UKRI Maps £38.6 Billion R&D Budget, Commits £1 Billion to Quantum
Insider Brief UK Research and Innovation has outlined how it will deploy a record £38.6 billion government settlement over four years, aligning funding to a single mission focused on advancing knowledge, improving lives, and driving UK economic growth. UKRI’s targeted investment explicitly labeled for “Digital and Technologies: Quantum Technologies” totals £1.013 billion over the spending […]
Google Opens Its Advanced Willow Chip to UK Researchers in Search For Practical Uses
Insider Brief Google and the UK government will give researchers access to the company’s Willow quantum chip to identify potential real-world applications, according to the BBC. Scientists can submit proposals and work with Google and the National Quantum Computing Centre to design and run experiments on the hardware. The partnership comes as global competition in […]
UK And Germany Deepen Science And Tech Ties With £14 Million to Unlock Quantum’s Vast Potential
Insider Brief The UK and Germany announced new joint initiatives to expand quantum technology collaboration, including shared funding, research standards, and support for commercialisation efforts. The countries will launch a £6 million joint quantum R&D call in 2026, invest £8 million in Fraunhofer UK’s applied photonics centre, and sign an agreement between national metrology institutes […]
UK Pledges £2 Billion For Quantum Innovation
Insider Brief The UK government has announced a £2 billion quantum technology programme, including advanced procurement of large-scale quantum computers, to accelerate commercialization, economic growth, and national capability. The initiative integrates R&D, manufacturing, and procurement through the ProQure programme, aiming to deploy prototype systems and scale them into national infrastructure by the early 2030s. Additional […]
Alice & Bob Accelerates Quantum Error Correction with NVIDIA CUDA-Q
Insider Brief Alice & Bob has achieved a 9.25x speedup in quantum error correction decoding using GPU-accelerated simulation through NVIDIA CUDA-Q, reducing runtime from 18 hours 2 minutes on CPU to 1 hour 57 minutes on GPU for simulated syndrome data of its Elevator Codes architecture. The GPU-accelerated approach maintained identical logical error performance to […]
SEEQC Reports First Quantum Computer with Integrated Qubit Control on a Chip at Millikelvin Temperatures
Insider Brief SEEQC reported in Nature Electronics the first demonstration of a full-stack superconducting quantum computing system with integrated digital control logic operating alongside qubits at millikelvin temperatures, addressing a key barrier to scalable architectures. The system integrates superconducting digital electronics with a five-qubit processor using Single Flux Quantum pulses, achieving high gate fidelities above […]
BTQ Technologies Implements BIP 360 Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin Transactions on Testnet
Insider Brief BTQ Technologies has released Bitcoin Quantum testnet v0.3.0 featuring the first working implementation of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 360, a quantum-resistant Pay-to-Merkle-Root output type that was merged into Bitcoin’s official proposal repository earlier this year. The implementation includes full P2MR consensus with SegWit version 2 outputs, five Dilithium post-quantum signature opcodes enabled in tapscript […]
Researchers Find Ways to Stretch, Blur And Reverse Quantum Time Flow
Insider Brief A study in Physical Review X reports quantum control protocols that can suppress or invert a system’s “arrow of time,” enabling processes that appear to run backward and offering new approaches to energy extraction and quantum state preparation. The researchers use measurement-driven feedback and engineered control Hamiltonians to cancel or overcompensate for measurement […]
Horizon Quantum Goes Public via SPAC, Raises $120 Million
Insider Brief Horizon Quantum completed a SPAC merger with dMY Squared Technology Group, securing about $120 million and listing on Nasdaq under the ticker “HQ” to expand its quantum software business. The company is focused on building hardware-agnostic software infrastructure, including its Triple Alpha development environment, to enable developers to run applications across different quantum […]
Xanadu Quantum SPAC Deal Approved, Targets $302 Million Raise
Insider Brief Crane Harbor shareholders approved the proposed business combination with Xanadu Quantum Technologies, clearing a key step toward the company going public. The combined company is expected to begin trading on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker “XNDU” following a planned March 26, 2026 closing. The transaction is expected to provide […]