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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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News•Feb 20, 2026
Bloomberg Reports: Quantum Startup Pasqal Seeks €200 Million to Fuel Growth
French quantum computing startup Pasqal announced it is in talks to raise €200 million, valuing the company at over $1 billion pre‑money. The round, led by undisclosed investors, would fund the expansion of its neutral‑atom quantum processors and full‑stack hardware‑software platform. Co‑founder...
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News•Feb 20, 2026
Coherent Emitters Unlock Brighter, Correlated Light Sources
Researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong have demonstrated squeezed superradiant lasing in a quantum many‑body system by coupling a cavity to interacting spin‑½ emitters modeled with the Lipkin‑Meshkov‑Glick Hamiltonian. Their analysis shows that spin‑squeezing generated through coherent all‑to‑all...
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News•Feb 20, 2026
Entanglement Boosts Machine Learning of Quantum Systems
Researchers at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona introduced an entanglement‑assisted learning strategy for quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs). By coupling a randomly initialized auxiliary qubit during training, the method overcomes plateaus and local minima that limit QGAN scalability. In a 72‑qubit...
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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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News•Feb 18, 2026
Quantum Computer Flaws Pinpointed Using Novel Energy Decay Spectroscopy Technique
Scientists at the SQMS Center and Fermilab unveiled a fixed‑frequency energy‑decay spectroscopy method that characterises two‑level system (TLS) defects in superconducting transmon qubits without tuning the qubit frequency. By repeatedly preparing the second excited state and analysing correlated decay of...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
Faster Quantum Calculations Unlock Efficient Molecular Ground State Preparation
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center and Ruhr University Bochum introduced a protocol that merges the ExcitationSolve optimizer with energy‑sorting and one‑variational‑parameter couple‑exchange (OVP‑CEO) operators to streamline variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) ground‑state preparation. The method selects all relevant operators in...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
New Optimisation Methods Tackle Complex Logistical and Network Challenges
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology introduced Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation (QUBO) formulations for core location‑science problems such as the p‑Median and Fixed‑Charge Facility Location problems. They derived a tight bound for the penalty parameter, guaranteeing equivalence between the QUBO...
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News•Feb 17, 2026
Light-Matter Coupling Creates New Quasiparticles for Advanced Physics Exploration
Researchers have demonstrated strong coupling of electrically tunable dipolar excitons in a gated bilayer MoS₂ device integrated with a one‑dimensional photonic crystal. The hybrid system creates composite polariton quasiparticles, with three distinct polariton branches observed as the applied electric field...
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News•Feb 17, 2026
New Materials Exhibit Superconductivity After Surface Functionalisation with Common Elements
A first‑principles screening of 128 out‑of‑plane ordered double‑transition‑metal MXenes identified 32 compounds that are mechanically, dynamically and thermodynamically stable and predicted to be superconductors. Transition temperatures range from 0.1 K to a record 52 K, with Mo₂ScN₂O₂ delivering the highest T₍c₎ and...
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News•Feb 16, 2026
Neural Networks Boost Accuracy of Quantum Simulations for Complex Materials
Researchers at ETH Zürich have introduced a neural‑based selected configuration (NQS‑SC) method that outperforms the traditional NQS‑VMC approach for electronic structure calculations. In benchmark tests on molecules with strong static correlation, NQS‑SC reduced ground‑state energies by an average of 0.027 Hartree...
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News•Feb 16, 2026
Atoms and Molecules Combined Unlock Faster Quantum Entanglement Generation
Researchers have unveiled a hybrid quantum platform that pairs polar molecules with neutral‑atom Rydberg ancillae to achieve fast, high‑fidelity entanglement. By exploiting a resonant dipole‑dipole exchange between molecular rotations and atomic Rydberg transitions, the scheme delivers a controlled‑phase gate operating...
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News•Feb 14, 2026
Quantum Delta’s QuantWare Launches Foundry Services to Lower Quantum Chip Barriers
QuantWare, the Delft‑based spin‑out of TU Delft/QuTech, launched its Foundry Services on December 1, 2022, offering third‑party access to its superconducting quantum‑chip fabrication line. The service provides external designers with industry‑leading processes, cutting the cost of quantum hardware to roughly one‑tenth of...
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News•Feb 14, 2026
Grainger Illinois PQN Awarded Prize at UN International Year of Quantum Science & Technology Closing
The Public Quantum Network (PQN) received the inaugural Continental Quantum City Prize for North & Central America at the United Nations International Year of Quantum Science and Technology closing ceremony. Launched in November 2023 at Urbana’s Free Library, PQN is...
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News•Feb 14, 2026
Clustrauth API by Smart Banner Hub Offers Quantum-Safe Document Authentication with Flexible Pricing
Smart Banner Hub introduced the Clustrauth API, a REST service that provides NIST FIPS 204‑compliant, quantum‑safe document signing using a hybrid Ed25519 and ML‑DSA signature scheme. The API allows developers to sign files up to 50 MB with three lines of code...
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News•Feb 14, 2026
CO.LAB Receives LaunchTN Grant to Cultivate Quantum Commercialization Pathways Across Tennessee
CO.LAB secured a $1.2 million Launch Tennessee grant to launch the Quantum Activation Series, a statewide effort that begins March 12 at the University of Tennessee‑Chattanooga. The program will convene researchers, entrepreneurs and industry leaders to accelerate the commercialization of quantum research...
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News•Feb 14, 2026
NSF Invests Up To $100 Million Over Five Years in National Quantum Research Network
The National Science Foundation announced a $100 million, five‑year National Quantum and Nanotechnology Infrastructure (NQNI) program. The initiative will establish up to 16 open‑access research sites offering advanced fabrication and characterization tools for quantum information science, biotechnology, AI, and semiconductor development....
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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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News•Feb 10, 2026
Quantum Light Conversion Mapped with Unprecedented Precision Using New Technique
Researchers at the University of Bath introduced two‑tone tomography, a novel interferometric method that fully characterises quantum frequency converters. By probing devices with a bichromatic signal and analysing spectral interference, the technique reconstructs the complete complex spectral transfer function—including both...
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News•Feb 10, 2026
Quantum AI Shortcut Could Speed up Language Models with Reduced Complexity
Researchers introduced Quantum Attention by Overlap Interference (QSA), a variational quantum implementation of self‑attention that encodes non‑linearity through quantum‑state overlap interference. By expressing the Rényi‑1/2 cross‑entropy loss as an observable, QSA eliminates the costly decoding step required in conventional quantum...
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News•Feb 10, 2026
New Technique Unlocks Key to Simulating Complex Molecular Behaviour Accurately
Researchers introduced the ensemble ADAPT‑VQA, a purification‑based algorithm that determines ensemble N‑representability of p‑body reduced density matrices by embedding ensembles into pure states on an extended Hilbert space. The method iteratively applies unitary transformations to minimise the Hilbert‑Schmidt distance between...
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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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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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