Quantum Computers Get a Boost from a Tiny Material Tweak
Insider Brief Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Arkansas, and Dartmouth College report that adding tiny amounts of tin and silicon to the barriers of a germanium-based quantum well unexpectedly boosted electrical mobility, improving how efficiently the device can transmit information. The findings, published in Advanced Electronic Materials, suggest that atomic short-range ordering—how […]
India’s Quantum Roadmap Targets 10 Globally Competitive Startups by 2035 in Bid to Become a Top-Three Power
Insider Brief India has released a national roadmap to become a top-three global quantum power by 2035, outlining plans to scale domestic hardware, dominate quantum software markets, and deploy the technology across strategic and civilian sectors. The report sets targets including at least 10 globally competitive quantum startups generating over $100 million each, the capture […]
UK Backs First Mobile Quantum Brain Scanner to Study Blast Effects on Troops
Insider Brief The UK is funding development of the world’s first fully mobile quantum-enabled MEG brain scanner to measure real-time effects of blast exposure on military personnel at training sites. The mobile system, which uses quantum-based optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) to measure tiny magnetic fields generated by brain activity with unprecedented sensitivity, will allow Defence […]
KETS Quantum Security CEO Warns UK to Revolutionise Funding or Risk Innovation Exodus
Insider Brief A leading UK quantum executive is warning that without a Quantum Sovereign Wealth Fund in the upcoming Budget, the UK risks losing its quantum companies, talent, and intellectual property to foreign markets. Several British quantum firms — including PsiQuantum, Universal Quantum, and Oxford Ionics — have already shifted operations abroad this year due […]
Report: Error Correction Becomes ‘Universal Priority’ But Talent Shortage Looms
Insider Brief A new report finds that real-time quantum error correction has become the central requirement for achieving utility-scale quantum computing as investment, technical progress, and workforce pressures intensify. Global funding for quantum computing has reached about $50 billion, with Japan now leading annual government investment and Google’s late-2024 QEC demonstration reshaping hardware priorities across […]
UK Critical Minerals Strategy 2035: What It Means for Quantum Computing and Quantum Technologies
Insider Brief The UK’s new Vision 2035 minerals strategy aims to secure lithium, rare earths and other critical materials to support advanced industries including clean energy, defense, semiconductors and emerging quantum technologies. By expanding domestic refining, midstream processing and recycling capacity, the plan reduces reliance on concentrated global supply chains that also underpin superconducting, photonic […]
Guest Post — Building a UK Quantum Strategy: The UK Must Win The Race for the Next Critical Technology
Guest Post by Guy Ward Jackson, Senior Science & Technology Policy Analyst, Tony Blair Institute. “Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical”. As anxieties around artificial intelligence hitting a wall are making market bulls think twice, the words of the American physicist Richard Feynman […]
U.K. Budget Leaves Quantum Out—But Builds the Infrastructure the Sector Will Rely On
Insider Brief The U.K.’s Autumn 2025 Budget contains no dedicated quantum funding, but introduces broad reforms that reshape the environment in which the nation’s quantum sector operates. Increased investment in sovereign compute, UKRI’s IS-8 industrial framework, and procurement-led innovation mechanisms form the main policy shifts affecting quantum companies. Capital-market changes, workforce programs and infrastructure measures […]
Quantum Exponential Group plc Launches Fundraising For £100 Million Fund Dedicated to UK Quantum Technologies
Insider Brief Quantum Exponential Group plc has launched fundraising for a £100 million venture capital fund to accelerate the commercialization and scale-up of UK quantum technologies in alignment with the National Quantum Strategy. The Quantum Technologies Fund will invest across all stages of innovation, with about two-thirds of capital directed toward UK-based companies and partnerships […]
Global Quantum Collaboration Takes Flight With Launch of NMI-Q
Insider Brief NMI-Q, a new international alliance of National Metrology Institutes from the G7 nations and Australia, has been launched to advance global standards and measurement science for quantum technologies. Announced by UK Science Minister Lord Vallance at the National Physical Laboratory during the International Year of Quantum, the initiative aims to accelerate quantum commercialisation […]