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Deals•Feb 27, 2026
Quantum eMotion Corp. Acquires SKV Technology Inc., Securing SecureKey Platform
Quantum eMotion Corp. announced it will acquire all shares of SKV Technology Inc., gaining control of the SecureKey platform. The acquisition includes milestone‑based earn‑out payments up to C$7 million and potential royalties up to $15 million, with closing expected around March 2 2026. The deal expands QeM’s quantum‑resilient cybersecurity offerings.
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Deals•Feb 23, 2026
Reliance Global Group Acquires Enquantum Ltd. To Build Post‑Quantum Encryption Platform
Reliance Global Group announced the acquisition of Enquantum Ltd., a quantum‑resilient encryption firm, as the first platform deal under its Scale51 operating model. The transaction gives Reliance majority control (up to 51%) and aims to develop Enquantum into a core...
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Deals•Feb 20, 2026
Photonic Inc. Secures $180M CAD Investment, Appoints New Executive Chair and Directors
Photonic Inc., a quantum photonics company, announced a $180 million CAD investment from a group of investors, prompting the appointment of a new executive chair and board directors. The funding will accelerate product development and expand market presence, marking a...
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Deals•Feb 20, 2026
Welinq and Pasqal Secure €4M France 2030 Funding for Networked Quantum Computing
Welinq and Pasqal announced they have secured €4 million in funding from the French government's France 2030 program to develop networked quantum computing technologies. The funding will support the companies' efforts to advance quantum hardware and software solutions.
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Deals•Feb 14, 2026
Iceberg Quantum Raises $6M Seed Round Led by LocalGlobe
Sydney‑based quantum computing startup Iceberg Quantum announced a $6 million seed round to accelerate its fault‑tolerant Pinnacle architecture. The round was led by LocalGlobe with participation from Blackbird and DCVC. The funding will support development of the architecture that could dramatically...
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Deals•Feb 9, 2026
Leclercq American Capital Invests in SandboxAQ’s Quantum‑AI Cybersecurity Platform
Leclercq American Capital LLC announced a new equity investment in SandboxAQ, a quantum‑AI platform delivering B2B solutions for post‑quantum cybersecurity, advanced simulation, and next‑generation sensing. The undisclosed funding underscores confidence in SandboxAQ’s technology for cryptographic resilience, finance, healthcare, and other...
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Deals•Feb 9, 2026
Reliance Global Group to Acquire 51% Controlling Stake in Enquantum Ltd. For $2.125M
Reliance Global Group announced a definitive agreement to acquire a 51% controlling interest in post‑quantum cybersecurity firm Enquantum Ltd. for $2.125 million, payable in tranches over ten months. The acquisition will be executed through Reliance’s EZRA International Group subsidiary as part...
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Deals•Feb 5, 2026
Kembara Secures €750M First Close for €1B Deep Tech Investment Fund
Kembara announced the first close of its €1 billion European deep‑tech fund, securing €750 million in commitments. The fund will invest up to €40 million in 20 deep‑tech companies at Series B and C stages, aiming to bolster Europe’s deep‑tech ecosystem.
