Serendipity Capital to join London Quantum Cluster Advisory Board
Insider Brief Serendipity Capital’s UK Head, Kurtis Gann, has been appointed to the advisory board of the newly established London Quantum Cluster. The London Quantum Cluster, backed by the Mayor of London, aims to strengthen co-investment, collaboration, and connectivity across the UK’s quantum research and industry ecosystem. Gann will contribute his commercialisation experience to help […]
French Government Backs New Technology for Industrial Quantum Chip Production
Insider Brief Alice & Bob, supported by France’s defense innovation agency AID, has received the new SQUID-6 UHV quantum chip fabrication system from PLASSYS-BESTEK as part of the ULTRACAT project to advance fault-tolerant quantum computing. The SQUID-6 UHV enables automated, ultra-high-vacuum deposition for producing high-quality cat-qubit processors, reducing contamination and accelerating chip design cycles. The […]
Quandela Delivers Photonic Quantum Computer to EuroHPC and GENCI at CEA’s TGCC
Insider Brief Quandela has delivered Lucy, a 12-qubit photonic quantum computer, to the CEA’s Très Grand Centre de calcul (TGCC) under the EuroQCS-France consortium led by GENCI and procured by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Lucy, assembled entirely within the EU with 80% European-sourced components, will be coupled to the Joliot-Curie supercomputer to enable hybrid high-performance […]
Quantum Imaging Research Could Improve Retinal Scans
Insider Brief The €4.5 million Horizon Europe-funded SEQUOIA project is developing a quantum imaging technique that combines entangled photons and AI to surpass the 1-micron resolution limit of today’s Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems used in eye disease diagnosis. By achieving potential resolutions down to 0.5 microns—twice as sharp as current methods—the technology could help […]
Universal Quantum CEO Outlines Five-Step Plan Before Parliament Committee to Secure UK’s Quantum Future
Insider Brief Universal Quantum CEO Dr. Sebastian Weidt told Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee that the UK risks losing its global lead in quantum computing without faster government investment, procurement, and manufacturing support. Weidt outlined a five-step plan calling for quicker capital deployment, domestic infrastructure for building quantum computers, and government procurement to anchor […]
Google Quantum AI Shows 13,000× Speedup Over World’s Fastest Supercomputer in Physics Simulation
Insider Brief Google Quantum AI’s 65-qubit processor performed a complex physics simulation 13,000 times faster than the Frontier supercomputer, marking measurable progress toward practical quantum advantage. The experiment used a new “Quantum Echoes” algorithm to measure interference effects called OTOC(2), revealing quantum behavior that classical machines cannot efficiently reproduce. The team linked the work to […]
Rydberg Technologies Inc. Announces Launch of Rydberg Photonics in Berlin
Insider Brief Rydberg Technologies announced the launch of Rydberg Photonics GmbH, a Berlin-based spin-off from the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut focused on delivering compact, micro-integrated photonic engines for the global quantum technology market. The new company builds on over a decade of FBH research to commercialize optical frequency references and hybrid integrated lasers for quantum sensors, clocks, communications, […]
Authority on Magnetic Navigation And Alternative GPS Technologies Joins Q-CTRL
Insider Brief Q-CTRL has appointed Aaron Canciani, a leading expert in magnetic anomaly navigation and former Principal Navigation Engineer at Leidos, as Principal Scientist on its quantum sensing team. Canciani’s research in GPS-denied magnetic navigation laid the foundation for Q-CTRL’s Ironstone Opal system, which has demonstrated quantum advantage and achieved over 100-fold performance gains in […]
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech Expands Product Portfolio
Insider Brief Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech has released QiliSDK, an open-source Python framework that unifies digital, analog, and hybrid quantum algorithm design within a single environment. The SDK serves as the entry point to Qilimanjaro’s multimodal quantum data center, connecting researchers to superconducting QPUs, analog QPUs, and classical HPC systems through the SpeQtrum platform. By supporting […]
Quantum Elements Launches AI-native Platform for Quantum Software and Hardware Development
Insider Brief Quantum Elements, a Los Angeles-based startup backed by QDNL Participations and USC Viterbi, launched from stealth with an AI-native quantum development platform designed to make fault-tolerant quantum computing faster, cheaper, and more accessible. Its Constellation platform integrates agentic AI, natural language prompts, and a proprietary simulation engine to accelerate the creation and testing […]