Insider Brief Qunnect has received a DARPA contract to advance its Carina quantum networking system, which distributes entanglement across deployed telecommunications fiber. The funding will support improvements to Carina’s polarization compensation technology, which helps maintain quantum signal quality across real-world fiber networks. Carina is currently being used in quantum network deployments in locations including New … Read more

Insider Brief Xanadu Quantum Technologies and the University of Alberta have formed a research partnership to explore quantum algorithms for designing photosensitizers used in photodynamic cancer therapy. The collaboration will combine Xanadu’s quantum algorithm expertise with Professor Alex Brown’s research in computational modeling of photosensitizer systems. The research aims to investigate whether quantum computing can … Read more

Insider Brief BTQ Technologies has signed an MOU with ITCEN PNS to explore post-quantum cryptography and quantum-safe security solutions for financial, public-sector, and enterprise systems. The collaboration will focus on integrating PQC, quantum-safe authentication, and security infrastructure across digital identity, biometric authentication, financial networks, and enterprise platforms. The partnership combines BTQ’s post-quantum security technologies with … Read more

Insider Brief New York is offering up to $60 million to establish as many as four regional hubs focused on commercializing quantum technologies and supporting startups. Empire State Development anticipates awards of about $15 million per hub, with only one hub selected in each economic development region. Eligible nonprofit organizations must propose physical facilities that … Read more

Insider Brief SDT has joined Open Quantum Design as a member and manufacturing partner to support the development of open-source ion-trap quantum computing hardware. The partnership will have SDT manufacture components including vacuum chambers, ion-trapping electrodes, optical systems, and control electronics based on OQD’s publicly available designs. SDT and OQD aim to expand access to … Read more

Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform used by Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, released its new flagship model Palmyra X6 today, alongside a rebuilt agent orchestration “harness” and new governance tools designed to give IT leaders control over runaway token spending.The headline numbers are striking: Writer says its agent product now operates … Read more

Guest Post By Utkarsh Ahuja, Managing Partner and founder Moon Pursuit Capital KPMG’s latest Venture Pulse gives you a pretty good sense of where venture capital’s attention is right now. Global VC investment reached $227.4 billion in the second quarter of 2026, making it the second-highest quarter on record, and AI was behind many of … Read more

Insider Brief Infleqtion reported record Q2 2026 revenue of $12.6 million, representing 116% year-over-year growth, and raised its full-year 2026 revenue outlook to approximately $43 million. The company advanced quantum computing and sensing programs, including government funding initiatives, a planned Illinois quantum computer deployment, and commercial application projects. Infleqtion reiterated its target of reaching 30 … Read more

Guest Post by Dr. Richard Padbury, Dr. Aaron Kemp, Dr. Cian Reeves In boardrooms around the world, a familiar question keeps coming up: When will quantum advantage arrive? It is a fair question. Increasingly, though, it may be the wrong one. That is not because quantum advantage has yet to be observed. A growing number … Read more

Insider Brief Optica Publishing Group has appointed NIST Fellow Kartik Srinivasan as the new editor-in-chief of Optica Quantum. Srinivasan brings research expertise in integrated quantum photonics, nonlinear nanophotonics, and photonic systems, with applications in quantum communications and sensing. He succeeds founding editor-in-chief Michael G. Raymer and will lead the journal’s editorial activities for the quantum … Read more