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Two-Step S 2 Mechanism Achieves Insight with Vibrational Strong Coupling (VSC) Studies
Researchers used high‑level ab initio coupled‑cluster methods to resolve the mechanism of the nucleophilic substitution of 1‑phenyl‑2‑trimethylsilylacetylene (PTA) with fluoride under vibrational strong coupling (VSC). The calculations confirm a two‑step S_N2 pathway, revealing previously unreported encounter and product complexes and...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Snowball Ising Machine Achieves Faster Combinatorial Optimisation with 3 Key Advances
Researchers at ETH Zurich introduced Snowball, a digital all‑to‑all Ising machine that combines dual‑mode MCMC spin selection with asynchronous updates. The prototype on an AMD Alveo U250 accelerator achieved an eight‑fold reduction in time‑to‑solution versus state‑of‑the‑art Ising hardware on benchmark...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Superconductivity Achieved in Nanowires Via 5.5m/mT Domain Wall Modulation
Researchers showed that aluminium shells on InAs/EuS nanowires become superconducting only when the EuS layer is in a multi‑domain magnetic state. Scanning SQUID magnetometry and low‑temperature transport revealed that a magnetic domain wall can be shifted at roughly 5.5 µm·mT⁻¹ using...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Advances Quantum Belief Propagation with Messages for Symmetric Q-Ary Channels
Researchers have broadened belief propagation with quantum messages (BPQM) from binary to symmetric q‑ary pure‑state channels with circulant Gram matrices. They derived closed‑form recursions based on Gram‑matrix eigenvalues, yielding explicit BPQM unitaries and analytic fidelity bounds independent of the underlying...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
FormationQ Announces Joint Program with Cavendish Lab, Powered by IonQ’s Platform
The Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and quantum‑software firm FormationQ have launched a joint applied quantum program powered by IonQ’s trapped‑ion platform. The initiative, backed by a $2.5 million investment from FormationQ, will use IonQ Forte’s 32 algorithmic qubits...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Adiabatic Rapid Passage Achieves Low Multiphoton Emission for Quantum Key Distribution
Researchers at IIT Delhi demonstrated that adiabatic rapid passage (ARP) excitation of a negatively charged quantum dot in an elliptical microcavity dramatically lowers multiphoton emission and raises photon indistinguishability. Compared with conventional resonant driving, ARP yields brighter, cleaner single‑photon output....
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Future Cars Shielded From Quantum Hacking with Adaptable Security System
Researchers at the University of Oslo have unveiled an adaptive post‑quantum cryptography framework designed for 6G vehicle‑to‑everything (V2X) networks. By predicting short‑term mobility, channel conditions, weather, and message urgency, the system dynamically selects lattice, code, or hash‑based PQC schemes. A...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Infleqtion Advances Scalable Quantum Computing with Faster, More Reliable Qubit Measurements
Infleqtion, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has achieved 99.93 % reliable nondestructive measurement of neutral‑atom qubits by combining precise readout with continuous cooling. The technique eliminates measurement‑induced decoherence, enabling faster computation cycles and more robust error correction. Published in...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Inference Energy Consumption Diagnosed: LLM Tasks Show 25% Energy Differences
Researchers at the University of Michigan and The ML.ENERGY Initiative conducted a massive measurement campaign across 46 generative AI models, seven tasks, and 1,858 configurations on NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPUs. They discovered order‑of‑magnitude energy differences, with large‑language‑model (LLM) task...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Rényi Entropies: Research Reveals Complete Characterisation of Conditional Entropies
Researchers Rubboli, Haapasalo, and Tomomichel deliver a complete axiomatic characterisation of conditional entropy, proving it must be an exponential average of Rényi entropies weighted by a probability measure. The framework rests on three core axioms—additivity for independent variables, invariance under...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Researchers Reveal Logical Noise Learning From Syndrome Data with 200601 Precision
Researchers from the University of Chicago and the Perimeter Institute have introduced a method to infer logical error channels directly from quantum error‑correction syndrome data using Fourier analysis and compressed‑sensing techniques. They prove necessary and sufficient conditions for learnability and...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Dicke Superposition Probes Reveal N-Qubit Scaling for Resilient Heisenberg Metrology
Researchers from Kuvempu and Bangalore Universities have introduced Dicke‑superposition probes that achieve near‑Heisenberg scaling (quantum Fisher information ≈ N²) for phase estimation. The study shows these probes retain high precision under one‑ and two‑body interaction Hamiltonians while exhibiting superior robustness to...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Quantum Scrambling Shows Exponentially Many Parameter Estimation in System Size
MIT researchers introduced a multiparameter quantum‑sensing protocol that uses quantum scrambling and random Clifford circuits to encode many signals into distinct measurement bit‑strings. The method can estimate an exponentially growing number of non‑commuting, time‑dependent parameters while requiring only a logarithmic...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Fully Exact Module Categories Advance Stability Under Deligne Product for Finite Braided Tensor Categories
Researchers Azat M. Gainutdinov and Robert Laugwitz introduced “fully exact” module categories, a subclass of exact module categories that remains stable under the relative Deligne product. They proved that this class strictly contains invertible and separable module categories and that...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Qcl-Ids Achieves 0.941 Accuracy in Quantum Continual Intrusion Detection Systems
Researchers at Johns Hopkins introduced QCL‑IDS, a quantum‑centric continual‑learning framework for intrusion detection that balances adaptation to new attacks with retention of historic threat knowledge. The system leverages Quantum Fisher Anchors and privacy‑preserved quantum generative replay to achieve mean Attack‑F1...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Fedgraph-Vasp Achieves 0.855 AML Accuracy with Post-Quantum Privacy Preservation
Researchers introduced FedGraph‑VASP, a privacy‑preserving federated graph learning framework that enables virtual asset service providers to jointly detect money‑laundering without sharing raw transaction data. The system exchanges compressed graph embeddings secured with Kyber‑512 key encapsulation and AES‑256‑GCM, delivering quantum‑resistant protection....
