Julien Camirand Lemire (Nord Quantique): One Cavity, One Error-Corrected Qubit
Julien Camirand Lemire, co-founder and CEO of Nord Quantique, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Julien discusses Nord Quantique‘s bosonic code approach, which uses microwave photons in superconducting cavities to achieve quantum error correction without large qubit overhead, including their GKP and Tesseract code demonstrations and a quantum error correction gain that has more than doubled […]
Quantum Industry Coalition Highlights Funding Priorities For The National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act
By Alexandra Kelley Insider Brief The Quantum Industry Coalition urged congressional leaders to pass the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act this year through the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. The coalition called for higher funding authorizations, support for quantum testbeds and technology centers, workforce development and sustained government funding for commercially available quantum hardware and […]
Infleqtion Tests Optical Atomic Clock During US Navy Exercise
Insider Brief Infleqtion demonstrated its Tiqker optical atomic clock during the U.S. Navy’s Maritime Big Play Pacific exercise, operating the system aboard the support vessel RV Merlin for more than two weeks. The demonstration evaluated Tiqker’s precision timing capabilities under maritime conditions, including temperature changes and sustained vibration, as part of the MBP-P and BARB-26 […]
SUNY Chancellor Highlights Quantum and Energy Research at Stony Brook
Insider Brief SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. visited Stony Brook University to review research across quantum computing, energy, healthcare, artificial intelligence and environmental science. During the visit, King toured the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center, attended a research expo and met with faculty working on projects including distributed quantum processing, nuclear energy, battery […]
Netpoleon India Partners With QNu Labs on Quantum-Safe Security
Insider Brief Netpoleon India has partnered with QNu Labs to expand access to quantum-safe cybersecurity solutions and support post-quantum cryptography readiness among Indian enterprises. The collaboration combines QNu Labs‘ QShield 2.0 platform for cryptographic risk profiling, operations and governance with Netpoleon India’s network of channel partners and system integrators. The companies aim to help organisations […]
Speakers Point to Risk Appetite And Capital as UK Deep-Tech Bottlenecks at City Quantum & AI Summit
Insider Brief A defense panel at the sixth City Quantum & AI Summit, held at Mansion House in London on October 7, 2026, said the main barrier to getting AI and quantum technologies to UK forces is institutional risk appetite rather than procurement rules. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, former Chief of the Defence Staff, said […]
Lumen Announces AI Networking, Quantum Research and PQC Plans
Insider Brief Lumen Technologies announced three initiatives focused on energy-aware AI networking with Emerald AI, research into quantum connectivity with The Ohio State University, and post-quantum security capabilities through its Fortinet-based SASE solution. Lumen and Emerald AI are exploring a pilot to route AI inference workloads to locations based on power availability, cost, latency, security […]
Alice & Bob Estimates 22,593 Qubits to Break RSA-2048
Insider Brief Alice & Bob researchers estimate that running Shor’s algorithm against RSA-2048 would require 22,593 physical cat qubits and 3.14 days on fault-tolerant superconducting quantum hardware. The study estimates that attacking the 256-bit elliptic-curve discrete logarithm problem would require 29,588 physical qubits and 61.8 minutes, with the results based on cat-qubit hardware, LDPC-cat codes […]
E.ON and Qoro Test Hybrid Quantum Computing for Energy Scheduling
Insider Brief Qoro, E.ON and the UK National Quantum Computing Centre developed a proof of concept using hybrid quantum-classical computing to improve peer-to-peer energy transaction scheduling. The team used Qoro’s Divi SDK and scheduler to decompose large grid optimisation problems into subproblems of up to 50 qubits, reducing quantum hardware execution time by approximately threefold […]
Niels Bohr Institute Spinout Pelagic Systems Targets Quantum Hardware Control
Insider Brief Pelagic Systems, a spinout from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme at the Niels Bohr Institute, is launching software for calibrating, monitoring and controlling quantum hardware. The company says its platform has been demonstrated on superconducting quantum processors, where it can characterize and recalibrate key processor parameters on millisecond timescales. Supported by […]