based Taiyi Quantum has raised RMB 300 million (about US$42 million) in a Pre-A financing round to accelerate development of its ytterbium neutral-atom quantum computing platform and advance toward fault-tolerant quantum computers. Founded in January 2026, the company is building scalable neutral-atom systems based on ytterbium atoms and aims to complete its first … Read more
When Hugging Face got hit last week, co-founder Clement Delangue suspected a frontier lab, given the agent’s sophistication. He was right. Delangue said on X that after a day working with OpenAI he strongly believed there was no malicious intent and that it was mind-blowing the whole thing had happened autonomously.The two OpenAI models that … Read more
You spend weeks tuning an AI chatbot. Answers are accurate. Stakeholders sign off, and you ship it. Three months later, the system is confidently wrong about a third of what users ask. Nobody changed the model, and nobody touched the prompts. The world moved, pricing changed, a policy updated, a product spec shipped a new … Read more