NQFF and Qolab Collaborate on Wafer-Scale Cryogenic Filters for Quantum Scaling
National Quantum Federated Foundry (NQFF) and Qolab have launched a research partnership to create integrated cryogenic low‑pass filters on silicon wafers for superconducting and spin‑qubit processors. By moving from discrete, bulky filters to wafer‑scale fabrication, the collaboration aims to shrink the cryogenic footprint and support scaling from dozens to millions of qubits. The filters, leveraging NQFF’s nanofabrication network and Qolab’s system expertise, will be deployed for testing at UCLA. The effort is backed by Singapore’s National Quantum Office under its national quantum strategy.
Quantum Elements Secures Additional Funding for AI-Driven Development Platform
Quantum Elements, a Los Angeles quantum‑software startup, announced a new SAFE financing round that includes QDNL Participations, Quantacet, R‑Squared Ventures and Firgun Ventures. The capital will accelerate development of Constellation, an AI‑driven platform that creates digital twins of quantum circuits...
Tectonic Labs Releases PQ Wallet and Post-Quantum Audit Services for EVM Chains
Tectonic Labs unveiled PQ Wallet, a browser‑based EVM extension that supports Falcon‑512 quantum‑resistant signatures, available for Chrome, Firefox, and via a command‑line interface for developers. The wallet offers two operating modes: a “Quantum‑secure” mode that signs transactions with post‑quantum keys...
MerLin: Framework for Differentiable Photonic Quantum Machine Learning
MerLin 0.3, an open‑source framework from Quandela, brings photonic and hybrid quantum machine learning into standard AI pipelines. Built on the Perceval SDK, it uses Strong Linear Optical Simulation to compute exact quantum states inside a PyTorch‑native environment via a QuantumLayer...
Quantum and Games: The Shift Developers Can’t Afford to Ignore
Quantum computing is poised to reshape game development by tackling the most complex design problems, not by running games in real time. Developers are already leveraging quantum algorithms for procedural generation, rule‑validation across massive worlds, and hard‑to‑find bug elimination, feeding...
SEALSQ Increases Strategic Investment in EeroQ to Advance “Quantum Made in USA” Strategy
SEALSQ Corp has finalized a second strategic investment in U.S. quantum‑hardware firm EeroQ, deepening its “Quantum Made in USA” agenda. EeroQ’s electron‑on‑superfluid‑helium (eHe) platform, highlighted by the Wonder Lake chip, can control up to one million qubits using fewer than...
Tower Semiconductor and Xanadu Industrialize Silicon Photonic Quantum Stack
Tower Semiconductor and quantum‑computing startup Xanadu have broadened their partnership to industrialize a silicon‑photonic quantum stack. Leveraging Tower’s PH18 200 mm silicon photonics platform, the joint effort will transition Xanadu’s low‑loss SiN waveguide and integrated photodiode designs from prototype to high‑volume...
Quantum eMotion to Transition Trading Operations to NYSE American Exchange
Quantum eMotion Corp. received approval to list its common shares on NYSE American under the ticker QNC, with trading slated to start around February 24, 2026. The move will see the company exit the OTCQB market while retaining listings on the TSX Venture...
AQT Integrates IBEX Q1 Trapped-Ion QPU Into Scaleway Sovereign Cloud
Alpine Quantum Technologies and Scaleway have integrated AQT’s IBEX Q1 trapped‑ion quantum processor into Scaleway’s sovereign Quantum‑as‑a‑Service platform. The QPU, featuring all‑to‑all qubit connectivity and high gate fidelity, is accessible via open‑source frameworks without reservation during set time windows. Hosted...
MicroAlign Secures €2.5M ($3M USD) EIC Funding for Industrialization of Quantum Fiber Arrays
MicroAlign has secured a €2.5 million Accelerator Grant from the European Innovation Council to industrialize its high‑precision quantum fiber arrays. The funding will shift production from pilot‑scale to high‑volume manufacturing, addressing a critical bottleneck in photonic quantum computing supply chains. Its...
IBM Ventures Invests in SQK and QodeX Quantum for Specialized Software Development
IBM Ventures announced strategic investments in two Alchemist Chicago accelerator graduates, SQK and QodeX Quantum, to accelerate quantum software development. SQK is creating hybrid quantum‑classical algorithms for faster, more accurate medical image reconstruction, while QodeX Quantum is building a platform...
Palm Beach County Receives $1M Federal Funding to Expand Quantum Ecosystem
The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County secured a $1,031,000 federal grant to coordinate regional quantum technology initiatives and workforce training. Palm Beach State College also received over $2 million to launch a Quantum Innovation Center that will serve as...
