For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were off-limits to a large slice of the enterprises most interested in them. License terms that excluded the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea meant legal teams killed deployments before engineering teams … Read more

Insider Brief IQM Quantum Computers has acquired selected software and intellectual property assets from Quantistry GmbH to strengthen its full-stack quantum computing and simulation platform for industrial applications. The acquisition includes Quantistry’s simulation workflow software, algorithms, ML/AI layer, and key technical staff, aimed at integrating quantum hardware with industrial simulation workflows. The combined platform is … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers from the University of Sydney and IBM have identified key sources of error in quantum computations, particularly those arising from mid-circuit measurements in superconducting quantum systems. Using a 156-qubit IBM Quantum Heron processor, the team showed that measurement-induced idling noise is a major limiting factor and improved logical qubit survival rates from … Read more

Insider Brief EigenQ has announced new post-quantum security capabilities designed to help organizations prepare Intel Xeon-based infrastructure for CNSA 2.0-aligned cryptographic requirements. The platform integrates post-quantum cryptography and quantum entropy technologies with Intel’s ecosystem to support secure communications, identity, and workload protection without replacing existing systems. The collaboration with Intel and partners aims to enable … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM have performed quantum computer-based calculations of nine molecular configurations of FLiBe, a key material for fusion energy fuel production. The work demonstrates quantum-centric supercomputing applied to modeling complex fusion-relevant chemistry that is difficult to scale on classical computers alone. The study aims to … Read more

Insider Brief Keyfactor has secured a $1 billion+ strategic growth investment led by Summit Partners to accelerate expansion in machine identity and digital trust infrastructure for AI and post-quantum environments. The company plans to use the funding to scale its platform, expand geographically, enhance product capabilities, and pursue strategic acquisitions. Keyfactor provides a unified platform … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers demonstrated a hybrid quantum-classical portfolio optimization workflow that outperformed standalone QAOA on real market-data tests using Quantinuum’s trapped-ion hardware. The system handled problems involving up to 225 financial assets, with quantum circuits using as many as 78 qubits and more than 1,000 two-qubit gates. The researchers caution that the study does not … Read more

Insider Brief Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) has appointed Karna Nisewaner as Chief Legal Officer to support its commercial and governance strategy for atomic-precision and silicon-based quantum computing development. Nisewaner brings over 25 years of legal and executive experience across the semiconductor and technology sectors, including senior roles at Cadence Design Systems, IBM, and Intuit. The … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers developed a theoretical framework showing that many proposed signatures of quantum gravity can instead be interpreted as quantum particles moving through an ordinary classical gravitational field. The framework, described as the “Relativity of Spacetime Superpositions,” demonstrates that some scenarios viewed as quantum superpositions of gravity have an equivalent description using classical spacetime … Read more

Imagine if you could bring 250 people together in a massive room and have them discuss and debate an important issue, arguing the points and counterpoints, and converging on answers that accurately reflect their collective knowledge, wisdom, values, and sensibilities.Now imagine that you convened this debate on America’s 250th birthday and asked 250 randomly selected … Read more