Insider Brief Q.ANT has appointed former IBM executive Joerg Behrend as Vice President Hardware to lead development of its next generations of photonic processors. Behrend will oversee work spanning chip technology, processor architecture and production readiness of Q.ANT’s Native Processing Units (NPUs). His appointment is the fifth leadership addition at Q.ANT within 12 months as … Read more

Insider Brief Former Google Managing Director Gina Fratarcangeli has joined Qtonic Quantum as Senior Advisor, AI Transformation and Global Alliances, focusing on enterprise adoption and strategic partnerships. Fratarcangeli will advise Qtonic Quantum on commercial strategy, enterprise buying priorities and alliances with systems integrators, cloud providers and channel partners. Her role will support the company’s Find. … Read more

Insider Brief SandboxAQ and Northrop Grumman completed what they described as the first test combining magnetic and visual navigation on an attritable, one-way attack drone. SandboxAQ’s AQNav system provided Northrop Grumman’s Lumberjack drone with positioning capabilities that do not depend on GPS or other externally transmitted signals. Engineers installed the hardware-agnostic AQNav software on the … Read more

Insider Brief Keyfactor exceeded $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in early Q3 2026 as demand for machine identity and digital trust infrastructure grows. The company says it manages hundreds of billions of machine identities annually for more than 1,000 customers and has expanded adoption across financial services, retail, technology and government. Keyfactor is … Read more

Guest Post by Sudiptaa Paul Choudhury CMO, QNu Labs  |  TEDx Speaker  |  LinkedIn Top Voice, AI and Quantum Cybersecurity In March 2026, Google’s Quantum AI team published findings suggesting that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could crack Bitcoin’s core encryption in roughly nine minutes, using fewer resources than experts had assumed just months earlier. … Read more

Guest Post by Dr. Kris Naudts, Zeynep Koruturk and Donald Harmitt @ Firgun Ventures. Firgun Ventures is a VC firm investing in Series A/B quantum scale-ups globally. CERN occupies a monumental position in European science and particle physics. The laboratory near Geneva operates the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful accelerator, and … Read more

Insider Brief La Luce Cristallina launched a 0.5-micrometer silicon-based quantum paraelectric strontium titanate on insulator (QP-STOI) wafer platform for quantum, cryogenic and nonlinear device research. The highly insulating STO layer is 100 times thicker than conventional STO buffer layers and is designed to support voltage-tunable dielectric behavior at cryogenic temperatures. The platform is currently available … Read more

Insider Brief NVision Quantum Technologies has been selected as one of 13 companies for the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s Quantum Grand Challenge to develop a roadmap for scaling its PIQC spin-qubit architecture. The four-month QOSMOS project will assess NVision’s photon-interfaced spin-qubit technology and define hardware, software and integration milestones toward an error-corrected quantum computing platform. QOSMOS … Read more

Insider Brief Quobly and Absolut System have signed an Industrial Partnership Declaration to support the development and scaling of Quobly’s silicon spin-qubit quantum computers. The companies are developing the QCube 100-Class 3 cryogenic platform, designed to provide 100 mW of cooling power at 500 mK and support Quobly’s quantum processors. Their four-phase roadmap covers qualification, … Read more

Insider Brief Universal Quantum is establishing its first dedicated R&D centre outside Europe in Singapore, backed by an investment of more than SGD 30 million and an initial team of 25. The Singapore centre will focus on ion trap chip development, advanced packaging and integration to support the company’s trapped-ion quantum computing roadmap. EDBI is … Read more