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Q-Day Knowledge Center & Q-Day Framework and Estimator

Q-Day Knowledge Center - Your complete guide to understanding, forecasting, and preparing for quantum decryption ...

Quantum Hardware Companies and Roadmaps Comparison

With so many quantum hardware roadmaps landing recently, I’ve updated my running comparison of the ...

Getting Started With Quantum Readiness and PQC Migration

Getting Started With Quantum Readiness and PQC Migration ...

D-Wave Targets U.S. Government With New Quantum Unit

D-Wave Quantum Inc. has launched a dedicated business unit to accelerate quantum adoption across U.S. government agencies. Led by newly appointed VP Jack Sears Jr., a defense contracting veteran, the ...

Linking Two Quantum Networks

A new paper in Nature Photonics by Natalia Herrera Valencia et al. (2025) reports a prototype quantum network that connects two previously separate networks into a single eight-user system. In ...

White House “Genesis Mission” Links Supercomputers, AI & Quantum

The White House has launched the Genesis Mission, an ambitious Department of Energy initiative to integrate America’s top supercomputers, AI systems, quantum computers, and scientific instruments into a unified "discovery ...

Quantum Funding Surge: Firgun Ventures’ $70 M Quantum Tech VC Round

Investor confidence in quantum technology is reaching new heights, as evidenced by London-based Firgun Ventures announcing a $70 million first close of its new quantum-focused venture fund. Firgun’s fund, which is ...

Jülich Simulates a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer on an Exascale Supercomputer

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich have fully simulated a universal 50-qubit quantum computer using Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER. This achievement, requiring on the order of 2 petabytes of memory, breaks ...

IBM and Cisco Want to Network Fault‑Tolerant quantum computers

IBM and Cisco’s joint announcement this week is easy to misread as another “quantum + internet” headline. It isn’t. The two companies are laying out a step‑by‑step program to turn ...

OCP Initiative to Integrate Quantum Computers into Data Centers

The Open Compute Project (OCP) has launched a new workstream to prepare conventional data centers for co-locating quantum computers alongside classical HPC systems. Announced at OCP’s Global Summit, this initiative ...

U.S. Panel Urges a “Quantum First” Goal by 2030 to Outpace China

In a bid to secure the technological high ground, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission - a bipartisan federal advisory panel - has issued a bold recommendation: America should ...

Palo Alto Networks CEO Warns of Nation-State Quantum Threat by 2029

Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, has issued a stark warning that hostile nation-states may possess cryptanalytically relevant quantum computers by 2029 – or even sooner. Speaking on the ...

Full-Photonic Quantum Teleportation Achieved at Telecom Wavelengths

In a breakthrough for quantum communication, a research team led by Tim Strobel has demonstrated quantum teleportation between two remote quantum dot systems at standard fiber-optic (1550 nm) telecommunications wavelengthsquantumzeitgeist.com ...

Microsoft Brings Post-Quantum Crypto to Windows 11 and .NET

Microsoft has announced the general availability of NIST’s post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms in core Windows and .NET platforms. As of the November 2025 update, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 ...

China’s “Photonic Quantum Chip” Is Impressive. But It’s Also a Case Study in Quantum-Washing

Every few months, a headline pops up proclaiming the dawn of a new quantum breakthrough - often accompanied by phrases like “1000x faster than classical computers,” “industry first,” “quantum chip,” ...

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