Insider Brief Researchers developed a generalized quantum computational spectroscopy method that uses quantum computers to study complex systems that are difficult to model with conventional machines. The method uses an ancilla-assisted Hadamard test to examine static, time-changing and environmentally affected systems, including parity-time symmetry breaking and topological holonomy. The approach could support research in physics, … Read more

Insider Brief D-Wave CFO John Markovich will retire and resign from his position effective September 2, 2026, after five years with the company. Markovich helped lead D-Wave through its 2022 public listing, more than $900 million in capital raises and efforts to improve financial performance. D-Wave senior vice president of finance Greg Golkov will serve … Read more

Insider Brief Yale will lead a $37.5 million NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute focused on developing practical approaches to quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing. The five-year NSF PRACTIQAL center will bring together physicists, engineers, computer scientists and chemists to address challenges across quantum hardware, control electronics, error-correction codes and algorithms. The research will … Read more

Insider Brief The U.S. Department of Energy has announced $7.3 million in funding for eight projects applying quantum information science and technology to high-energy physics experiments and simulations. The projects will develop quantum sensors and quantum computing applications for particle collider experiments and high-intensity environments such as neutrino experiments. The awards were selected through DOE’s … Read more

Insider Brief The U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign-led NSF HQAN with $37.5 million over five years to advance modular quantum computing and workforce development. NSF HQAN brings together 45 senior researchers from six institutions to develop interconnected quantum processing architectures, including interconnects, transducers, hardware testbeds, software and algorithms. The … Read more

Insider Brief Photonic’s SHYPS quantum error-correction code paper has been published in Nature Communications, reporting a QLDPC code family designed to perform quantum computation and error correction with fewer physical qubits than surface codes. The SHYPS codes are designed for high-connectivity quantum architectures and combine quantum logic with error correction within the same code. The … Read more

Insider Brief The University of Strathclyde is leading a three-year, €2 million EU-funded project to develop quantum memories for long-distance quantum networks. The AL FreSQO project will investigate cold-atom quantum memories, free-space optical links and wavelength conversion to support quantum communication over longer distances. The technology could support quantum networking applications in space, aviation, shipping … Read more

Insider Brief Diraq has opened a 20-person U.S. Technology Hub in Santa Monica, California, focused on engineering silicon spin-qubit quantum computing systems. The hub covers integrated circuit design, architecture, software, device modeling and machine learning, with Diraq planning to double its team over the next 12 months. The Santa Monica site will work with Diraq’s … Read more

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A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world incidents, it came back at No. … Read more