Qubic Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round for Quantum Computing Hardware

Qubic Raises .5 Million Seed Round for Quantum Computing Hardware

Insider Brief Qubic has raised an oversubscribed $2.5 million USD ($3.5 million CAD) seed funding round to accelerate commercialization of its cryogenic amplifier technology and quantum sensing platform. The company develops low-noise cryogenic amplifiers designed to reduce heat dissipation in quantum computing systems, addressing a key challenge in scaling quantum hardware. Funding will support amplifier … Read more

IQM Says New Quantum Codes Cut Logical Error Rates by Up to 1,000 Times

IQM Says New Quantum Codes Cut Logical Error Rates by Up to 1,000 Times

Insider Brief IQM Quantum Computers reported a quantum error-correction advance using directional tile codes, a new family of codes designed to support practical fault-tolerant quantum computing on superconducting hardware. The research found that directional tile codes can reduce the per-logical per-round error rate by up to 1,000 times compared with the surface code at a … Read more

Quantum Computing Inc. Completes NHanced Semiconductors Acquisition

Quantum Computing Inc. Completes NHanced Semiconductors Acquisition

Insider Brief Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) has completed its acquisition of NHanced Semiconductors in a deal valued at $73.1 million upfront, with up to an additional $72 million tied to performance milestones. The acquisition adds semiconductor fabrication, advanced packaging, nanophotonics manufacturing, and engineering capabilities to support QCi’s commercialization and production roadmap. NHanced will operate as … Read more

Q.ANT Runs Generative AI on Photonic Hardware

Q.ANT Runs Generative AI on Photonic Hardware

Insider Brief Q.ANT demonstrated production-relevant AI workloads on its second-generation photonic Native Processing Unit, including a diffusion model for image-to-image synthesis and an xLSTM-based time series prediction model. The company said the demonstrations show its photonic architecture can support generative AI and sequential forecasting workloads while targeting 30 times the energy efficiency of classical processors … Read more

Symmatrics Launches Quantum-Secure VPN for Enterprise Networks

Symmatrics Launches Quantum-Secure VPN for Enterprise Networks

Insider Brief Symmatrics launched its Quantum Protected Network (QPN), a VPN platform that uses device authentication and one-time-use symmetric keys instead of traditional credential-based access methods. The QPN is designed to reduce risks associated with stolen credentials, long-lived session keys, predictable encryption handshakes, and future quantum-enabled decryption threats. The platform supports secure TCP and UDP … Read more

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, replacing its Slack app with a persistent AI teammate that learns, monitors and works autonomously

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, replacing its Slack app with a persistent AI teammate that learns, monitors and works autonomously

Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Tag, a new product that embeds its most advanced AI model directly inside Slack as a persistent, shared teammate that anyone on a team can delegate work to by simply typing @Claude.The product, available today in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers, replaces Anthropic’s existing Claude in Slack app … Read more

RIKEN Launches ROQUO Supercomputer for Quantum-HPC Hybrid Computing

RIKEN Launches ROQUO Supercomputer for Quantum-HPC Hybrid Computing

Insider Brief RIKEN Center for Computational Science has launched the ROQUO supercomputer to support the integration of quantum computing and high-performance computing through Japan’s Quantum-HPC Hybrid Platform. Developed under the JHPC-quantum project, ROQUO achieved 19.80 petaflops in the High Performance LINPACK benchmark during operational testing. The system is installed in Kobe and is intended to … Read more

BTQ Technologies Appoints Brandt Pasco as Post-Quantum Cryptography Advisor

BTQ Technologies Appoints Brandt Pasco as Post-Quantum Cryptography Advisor

Insider Brief BTQ Technologies appointed Brandt Pasco as U.S. Strategic Advisor for Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security to support its engagement with government, national security, and industry stakeholders. Pasco will help advance BTQ’s U.S. strategy across post-quantum security, cryptographic infrastructure, quantum software, and public-private partnership initiatives. The appointment comes amid increasing U.S. government focus on quantum … Read more

Aegiq Uses NVIDIA cuQuantum to Develop Quantum-Ready CFD Methods

Aegiq Uses NVIDIA cuQuantum to Develop Quantum-Ready CFD Methods

Aegiq is developing quantum-ready computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods that use tensor network techniques to improve the efficiency of high-fidelity fluid simulations. The company combined its tensor-network-based CFD approach with NVIDIA cuQuantum tools, demonstrating logarithmic runtime scaling and generating meshes with more than one billion nodes on an NVIDIA L40S GPU. Aegiq’s methods are designed … Read more

Quandela Validates Low-Latency Photonic QPU Integration with NVIDIA NVQLink

Quandela Validates Low-Latency Photonic QPU Integration with NVIDIA NVQLink

Insider Brief Quandela demonstrated a low-latency integration path between its photonic quantum processors and NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure, supporting hybrid quantum-classical computing workflows. The validation used NVIDIA NVQLink, an FPGA-based Quantum System Controller, and a Quandela photonic QPU to enable real-time communication between quantum and classical systems. The approach is aimed at future HPC, AI, … Read more