An Italian Court Annuls a Previous €47 Million ($55.6M USD) Award to IBM for Providing a Quantum Computer at the...
In December 2024 the Campania region launched a €62.1 million tender for a quantum computer at the University of Salerno. After extending the deadline by one week, IBM submitted a late bid and was awarded the contract in September 2025 for...
Pasqal Delivers Italy’s First Neutral Atom Quantum Computer
Pasqal has delivered a 140‑qubit neutral‑atom quantum computer to Italy’s CINECA supercomputing centre, marking the nation’s first on‑site neutral‑atom system. The QPU is tightly coupled with Leonardo, one of the world’s most powerful pre‑exascale supercomputers, creating a hybrid HPC‑quantum architecture....
Kipu Quantum Launches Rimay for Industrial Quantum-Enhanced Machine Learning
Kipu Quantum announced the general availability of Rimay, a quantum‑enhanced feature extraction service that plugs into existing classical machine‑learning pipelines. The platform leverages digitized counterdiabatic driving on IBM’s 156‑qubit processors to capture higher‑order data correlations inaccessible to classical algorithms. Early...
Comcast, Classiq, and AMD Demonstrate Quantum-Optimized Internet Resilience
Comcast, Classiq, and AMD completed a technical trial that used quantum algorithms to improve global internet routing resilience. The experiment tackled the NP‑hard problem of finding vertex‑disjoint backup paths by applying the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) in a hybrid...
Delta Gold Technologies and Penn State Partner on Scalable Gold-Based Quantum Materials Research
Delta Gold Technologies has entered a three‑year research sponsorship and exclusive licensing deal with Penn State University to develop gold‑nanocluster quantum materials. The collaboration, also involving the University of Toronto, demonstrates tunable spin polarization ranging from 7 % to 40 % and...
C12 Demonstrates Tunable Metal–Insulator Transition in Ultra-Clean Carbon Nanotubes
C12 and collaborators published a Nature Communications study showing an electrically controlled metal‑insulator transition in ultra‑clean, suspended carbon nanotubes. Using a 15‑gate “keyboard” architecture, they tuned an energy gap from 200 µeV to 30 meV, demonstrating a synthetic charge‑density wave that mimics...
Singapore Budget 2026: S$37 Billion (US$29.3 Billion) RIE 2030 Plan Anchors Quantum as a Strategic Pillar
Singapore’s 2026 Budget unveiled a S$37 billion Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2030 plan, a 32% increase that keeps R&D spending at roughly 1% of GDP. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong highlighted quantum technology as a strategic growth pillar, announcing the country will...
Nu Quantum Opens Trapped-Ion Networking Laboratory in Cambridge
Nu Quantum has opened a dedicated trapped‑ion networking laboratory in Cambridge, the first industrial R&D facility of its kind in Europe. The lab doubles the company’s research capacity and serves as the primary testbed for its Entanglement Fabric roadmap, moving...
QuEra 2026 Survey: 62% of Organizations Face Classical Limits as Production Deployment Stalls
QuEra Computing released the first part of its 2026 Quantum Readiness Survey, revealing a pronounced "quantum execution gap" between experimentation and production. While 62% of surveyed firms report hitting moderate to critical classical computing limits, only 13% have moved quantum...
QUICHE Project: UK–Germany Consortium to Integrate Quantum Workflows Into ORCA Software
The QUICHE project, a UK‑Germany partnership funded by Innovate UK and Germany’s ZIM programme, aims to embed quantum chemistry workflows into the widely used ORCA software. The consortium—Quantum Motion, FACCTs, and Riverlane—will develop automated translation of chemical systems into optimized quantum...
Quantum Motion Establishes European Subsidiary in San Sebastian
Quantum Motion has opened a European subsidiary in San Sebastian, Spain, occupying a 1,500 m² facility in the nanoGUNE Quantum Tower. The new site will develop silicon‑spin qubits and monolithic quantum‑classical chips using 300 mm CMOS wafer lines, emphasizing cryogenic control electronics to...
Infleqtion Advances to Phase 3 of Wellcome Leap Q4Bio Challenge for Precision Oncology
Infleqtion, together with the University of Chicago and MIT, has entered Phase 3 of the Wellcome Leap Q4Bio Challenge, securing $2 million for a 12‑month validation of quantum‑enabled biomarker discovery. The effort focuses on using the hybrid HRQAOA algorithm to select predictive...
