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Insider Brief CGI and D-Wave have formed a strategic partnership to help enterprises evaluate and deploy quantum computing applications in industries including logistics, transportation and retail. CGI will add D-Wave’s Advantage2 quantum computer and hybrid optimization tools to its technology services portfolio for applications such as production planning, energy-grid optimization and maintenance scheduling. The companies … Read more

Insider Brief Qunnect is working with U.S. government agencies and national security partners on quantum networking technologies aimed at securing communications against quantum and AI-enabled threats. The company’s new white paper outlines three security applications under development on its Carina hardware: Quantum Position Verification, Quantum Factor Authentication and Quantum Channel Protection. Qunnect’s government work includes … Read more

Insider Brief QUDORA will lead a seven-member German consortium seeking to develop a trapped-ion quantum computer with at least 1,000 physical qubits and 50 logical qubits under the NFQC-1k project. The project has an estimated €122 million total volume over up to five years and is part of Germany’s effort to establish at least two … Read more

Insider Brief An international survey of 160 quantum companies finds that the industry relies heavily on cross-border suppliers, manufacturing and customers as commercialization advances. Ninety percent of respondents reported at least one foreign supplier and 74% reported at least one foreign customer, with a median of three countries in each category. The United States, Germany, … Read more

Insider Brief Q.ANT has released an open-source software development kit for its photonic computing processors, including APIs, sample applications, documentation and a CPU-based simulation backend. The SDK allows developers to build and test applications on standard systems before running them on Q.ANT photonic hardware through cloud or on-premise access. Q.ANT plans to expand hardware access … Read more

Insider Brief Photonic Inc. and Microsoft are collaborating on quantum resource estimation for distributed, large-scale quantum computing systems and advanced error-correction approaches. The companies are exploring how architecture, quantum networking requirements and error-correction methods affect physical qubit counts, runtime and system overhead. Photonic plans to work with Microsoft’s Quantum Resource Estimator to examine its SHYPS … Read more

Insider Brief CGI and D-Wave Quantum have formed a strategic partnership to help enterprises evaluate and deploy quantum computing applications across logistics, transportation, retail and other industries. CGI will integrate D-Wave’s quantum computing platforms, including Advantage2 and hybrid solvers, into its advanced technology services portfolio. The companies plan to co-develop quantum use cases for areas … Read more

Insider Brief Classiq and Israel Natural Gas Lines (INGL) researched quantum optimization for natural gas transmission planning, including execution of a reduced problem on IonQ’s Forte-1 quantum processor. The hybrid quantum-classical workflow searched pressure configurations while accounting for supplier pressure, pipe characteristics, minimum customer pressure and other network constraints. Simulator testing identified a maximum-throughput valid … Read more

Insider Brief Azulene Labs raised $3.4 million in pre-seed funding to develop physics-based AI models for drug discovery, materials development and industrial chemistry. The company says its models use quantum-mechanical training data to improve the accuracy and efficiency of molecular simulations compared with existing AI approaches. Azulene plans to use the funding to expand its … Read more

Insider Brief IonQ plans to install a Superion 256 quantum computer at NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center, making it the center’s first on-premise quantum computing deployment. The system will connect directly to an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform through NVQLink and use CUDA-Q to coordinate hybrid quantum-classical workloads. The partners will research quantum-GPU system design, hybrid … Read more