Canva on Tuesday launched Canva Code 2.0, a major upgrade to its AI-powered coding tool that lets users build interactive websites, apps, and experiences using plain-language prompts — and then edit the results as easily as tweaking a Canva presentation. The feature is now available to all of the company’s more than 265 million monthly … Read more

Insider Brief Logical Qubit Technology launched a superconducting quantum computing cloud platform offering access to quantum hardware, logical qubit research tools, and pulse-level control capabilities. The platform provides access to the company’s AGate quantum chips, including 30-qubit and 100-qubit systems, for researchers and industry users exploring quantum algorithms and applications. Logical Qubit Technology also announced … Read more

Insider Brief nLighten and Arqit completed a proof of concept demonstrating how organizations can use public cloud services while maintaining control over sensitive data and cryptographic assets. The solution combines nLighten’s European edge data centre infrastructure with Arqit’s quantum-safe encryption technology and Intel confidential computing capabilities. The partners aim to help regulated organizations strengthen data … Read more

Insider Brief SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Shannon Harvey is developing scalable quantum dot qubits as part of the Q-NEXT quantum research center. Harvey’s research focuses on designing silicon-based quantum dots that can be manufactured at scale while addressing challenges such as noise and qubit control. The work explores quantum dot technologies as a potential … Read more

Insider Brief Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and EPCC have launched a multi-year collaboration to explore hybrid quantum-supercomputing workflows for industrial applications, beginning with gas turbine fluid dynamics simulations. The partners will combine Quantinuum’s quantum hardware and software, Rolls-Royce’s engineering use cases, Riverlane’s quantum error correction expertise and EPCC’s high-performance computing capabilities to develop and test fault-tolerant … Read more

Insider Brief A Nature Materials review outlines how atomically thin magnetic semiconductors can tightly couple light, electric charge and spin for potential quantum and optoelectronic applications. The City College of New York-led researchers describe how excitons interact with magnetic order and magnons, enabling optical readout and possible control of magnetic states. Potential applications include magneto-photonic … Read more

Insider Brief UCLA physicist Prineha Narang writes in a FT opinion piece that the United States must pair quantum research leadership with domestic manufacturing, procurement and secure supply chains. She points to the semiconductor industry as a warning that scientific invention does not guarantee long-term industrial or national security advantages. Narang says government purchasing commitments … Read more

Insider Brief The Jane Goodall Institute USA and FormationQ have launched a two-year research partnership using IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum computing to study why chimpanzees engage in lethal intergroup conflict while bonobos generally coexist peacefully, marking what the organizations describe as a first application of quantum-enhanced computing to this area of behavioral ecology. The project will … Read more

Insider Brief Q-PLANET, a €50 million European Quantum Chip Stability Pilot Line coordinated by Pasqal, has begun its work to advance industrial-grade components for neutral atom quantum technologies. The €50 million initiative brings together 28 organizations across 11 EU Member States to develop scalable manufacturing processes for quantum components. The project will focus on producing … Read more

Insider Brief Imec and Diraq demonstrated coherent operation and readout of an eight-qubit silicon MOS spin-qubit array fabricated on a 300mm CMOS-compatible technology platform. The demonstration extends previous silicon spin-qubit results by showing that larger qubit arrays can be developed while maintaining coherence and controllability. The research highlights a potential pathway for manufacturing scalable quantum … Read more