QuSecure Selected for Missile Defense Agency SHIELD Contract Vehicle
Insider Brief QuSecure Inc. was awarded a position on the Missile Defense Agency SHIELD indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle with a ceiling value of $151 billion. The contract enables QuSecure to deliver crypto-agile and post-quantum cryptography solutions, including its QuProtect R3 platform, across distributed and integrated defense networks. QuSecure’s offerings are based on NIST-approved post-quantum algorithms and […]
IonQ Surpasses $100 Million in Annual Revenue, Reports Quantum Sales Accelerating
Insider Brief IonQ reported $130 million in 2025 revenue, up 202% year over year, becoming the first publicly traded quantum computing company to exceed $100 million in annual GAAP revenue. The company ended the year with $3.3 billion in cash and investments, expanded commercial and international sales, and announced plans to acquire SkyWater Technology to […]
Keeper Security Integrates NIST-Approved Kyber Encryption
Insider Brief Keeper Security announced the integration of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism, a NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography standard, across its platform to provide quantum-resistant encryption. The implementation uses a hybrid approach combining elliptic curve cryptography with Kyber to secure client-server authentication and encrypted data-in-transit against both current and future quantum threats. Kyber-based protections are live […]
Bloq Joins IBM Quantum Network to Build Quantum Algorithms at Utility Scale
Insider Brief Bloq Quantum has joined the IBM Quantum Network startup program, becoming one of only three Indian startups in the global ecosystem and gaining cloud access to IBM’s advanced quantum computers. The company is building an end-to-end development platform that enables organizations to move from data to quantum deployment in a single environment, claiming […]
Quantum-Inspired Chip Powers Real-Time Navigation in Autonomous Robot
Insider Brief Toshiba and MIRISE embedded Toshiba’s quantum-inspired Simulated Bifurcation Machine into an autonomous mobile robot, marking what they describe as the first deployment of such a system directly onboard a mobile platform for real-time control. The companies developed a new multi-object tracking algorithm implemented on an embedded FPGA that achieved 23 frames per second […]
SEALSQ Deepens Technology Focus on CMOS-Compatible Quantum Architectures
Insider Brief SEALSQ Corp announced a strategic shift toward CMOS-compatible quantum computing architectures, prioritizing silicon spin qubits and electrons-on-helium platforms to align scalability with established semiconductor manufacturing. The company highlighted silicon-based approaches and FDSOI as potential enablers for integrating quantum processors with classical CMOS control electronics while managing noise and power constraints. SEALSQ is embedding […]
Researchers Build High-Dimensional Quantum Logic Gate
Insider Brief Researchers at TU Wien and collaborating teams in China demonstrated a novel entangling quantum logic gate that operates on four-level photonic systems (qudits), marking a key step toward higher-dimensional optical quantum computing. The gate enables controlled interaction, entanglement and disentanglement of two photons encoded in four distinct orbital angular momentum states, expanding beyond […]
QPerfect and SDT Launch Cloud Quantum Emulation Service
Insider Brief BTQ Technologies Corp. announced that QPerfect SA has partnered with SDT Inc. to integrate the MIMIQ virtual quantum computer into SDT’s QUREKA platform to launch a cloud-based quantum emulation service. The service enables large-scale quantum circuit emulation for academic and enterprise users, supporting algorithm testing and hybrid quantum-classical development beyond current hardware limits. […]
Rail Vision Subsidiary Deploys Quantum Error Correction Decoder on AWS
Insider Brief Rail Vision Ltd. announced that its majority-owned subsidiary Quantum Transportation Ltd. has deployed its transformer-based neural quantum error correction decoder on the AWS cloud to support scalable processing of quantum data. The cloud implementation follows earlier prototype development and simulation results, and is intended to enable testing of the decoder on physical quantum […]
Amazon Braket Expands Qiskit Integration With New Primitives and Compilation Tools
Insider Brief Amazon has released version 0.11 of its Qiskit-Braket provider, making it easier for Qiskit users to run quantum programs on hardware available through Amazon Braket. The update adds support for the latest version of Qiskit and simplifies how users prepare and send their quantum circuits to different types of quantum devices. It also […]