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Quantum Computers Move Closer with Light-Based Link Breakthrough
Researchers at IST Austria have successfully up‑converted single microwave photons generated by a superconducting transmon qubit to telecom‑band optical photons. The electro‑optic transducer, based on a lithium‑niobate whisper‑gallery resonator, achieved an internal conversion efficiency of 1.6 × 10⁻³ and a signal‑to‑noise ratio...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Hierarchical Quantum Decoders Achieve Optimality with Tunable Speed and Accuracy Tradeoffs
Researchers introduced a hierarchical family of quantum decoders built on the Lasserre Sum‑of‑Squares (SOS) hierarchy, converting the NP‑hard decoding problem into a sequence of semidefinite programs (SDPs). The approach lets users trade decoding speed for accuracy, with lower‑level SDPs delivering...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Quantum Cryptography Moves Closer with Working BB84 and E91 Protocols
Researchers demonstrated quantum key distribution (QKD) on IBM's superconducting quantum platform by implementing the BB84 and E91 protocols with SX‑gate operations. Using a 133‑qubit device and 128‑shot runs, they achieved zero error for BB84 and a 0.094 error rate for...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Bravyi-König Theorem Achieves Limit for -Dimensional Floquet Codes and Stabilisers
Scientists at QuSoft and CWI have proved that the Bravyi‑König theorem, which limits logical operations in topological stabiliser codes, also holds for Floquet codes constructed from locally conjugate stabiliser groups. They defined these dynamic codes, showed that constant‑depth logical gates...
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Deals•Feb 2, 2026
Diraq Secures $20M Equity Investment From Australia's National Reconstruction Fund
Diraq, an Australian quantum computing startup, secured a $20 million equity investment from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) to accelerate its utility‑scale silicon‑based quantum computer development. The funding will support advanced manufacturing and aims to deliver a quantum computer with...
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Deals•Jan 29, 2026
IonQ Completes Acquisition of Skyloom Global Corp.
IonQ completed its acquisition of Skyloom Global Corp., a move to strengthen its quantum networking capabilities. The deal, first announced in November 2025, brings Skyloom’s expertise in free‑space optical communications into IonQ’s portfolio, advancing its roadmap for distributed quantum entanglement...
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Deals•Jan 20, 2026
D-Wave Acquires Quantum Circuits Inc., Adding Gate-Model Capability to Its Annealing Portfolio
D‑Wave announced the completion of its acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc., merging its annealing quantum computers with Quantum Circuits' dual‑rail gate‑model qubit technology. The deal creates the first dual‑platform quantum computing company, accelerating the rollout of error‑corrected gate‑model systems alongside...
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Deals•Jan 17, 2026
Quantum Computing Inc. Secures $22M Stalking Horse Bid for Luminar Assets
Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) has submitted a $22 million stalking‑horse bid to acquire the remaining assets of Luminar Technologies, pending court approval in Luminar’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. The acquisition aims to integrate Luminar’s LiDAR technology into QCi’s photonic chip and packaging...
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