Insider Brief IonQ expects full-year 2026 revenue of $450 million to $460 million, including five months of contributions from its newly acquired SkyWater Technology business. The forecast accounts for the elimination of estimated revenue from transactions between IonQ and SkyWater under their pre-existing commercial agreement. IonQ said the acquisition adds manufacturing capacity and could accelerate … Read more

Insider Brief D-Wave has finalized a definitive agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce giving the company access to up to $100 million in CHIPS and Science Act funding. The funding will support development and scaling of D-Wave’s annealing and gate-model quantum systems, including planned 100,000-qubit and 10,000-qubit systems. The Department of Commerce will receive … Read more

Insider Brief Singapore and Luxembourg plan to deepen cooperation in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, space technology and satellite communications. The countries are major financial hubs with strong investment ties and limited domestic markets. Their leaders also discussed closer ASEAN-EU relations and support for international stability, trade and the rule of law. Singapore and Luxembourg plan … Read more

Guest Post by Edwin Mata, Co-Founder and CEO of Brickken Building financial infrastructure is strange: you have to make decisions today for assets that may still exist long after the underlying technology has changed. That is especially true in tokenization because a bond issued on-chain today might mature in twenty years. An interest in a … Read more

Insider Brief Fujitsu developed what it describes as the world’s first working diamond-spin quantum computer prototype integrating tin-vacancy centers with photonic circuits. The prototype operates at minus 271.6 degrees Celsius and can be accessed through Fujitsu’s Hybrid Quantum Computing Platform. Fujitsu plans to develop a multi-module prototype by 2027 and is exploring integration with superconducting … Read more

Insider Brief India’s Global Fintech Fest 2026 is set to open in Mumbai on September 8, with quantum technology, agentic AI and tokenization among the main topics on the agenda. The four-day event will bring together regulators, financial institutions, technology companies, investors and academics to discuss emerging technologies and financial systems. Maharashtra officials are positioning … Read more

Guest Post by Somtochukwu Igwegbe, African Quantum Consortium Correspondent, Research & Development, Quantum Africa. Quantum computing hardware is being built almost entirely outside Africa, in laboratories across North America, Europe, and Asia. That fact has shaped how the continent is usually written into the story: as a market to eventually reach, not a place doing … Read more

Insider Brief Sparrow Quantum and Ruhr University Bochum developed a deterministic source that delivers more than 500 million usable photons per second into optical fiber. The source operates at 1 gigahertz with more than 50% fiber efficiency while maintaining high photon purity and indistinguishability without spectral filtering. The increased photon supply could enable experiments involving … Read more

Insider Brief NEC has halted development of quantum computer hardware after determining that commercialization would take too long to produce an adequate return on investment. The company will continue developing quantum annealing, quantum-inspired computing and related services using conventional computer systems. The decision ends a hardware effort that included the world’s first demonstration of a … Read more

Yuval Boger interviews Brian Gaucher, an experienced engineer and IBM veteran who co-chaired ERVA’s report Engineering Research to Advance Quantum Technologies. Brian explains that while U.S. quantum science remains strong, global competition is accelerating and the key limiter is no longer physics discovery but engineering the path from “lab to fab”—scalable, manufacturable, reliable systems. They … Read more