Insider Brief A new report from the Special Competitive Studies Project finds that the United States maintains a slight overall lead over China in quantum technologies, but warns that China’s coordinated national strategy is steadily narrowing the gap. The report concludes that the United States retains advantages in areas such as quantum software, error correction, … Read more
Insider Brief QuEra announced Libra, a fault-tolerant quantum computer planned for 2028, alongside an expanded multi-year collaboration with AWS to make the system available through Amazon Braket. Libra is designed to deliver more than 256 logical qubits, a logical error rate of 10⁻⁶, and approximately one million reliable logical quantum operations. The system builds on … Read more
Insider Brief Atom Computing and Phasecraft have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore how application-focused algorithms can benchmark progress toward utility-scale quantum computing. The collaboration will adapt Phasecraft’s quantum algorithms to Atom Computing’s neutral-atom hardware to advance applications in materials science, including battery and photovoltaic development. The partnership combines Atom Computing’s recent advances in … Read more
Insider Brief EigenQ, TD SYNNEX and AMD are collaborating to help public-sector, defense and enterprise organizations assess and prepare AMD EPYC processor-based server environments for the transition to post-quantum cybersecurity. The initiative is designed to support phased migration strategies by combining EigenQ’s post-quantum software, cryptographic-agility tools and quantum entropy technologies with AMD server platforms and … Read more
Insider Brief Constructor Start selected 40 startups from more than 2,100 applicants across 70 countries for its fourth equity-free accelerator cohort, with a strong emphasis on deep-tech sectors including quantum, health, energy, space, and physical AI. Three startups in the 2026 batch are focused on quantum technologies, including Memstera’s programmable quantum memory architecture, Pixel Photonics’ … Read more
Insider Brief QuiX Quantum has joined the QuantumBW and Photonics BW networks to strengthen collaboration across quantum technologies and photonics in Baden-Württemberg and Europe. The company has an established presence in Baden-Württemberg, including a Stuttgart office and plans to deliver its first universal photonic quantum computer to DLR QCI in Ulm. Through the memberships, QuiX … Read more
Insider Brief QNu Labs is showcasing its hybrid quantum-safe network and broader quantum-security portfolio at Bharat Innovates 2026 in France as one of 120 Indian deep-tech companies selected to represent India’s frontier technology capabilities. The company formalized a research collaboration with Eindhoven University of Technology under the ACE QKD programme to test, validate and strengthen … Read more
The history of distributed computing is one of protocol proliferation followed by consolidation. Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Java remote method invocation (RMI), and early simple object access protocol (SOAP) competed for the enterprise integration market in the late 1990s before representational state transfer (REST) quietly won by being … Read more
Insider Brief Israel’s Innovation Authority and the Ministry of Defense’s DDR&D have launched a new initiative worth up to NIS 150 million — about $51.4 million USD — to establish advanced integrated photonics infrastructure aimed at accelerating the development and commercialization of photonic chips in Israel. The selected facility will provide end-to-end R&D services — … Read more
The US government last night issued an unprecedented export control directive ordering Anthropic to immediately suspend all access to its top-tier Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals, citing unspecified national security authorities. In response, Anthropic has blocked all public access to both models, globally — meaning no users around the … Read more