Who’s News: Leadership Updates at IQM, IonQ, Q.ANT, Haiqu, and More
Quantum‑technology firms announced a wave of leadership changes in early February 2026. IQM moved to a single‑CEO model with co‑founder Jan Goetz taking the helm and added COO Søren Hein to steer global expansion. IonQ bolstered its senior team by hiring Domenico Di Mola...
Quantum Machines to Establish R&D Hub at Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
Quantum Machines has signed an agreement with the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park to launch a flagship R&D hub in Chicago. Operating from a 2,000‑square‑foot on‑ramp lab, the center will deploy the OPX1000 modular control platform to co‑design hardware and...
SQC Launches Quantum Twins Simulator and Reports 15,000-Qubit Register Fabrication
Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) unveiled Quantum Twins™, an analogue quantum simulator built on a 15,000‑qubit silicon quantum‑dot array fabricated with 0.13 nm precision. The platform demonstrates controllable on‑site interaction (U) and tunnel coupling (t) across a 100 × 150 lattice, achieving U/t ratios...
QT Sense Secures €4M ($4.7M USD) for Nanodiamond-Based Cellular Sensing Platform
QT Sense, a Dutch biotech startup, closed a €4 million seed round led by Cottonwood Technology Fund, supplemented by an ONCO‑Q grant and the Quantum Forward Challenge. The capital will accelerate development of Quantum Nuova, a nanodiamond‑based quantum‑sensing platform that provides real‑time,...
Welinq Releases Commercial Entangled Photon Pair Source Following First Sale
Welinq has launched its first commercial rack‑mounted Entangled Photon Pair Source, delivering the initial unit to a leading European research institution. The device operates at room temperature, fits a standard 19‑inch rack, and emits dual‑wavelength photons—telecom C‑band for low‑loss fiber...
South Carolina Establishes University-Led Applied Quantum Projects in Transition to Execution Phase
South Carolina has moved its quantum technology agenda from a state‑level coordination model to university‑driven execution, backed by a $15 million legislative appropriation. The University of South Carolina launched the Applied Quantum for Space and Energy Lab to integrate quantum sensing...
Zapata Secures Global Patent for Quantum Intermediate Representation Interoperability Framework
Zapata Quantum has secured a worldwide patent for its Quantum Intermediate Representation (QIR) across the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel and Australia. The QIR acts as a hardware‑agnostic translation layer, similar to LLVM, enabling a single quantum program to run...
EU Allocates €50M ($59M USD) to SUPREME Consortium for Superconducting Quantum Industrialization
The European Union has committed €50 million—half from EU funds and half from national agencies—to the SUPREME consortium, led by Finland's VTT, to industrialize superconducting quantum technologies. The three‑and‑a‑half‑year program targets Technology Readiness Level 6 and Manufacturing Readiness Level 6, culminating...
EPB Launches Quantum Computing Fellowship Supported by $4 Million NIST Grant
EPB in Chattanooga has launched a Quantum Computing Fellowship backed by a $4 million grant from NIST. The eight‑person inaugural cohort will train on IonQ’s Forte Enterprise system, a 36‑qubit trapped‑ion quantum computer installed at EPB’s downtown Quantum Center. Developed with...
QuEra and Roadrunner Venture Studios Establish $4M Quantum Testbed in New Mexico
QuEra Computing and Roadrunner Venture Studios have signed a $4 million partnership to build a neutral‑atom quantum testbed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The effort, part of the state’s $300 million quantum‑economy investment, will create a Photonics and Optics Testing Center and a...
Quobly Establishes Canadian Subsidiary to Accelerate Silicon Spin Qubit Industrialization
Quobly, the Grenoble‑based silicon quantum processor developer, has launched a subsidiary in Sherbrooke, Quebec to embed itself in the North American quantum ecosystem. The new hub will collaborate with DistriQ, C2MI and the Université de Sherbrooke to accelerate cryogenic electronics,...
Spain Invests €9.75M ($11.6M USD) in Nu Quantum to Establish Distributed Quantum Networking Hub
Spanish Government, via the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation, is injecting €9.75 million into Nu Quantum as part of its €60 million Series A round, establishing a Madrid subsidiary focused on industrializing quantum networking. The subsidiary will manufacture the Quantum Networking Unit, a...
Stanford Researchers Develop Cavity-Array Microscope for Parallel Atom-Array Interfacing
Stanford physicists Jon Simon and Adam Shaw unveiled a cavity‑array microscope that reads out individual neutral‑atom qubits in parallel. The macro‑scale resonator, equipped with a microlens array, creates over 40 tightly focused optical modes, each strongly coupled to a single...
