Insider Brief Quantum Dice and North Wales Police completed Project PROTECT, a proof-of-technology evaluating probabilistic computing for emergency-response vehicle deployment planning. In a modelled deployment scenario, the approach reduced average response times to 4.82 minutes, about 40% below the station-based baseline, while increasing P0 demand reachable within 10 minutes from 58.8% to 75.6%. A separate … Read more

Insider Brief The QUOPS benchmark measures how much computation a quantum computer can complete successfully and how quickly it can perform the work. Tests found that Quantinuum’s Helios handled larger circuits, while Google’s Willow and IBM’s Boston completed operations at higher rates. The study estimates that current quantum computing capability must increase about 100,000-fold to … Read more

Insider Brief TOYO Corporation has purchased a second IQM quantum computer to expand access to quantum education, research and technology testing in Japan. The IQM Spark system will be installed at TOYO’s Tokyo R&D center and is expected to begin operating in early 2027. TOYO’s Spark and planned 20-qubit IQM Radiance systems will be available … Read more

Insider Brief Fujitsu released OpenQARP as open-source software, offering more than 100 components designed to streamline quantum application development. The package includes more than 70 composable building blocks and 20 ready-to-run algorithms, including tools developed by Fujitsu. OpenQARP supports standard PCs, NVIDIA CUDA-Q and Fujitsu’s 40-qubit simulator, following beta testing by more than 80 organizations. … Read more

Insider Brief Entrust has added CBOM import and export capabilities to its Cryptographic Security Platform to help organizations connect cryptographic inventories with governance, risk assessment, and remediation. The platform now includes Ansible-based certificate lifecycle automation, expanded support for composite algorithms, and SPIRE-based capabilities for machine and AI identities. Entrust is offering the Cryptographic Security Platform … Read more

Insider Brief Cloq, a quantum clock startup founded by University of Oxford students, won the top prize at the fourth Reuben Entrepreneurship Forum. The team is developing a compact, low-cost quantum clock based on a University of Oxford patent involving a nitrogen atom trapped inside a buckminsterfullerene molecule. Cloq previously placed second at Oxford Edge’s … Read more

Insider Brief Quandela and NVIDIA have published a technical white paper outlining an architecture for integrating Quandela’s photonic QPUs into existing AI and HPC infrastructure. The framework combines CPUs, GPUs and QPUs, with NVIDIA CUDA-Q, cuQuantum and NVQLink supporting quantum algorithm development, GPU simulation and low-latency QPU integration. The companies propose a three-step path covering … Read more

Insider Brief The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $20 million in a two-year pilot led by the University of Central Florida to support commercialization of federally funded deep-technology research. The pilot will provide commercialization funding, expert mentorship, and investor connections to small businesses developing deep-technology ventures. NSF and UCF will evaluate the program to … Read more

Insider Brief Photonic’s proposed Project VANGUARD would establish a Canadian multi-tenant semiconductor manufacturing facility at an estimated cost of up to CAD$500 million — or about US$359 million. The facility would serve commercial and government customers in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, aerospace, defense, advanced sensing and semiconductor packaging. The project was selected for the Canada … Read more

Insider Brief BlueQubit has opened applications for its $150,000 Quantum Flywheel grant program, supported by IBM, AWS, and NVIDIA accelerated computing. The three-month program will provide selected research teams with QPU, CPU, and GPU compute access, frontier AI models, and BlueQubit’s quantum development environment. The program seeks proposals focused on quantum algorithms, classical simulation of … Read more