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
Insider Brief QuEra Computing and HPE are collaborating to integrate QuEra’s neutral-atom fault-tolerant quantum systems with HPE Cray supercomputing platforms for on-premise hybrid quantum-classical computing. The collaboration will focus on integrated testbeds, hybrid algorithm co-design, software interoperability and system-level performance benchmarking. QuEra plans to offer cloud and on-premise routes to its fault-tolerant systems, including Libra, … Read more
Insider Brief Aviatrix launched Harvest and Decrypt Protection, combining post-quantum encryption with communication governance for cloud workloads. The offering uses crypto-agile encryption and workload-level communication controls to protect data from harvest-now-decrypt-later risks and restrict data egress paths. Aviatrix said the service is available immediately, with five policies and five nodes free for existing customers and … Read more