Numana Commissions Kirq Quantum Communication Testbed in Quebec City
Numana has commissioned the third Kirq quantum communication testbed site in Quebec City, completing a regional loop that also includes Montreal and Sherbrooke. The facility, hosted at the Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL‑ULaval) and the National Optics Institute...
Qunova Launches HI-VQE Chemistry Algorithm on AWS Marketplace for Braket Integration
Qunova Computing has released its HI‑VQE chemistry algorithm on the AWS Marketplace, integrating it with Amazon Braket. The hardware‑agnostic solution runs on trapped‑ion, superconducting and neutral‑atom processors from providers such as IonQ, IQM, QuEra, AQT and Rigetti. HI‑VQE’s “handover” iteration...
QMill: Projecting Verifiable Quantum Advantage via 48-Qubit NISQ Algorithms
QMill announced a 48‑qubit NISQ algorithm that reaches verifiable quantum advantage at 99.94% gate fidelity, far below the 200‑qubit, 99.99% benchmark traditionally required. Numerical simulations show the implementation outpaces the El Capitan exascale supercomputer, delivering a six‑fold error‑tolerance improvement. The algorithm’s...
ZenaTech Advances Proprietary Quantum Hardware Platform for Defense and Government Sectors
ZenaTech announced progress on its proprietary quantum computing hardware, targeting a five‑qubit prototype for U.S. defense and government use by late 2026. The platform will process high‑volume data from ZenaDrone swarms, delivering real‑time decision support for ISR missions. Integration with...
Arqit Launches ‘Encryption Intelligence’ to Automate Discovery for Post-Quantum Migration
Arqit Quantum has launched Encryption Intelligence (EI), an automated SaaS platform that inventories an organization’s cryptographic assets across cloud, OT and legacy systems. The tool identifies obsolete algorithms and protocols, providing real‑time visibility to accelerate post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) migration and...
Chicago State University Launches Illinois’ First Public University Quantum and Semiconductor Credentials
Chicago State University has introduced Illinois’ first public‑university quantum and semiconductor credentials, offering a Minor and Certificate in Quantum Information Science & Engineering and a Certificate in Semiconductor Technology and Manufacturing. The programs, approved by the Illinois Board of Higher...
Microsoft Opens Applications for 2026 Quantum Pioneers Program Targeting Measurement-Based Computing
Microsoft announced the 2026 Quantum Pioneers Program, a competitive research grant aimed at advancing measurement‑based quantum computing (MBQC). Up to five academic proposals will receive up to $200,000 each for a 12‑month project starting August 2026. The program focuses on...
IBM Releases Qiskit v2.3 with Expanded C API and Fault-Tolerant Primitives
IBM has launched Qiskit SDK version 2.3, emphasizing tighter integration with high‑performance computing and fault‑tolerant compilation pipelines. The update expands the C API with new QkDag and QkTarget objects, allowing custom transpiler passes in C, and introduces Rust‑driven performance gains...
Microsoft Releases Open-Source Quantum Development Tools for Error Correction and Chemistry
Microsoft unveiled an updated, open‑source Quantum Development Kit that integrates with VS Code, GitHub Copilot, and supports Q#, OpenQASM, Qiskit, and Cirq, enabling seamless movement from local simulation to Azure cloud execution. The release highlights two new domain libraries: QDK for Chemistry,...
Montana State University’s QCORE Secures $31.5 Million AFRL Contract for Quantum Infrastructure
Montana State University’s Quantum Collaborative Research and Education (QCORE) facility secured a $31.5 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to expand quantum infrastructure, including test beds for superconducting and photonic quantum computers, cryogenic labs, and secure network systems. The...
Nexus Launches Global Platform for Verified Quantum and Deep-Tech Investment
Nexus unveiled a global platform, built with Global Quantum Intelligence, to connect quantum and deep‑tech startups with verified investors, adding a technical verification layer that audits claims and benchmarks performance. The service, already hosting over 45 companies and $350 million in...
SpinQ Technology Secures Hundreds of Millions of RMB in Series C Funding for Superconducting Scale-Up
SpinQ Technology announced a Series C round that raised hundreds of millions of RMB, earmarked for scaling its superconducting quantum chip line and advancing error‑correction, measurement, and control hardware toward a 100‑qubit processor. The funding supports a dual‑track strategy: exporting portable,...
Europe Launches €50 Million ($58.4 Million USD) ‘Photonics for Quantum’ (P4Q) Pilot Line to Industrialize Quantum Photonic Chips
Europe has launched the €50 million Photonics for Quantum (P4Q) pilot line, a joint EU and national effort coordinated by the University of Twente to industrialize quantum photonic chips for computing, sensing, and secure communications. The consortium of 29 partners will...
