Insider Brief IQM and Real Asset Acquisition Corp. announced that the SEC has declared effective the registration statement related to their proposed business combination. RAAQ shareholders will vote on the transaction at an extraordinary general meeting scheduled for June 25, 2026. Upon completion of the transaction, IQM plans to become a public company and list … Read more

Insider Brief Diraq has appointed former Broadcom and Philips Semiconductors executive Scott A. McGregor as Chairman of its Board of Directors. McGregor brings semiconductor industry experience that aligns with Diraq’s CMOS-compatible silicon quantum computing approach. The appointment comes as Diraq expands its U.S. presence, develops industry partnerships, and advances plans for commercial quantum computing systems. … Read more

Insider Brief Defiance ETFs has launched the Defiance Long Pure Quantum ETF (QTUP), an actively managed fund focused on early-stage companies whose businesses are primarily tied to quantum computing and machine learning. The new ETF expands Defiance’s quantum lineup, which now includes the broad-based Defiance Quantum ETF (QTUM), the concentrated QTUP fund and the leveraged … Read more

Insider Brief Xanadu founder Christian Weedbrook argues that Canada should make quantum literacy a national priority alongside AI education to prepare its workforce and economy for the next wave of technological change. Weedbrook writes that broader public understanding of quantum computing could strengthen entrepreneurship, support adoption across industries and help Canada address future cybersecurity challenges … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers developed a quantum neural network training framework that enabled direct gradient-based optimization on quantum hardware while maintaining performance comparable to strong classical imputation methods on a clinical dataset. The approach combines a Butterfly circuit architecture, layer-wise training and a parallelized gradient-estimation technique to substantially reduce the number of quantum circuit evaluations required … Read more

A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness-1, a 20-billion parameter open-source search agent built atop OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20B open source model that fundamentally redesigns how AI executes complex retrieval tasks. Harness-1 achieves a massive leap in … Read more

Insider Brief WiMi is exploring a multi-dimensional pooling optimization approach that combines variational quantum algorithms, the Quantum Haar Transform, and quantum partial measurement techniques. The proposed framework is designed to preserve local feature information while reducing data dimensionality in high-dimensional datasets. According to the company, the approach could support future quantum machine learning applications involving … Read more

Insider Brief The United States and Japan announced a planned $1 billion partnership under the Genesis Mission to support joint research in areas including quantum information science, fusion energy, advanced materials, biotechnology, and AI-driven discovery. Eleven joint research teams will bring together DOE National Laboratories, DOE user facilities, and leading Japanese institutions to collaborate on … Read more

Insider Brief The Quantum Insider will host a July 7 webinar with Haiqu examining whether agent-based systems can reduce inefficiencies and accelerate quantum research and development workflows. The panel will explore where quantum R&D teams lose time, demonstrate an agentic operating system from research question to hardware execution and results reporting, and include a live … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers at the University of Chicago proposed a simple cavity QED method that can generate and control a wide range of highly entangled quantum states using standard laboratory tools and adjustable laser-driven energy offsets. The approach breaks the symmetry of conventional cavity QED systems by assigning paired atoms opposite energy shifts, enabling the … Read more