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What’s Happening in Quantum — and What It Means
Alice & Bob’s New “Unfolded” Code Dramatically Lowers Magic State Overhead
A new research paper from quantum startup Alice & Bob in collaboration with Inria unveils a technique to significantly reduce the cost of magic state generation - a crucial resource for universal fault-tolerant quantum computing. The paper, titled “Unfolded distillation: very low-cost magic state preparation ...
IBM Launches Heron R3 (ibm_pittsburgh): ~350 µS T2 and a Quality Upgrade for Its 156‑Qubit Platform
IBM has rolled out Heron r3, a new revision of its Heron processor family, debuting on the IBM Quantum Platform as ibm_pittsburgh in late July 2025. The headline change is quality, not scale: r3 keeps the 156‑qubit heavy‑hex design introduced with Heron r2, but IBM says targeted manufacturing improvements boost coherence, gate fidelity, ...
Quantum Cybersecurity Migration Act: U.S. Senate Ramps Up Push for Post-Quantum Readiness
On July 31, 2025, U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced the National Quantum Cybersecurity Migration Strategy Act, a bipartisan bill to ensure the federal government prepares for encryption-breaking quantum computers. The legislation directs a White House office (leveraging the NSTC’s ESIX ...
Future Encrypted: Post-Quantum Cryptography Tops the Cyber Agenda – Key Insights for CISOs
A new Capgemini Research Institute report, “Future Encrypted: Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Tops the New Cybersecurity Agenda”, reveals that while awareness of the quantum threat is rising at the executive level, organizational readiness is dangerously lagging. Nearly two-thirds of businesses now see quantum computing as the ...
Microsoft’s Majorana‑1 Chip Demonstrates X and Z Loop Parity Measurements
Microsoft’s Azure Quantum team has released a new scientific paper (Distinct Lifetimes for X and Z Loop Measurements in a Majorana Tetron Device) presenting the first experimental evidence of complementary Pauli-X and Pauli-Z parity measurements on a topological qubit. The results, announced by Microsoft Quantum ...
Quantum-Readiness Roadmap: BIS Calls Finance to Prepare for the Post-Quantum Era
On July 7, 2025 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – often called the “central bank of central banks” – published a major paper titled “Quantum-readiness for the financial system: a roadmap.” This BIS Paper No. 158, authored by experts from BIS’s Innovation Hub and ...
Quantum Europe Strategy: Europe’s Five-Pillar Plan to Lead the Quantum Revolution
On July 2, 2025, the European Commission unveiled the Quantum Europe Strategy – a comprehensive roadmap to transform Europe into a “quantum industrial powerhouse” and global leader in quantum technologies by 2030. This strategy arrives at a pivotal moment: quantum computing, communication, and sensing are ...
Quantinuum’s Breakthrough Sets Course for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing by 2029
Quantinuum announced a significant technical breakthrough: the company claims to have overcome the “last major hurdle” on the path to scalable, universal fault-tolerant quantum computers. In a press release accompanying two new research papers, Quantinuum declared itself the first to demonstrate a fully error-corrected universal ...
Preparing for the Quantum Age – U.S. Congressional Hearing Recap and Analysis
On June 24, 2025, a House Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing titled “Preparing for the Quantum Age: When Cryptography Breaks.” This hearing convened government, industry, and academic experts to discuss the looming threat quantum computing poses to our current cryptographic systems and what the United ...
Government of Canada Launches Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Migration Roadmap
On June 23, 2025 The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) has issued a new roadmap for migrating the Government of Canada’s IT systems to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Effective June 23, 2025, this guidance, "Roadmap for the migration to post-quantum cryptography for the Government ...
The U.S. GAO Publishes a Quantum Threat Report – Right on Strategy but Wrong on Timing
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a June 2025 report titled “Quantum Computing: Leadership Needed to Coordinate Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategy” (GAO-25-108590). GAO makes many spot-on recommendations – calling for strong federal leadership, workforce development, investment in post-quantum readiness, and securing the quantum ...
EU Commission Roadmap Targets 2030 for Post-Quantum Cryptography Transition
On June 23, 2025, the European Commission and EU Member States unveiled a coordinated roadmap to transition Europe’s digital infrastructure to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This plan lays out a clear timeline for moving to quantum-resistant encryption, recognizing the urgent threat that future quantum computers pose ...
Microsoft Unveils New 4D Quantum Error-Correcting Codes
Microsoft Quantum's researchers have introduced a new family of four-dimensional (4D) geometric quantum error-correcting codes that promise to dramatically outperform today’s standard 2D surface codes. Revealed in a new preprint "A Topologically Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer with Four Dimensional Geometric Codes" (arXiv:2506.15130v1) and an accompanying Microsoft ...
IonQ’s 2025 Roadmap: Toward a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer by 2028
IonQ has unveiled an accelerated quantum computing roadmap that, if realized, could deliver a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) as early as 2028. In a June 2025 announcement, the Maryland-based quantum startup – known for its trapped-ion technology – outlined dramatic scaling milestones enabled by ...
“Tour de Gross” Bets That High‑Rate QLDPC Modules Can Beat the Surface Code on Qubit Economics – If Inter‑Module Measurements and Links Can Catch Up.
The June 2025 preprint “Tour de gross” proposes the bicycle architecture: a modular, long‑range‑connected fault‑tolerant quantum computing stack built around bivariate bicycle (BB) quantum LDPC codes and an explicit set of fault‑tolerant logical “bicycle instructions” (logical measurements, automorphisms, and T‑state injection). The paper’s central claim ...
