Insider Brief MIT researchers developed a robotic optics laboratory that can autonomously assemble, align, tune and reconfigure precision optical experiments. In a demonstration, the system built and stabilized a tabletop laser cavity through 50 autonomous maneuvers in about 30 minutes. The researchers are developing remote-access capabilities and plan to use the system to test materials, … Read more

Insider Brief Stanford researchers directly observed individual phonons, or quantum units of sound, making discrete energy jumps in a mechanical resonator in real time. The team paired a long-lived microscopic resonator with a superconducting qubit that repeatedly measured whether its vibrational energy was present or had dropped from one quantum level to another. The result … Read more

Insider Brief South Korean quantum security company ICTK has signed an MoU with Jiran Security to jointly support post-quantum cryptography migration and cryptographic asset discovery. The Q-BRIDGE framework will cover cryptographic asset identification, quantum vulnerability analysis, post-quantum trust infrastructure, field validation and system migration. ICTK will provide PUF-based hardware security and PQC infrastructure, while Jiran … Read more

Insider Brief The U.S. Department of Energy has launched the Quantum Genesis Q Competition with up to $215 million in planned funding to support development of fault-tolerant scientifically relevant quantum computers. The competition will target systems with at least 100 logical qubits and hundreds of millions of fault-tolerant operations, with additional incentives for demonstrations reaching … Read more

Insider Brief Montana State University’s QCORE and Science Math Resource Center are inviting Montana middle school educators to apply for QuantumClub, a free quantum science education and outreach program. Five selected Montana organizations will receive virtual educator training, curriculum, supplies and ongoing support to deliver at least 10 hours of QuantumClub programming from November 2026 … Read more

Insider Brief Lawrence Semiconductor has appointed Don Garrison as General Manager and Chief Operating Officer to lead manufacturing, engineering, quality and customer delivery. Garrison brings more than 25 years of semiconductor manufacturing experience, including leadership roles at Littelfuse, NXP Semiconductors, GlobalFoundries and Intel. Lawrence is expanding capacity for photonics, sensing, quantum computing and defense customers, … Read more

Insider Brief Qtonic Quantum has launched QShield, a software-based post-quantum protection system for securing traffic between compatible Linux endpoints. QShield combines ML-KEM-1024, ML-DSA-87 and AES-256-GCM, with private keys remaining on participating endpoints and protected traffic blocked when required security conditions are not met. Qtonic Quantum reported 4,107 successful checks with zero failed checks and zero … Read more

Insider Brief The Quantum Insider (TQI) has entered into a partnership with Tesseract Quantum, a Swiss educational non-profit behind the YouTube channel The Quantum Kid, which has drawn over 120,000 subscribers and nearly 3 million views since launching in June 2025. The channel, run by theoretical physicist Katia Moskvitch and her 10-year-old son Kai, has … Read more

Guest Post by Michael Heinrich, co-founder and CEO of 0G Labs Ask a security team about quantum risk, and the conversation usually starts with encryption: harvest now, decrypt later, with adversaries recording today’s traffic so they can read it once a sufficiently powerful quantum computer exists. That risk is real, and the response is already … Read more

Insider Brief IonQ and Synopsys reported quantum-enhanced simulation workflows that reduced runtime by up to 14.6% across several industrial engineering models. The research integrated a quantum algorithm into Synopsys’ Ansys LS-DYNA software and tested models with meshes of up to 35 million data points using simulations of up to 150 qubits. The work was physically … Read more