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What’s Happening in Quantum — and What It Means
EY Installed a Quantum Computer in Toronto. Nobody Will Say What It Is.
The regulation behind Europe's €30 billion AI Gigafactories also rewired the EU's quantum strategy. The institutional convergence has consequences that the AI headlines buried ...
Europe’s Biggest AI Sovereignty Bet Had a Quantum Strategy Buried Inside It
The regulation behind Europe's €30 billion AI Gigafactories also rewired the EU's quantum strategy. The institutional convergence has consequences that the AI headlines buried ...
AI Broke a NIST Candidate. Not Your Encryption
Claude Mythos Preview recovered HAWK-256 challenge keys and improved a 13-year-old reduced-round AES result. ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon, and production AES are untouched. The real shift is the cost of finding flaws ...
SAXON Q’s 128-Qubit Diamond Quantum Computer: Real Fabrication Advance, Misleading Qubit Count
SAXON Q opened orders for a 128-qubit room-temperature diamond quantum computer. The disclosed architecture uses sixteen separate eight-qubit cores with no published inter-core entanglement. The peer-reviewed fabrication advance is real ...
ECC Attack Circuit Drops to 835 Logical Qubits
The same Tsinghua-Peking group whose April preprint reached 1,333 qubits for a 256-bit ECC attack has pushed to 835, the lowest yet. The circuit is narrower, but the gate count is 20 times higher than the leading alternative. Smaller machine, longer run ...
China’s Neutral-Atom Sprint: Three Generations in Nine Months — But Where Are the Benchmarks?
China's CAS-linked neutral-atom ecosystem unveiled three quantum computer systems in nine months, each in a smaller package than the last. The iteration speed on form factor has no Western counterpart. Not one system has published peer-reviewed performance data ...
QuiX Quantum Announces Carina, Claiming the First Universal Photonic Quantum Computer Built for Customer Deployment
QuiX has delivered Carina's core hardware to DLR QCI and published a white paper written largely in the future tense. The engineering is serious; the universality, priority, and qubit-count claims all need qualifiers ...
White House Quantum Summit Operationalizes June EOs
The White House convened nearly 100 government officials, quantum company executives, and researchers on July 7 to translate June's twin quantum executive orders into coordinated action, with a 2028 fault-tolerant computing target and 2030 PQC migration deadline anchoring the agenda ...
Shanghai Bets on Neutral Atoms with Dual Quantum Hubs
Shanghai launched two quantum computing hubs in a single week, both targeting neutral-atom quantum computing. The move validates two things I have been arguing for months: China's 15th Five-Year Plan is implementing fast, and neutral atoms are the modality to watch ...
FINMA Quantum Guidance Puts a Mid-2027 Date on Swiss PQC Roadmaps
Switzerland's financial regulator surveyed 60 institutions and found 72% with no quantum-safe measures. Its answer: board-level PQC strategies, roadmaps by mid-2027, and crypto-agility written into outsourcing contracts ...
A $9.4 Billion Day for IBM Quantum Fusion Chemistry
IBM gained close to ten billion dollars in market value the day it announced quantum computations of fusion blanket chemistry. The paper's own resource tables show which half of the workflow actually fell short ...
Five Tests for Genuine Quantum Advantage, From Huang, Choi, McClean, and Preskill
Four leading theorists publish a framework separating genuine quantum advantages from illusions, plus a proof that some advantages cannot be predicted classically. The claim that fares best under their five tests is Shor's algorithm, the one that breaks RSA ...
Reinforcement Learning Quantum Error Correction: Google’s Willow Learns to Calibrate Itself
Google's agent steers more than 1,000 control parameters using nothing but error-detection statistics, holding surface codes steady against drift and squeezing 20% more performance from an exhaustively calibrated processor. The catch sits in the simulations ...
Diraq Eight-Qubit Foundry Silicon Array
Diraq and imec tuned and coherently ran eight foundry-fabricated silicon spin qubits on one chip. Coherence matched the two-qubit devices; entangling gates worked in one of four pairs. My read on the CMOS scaling thesis ...
The ECB’s AI Cybersecurity Letter to Banks Is Also a Quantum Announcement
The euro area's banking supervisor gave 110 bank CEOs an October 31 deadline for AI cyber action plans, then used the final paragraph to start the quantum clock. Here is what the coming quantum letter will demand ...
EU Funds QKD Certification Push With QUARTERNEXT
The EU is funding a four-year consortium to certify quantum key distribution for industrial use, even as its own cybersecurity agencies urge organizations to prioritize post-quantum cryptography. The tension is instructive ...
Microsoft PQC Acceleration: What Was Announced
The company that said 2033 ten months ago now says 2029. With Google and Cloudflare already committed, three of the internet's most consequential infrastructure providers have converged on the same post-quantum deadline ...
Post-Quantum OpenPGP Arrives: RFC 9980, the GnuPG Split, and the Signature Gap
The IETF has standardized ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA for OpenPGP, with hybrid-only lattice cryptography and a v4 compatibility carve-out. The bigger story is the implementation split that decides whether any of it interoperates ...
