Insider Brief SES and Airbus Netherlands will build a dedicated optical ground station in Noordwijk, Netherlands, to support the EAGLE-1 satellite’s quantum key distribution communications. The facility will use laser-based optical links to receive quantum-safe keys from EAGLE-1, supporting future secure communications for government and financial sector users. The ground station is part of Europe’s … Read more

Insider Brief Post-Quantum’s Classic McEliece algorithm has been included in the ISO/IEC 18033-2 standard for asymmetric ciphers, supporting broader adoption of the post-quantum cryptography scheme. The code-based cryptographic algorithm, originally developed by Post-Quantum and cryptographers, is designed to protect communications and sensitive data against future quantum computer attacks. The ISO standardization follows demonstrations of Classic … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that atomically thin niobium diselenide (NbSe₂) and tantalum disulfide (TaS₂) contain two strongly coupled superconducting orders rather than the single superconducting order previously believed. Using high-resolution tunneling spectroscopy and an advanced theoretical model, the team explained long-standing discrepancies in the materials’ superconducting energy spectra and … Read more

Insider Brief New Mexico’s Technology & Innovation Office awarded $1.2 million through the New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award to support six quantum and quantum-enabling companies expanding operations in the state. The six recipients, including Bandelier Technologies, Conductor Quantum, Mesa Photonics, Mesa Quantum, Photon Queue, and UbiQD, will each receive up to $200,000 in grant funding. … Read more

Insider Brief IBM reaffirmed its commitment to quantum computing and AI despite reporting weaker-than-expected preliminary second-quarter 2026 financial results driven by shortfalls in software and infrastructure performance. The company said it remains on track to deliver a large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029 and is continuing its planned investment of more than $10 billion in … Read more

Insider Brief The NSF awarded Connecticut’s QuantumCT Engine a two-year, $15 million Regional Innovation Engines grant to support quantum technology research, commercialization, and workforce development. Led by the University of Connecticut with partners including Yale University, Southern Connecticut State University, ConnCORP, CT Innovations, and the State of Connecticut, QuantumCT will develop quantum computing, sensing, communication, … Read more

Insider Brief California selected a UC Berkeley-developed eight-qubit quantum computing chip as one of its contributions to the America250 time capsule, which will be buried in Philadelphia until the United States’ 500th anniversary in 2276. The 10-millimeter quantum processing unit, developed with Berkeley Lab, was the first widely distributed QPU and has been used by … Read more

Insider Brief Classiq and ParityQC announced a partnership to combine quantum software optimization and hardware-aware architecture techniques for more efficient quantum program execution. The collaboration will integrate Classiq’s quantum software engineering platform with ParityQC’s Parity Twine technology to reduce circuit complexity and improve execution on quantum hardware with limited connectivity. The companies aim to support … Read more

Insider Brief D-Wave Quantum will transfer its stock listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Stock Market, with trading on Nasdaq under the ticker QBTS expected to begin July 27 following the July 24 market close. The company said it has met Nasdaq’s listing requirements and does not expect the move to … Read more

Insider Brief NVIDIA released an open-source AI-powered quantum error correction decoder that the company says reduced logical error rates by up to 347.7 times and accelerated decoding by up to 7.3 times for color code quantum error correction under benchmark conditions. The Ising Decoder ColorCode 1 Fast model uses a small convolutional neural network as … Read more