Insider Brief BTQ Technologies’ QPerfect subsidiary has partnered with the University of Strasbourg to develop a digital twin of France’s aQCess neutral-atom quantum computing platform. The collaboration will use QPerfect’s MIMIQ simulation platform to create a hardware-accurate model of the aQCess processor for testing and validating quantum workloads. The project aims to support open access … Read more

Insider Brief Keyfactor has expanded its Global Partner Program to help partners deliver cryptographic security, crypto-agility, and post-quantum cryptography readiness services. The program provides partners with new training, certification, cloud ecosystem support, and resources to build quantum-ready digital trust services. Keyfactor aims to help organizations address growing cryptographic challenges driven by artificial intelligence adoption, machine … Read more

Insider Brief Quantum Computing Inc. has appointed Susan Hunt as Chief Revenue Officer and moved former CRO Pouya Dianat into the newly created Chief Product Officer role. Hunt will lead QCi’s global revenue strategy and commercial expansion, while Dianat will oversee product strategy and commercialization efforts. The leadership changes are intended to strengthen QCi’s commercial … Read more

Insider Brief PsiQuantum has signed an expanded $125 million agreement with DARPA under the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, remaining one of two companies in the program’s final Stage C to validate its pathway toward utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. The performance-based award will fund expanded testing of PsiQuantum‘s hardware, software, system architecture and infrastructure, including investments at … Read more

Insider Brief The U.S. Department of Energy has selected 278 projects for award negotiations under its Genesis Mission to develop AI-enabled scientific workflows aimed at accelerating research in energy, discovery science and national security. The selected portfolio includes projects led by national laboratories, universities, companies and nonprofit organizations, with research spanning areas such as nuclear … Read more

Insider Brief Zhongqi Wuliang unveiled a server-form-factor neutral atom quantum computer at WAIC 2026, aiming to make quantum systems deployable in standard data center racks rather than specialized laboratory environments. The Shanghai startup, incubated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences‘ Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, says its neutral atom architecture offers a scalable … Read more

Insider Brief Rice University has joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s Quantum Science Center to contribute research on quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing. Rice professor Tirthak Patel will lead a project developing and evaluating quantum error-correction decoding methods on high-performance computing platforms. The research aims to address scalability challenges in quantum error correction … Read more

Insider Brief The Hewlett Foundation launched a five-year, $100 million Emerging Technology and Security Initiative supporting work on AI, biotechnology, and quantum computing security. The initiative will fund research and organizations focused on critical infrastructure protection, emerging technology risks, and governance frameworks. Quantum computing is one of the technologies the program aims to address as … Read more

Insider Brief Quantinuum and SoftBank have published a white paper outlining how advances in quantum hardware and algorithms could influence the commercial readiness of quantum chemistry and graph analytics applications. The analysis maps two application areas already being researched by SoftBank on Quantinuum’s systems—materials and energy research through quantum chemistry, and large-scale graph analytics for … Read more

Guest Post By Jithesh Mithra, Independent Researcher, Jacksonville, Florida Here is a result that should not happen. Take a quantum error correction (QEC) code, fix the physical error rate, and ask a simple question. Does adding more qubits make it work better? Under a single noise assumption, the answer would be yes. However under a … Read more