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Industry
Danish Photonics Startup Sparrow Quantum Raises $32M
Sparrow Quantum, a spin-out from the Niels Bohr Institute, has closed a €27.5 million (~$32 million) Series A round - the largest quantum-tech investment in the Nordic region to date. The funding, led by North Ventures and the European Investment Bank’s venture…
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Q-Day Prediction
Q-Day: Predicting the Unpredictable
When will a quantum computer break RSA and ECC? Expert predictions range from "already happened in a classified lab" to "never" — and the honest truth is that nobody knows. Q-Day prediction is hard because it depends on simultaneous breakthroughs…
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Research
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 practical terms, the team from Heriot-Watt University demonstrated a reconfigurable…
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Quantum Sovereignty
Sovereignty Stress Tests: Tabletop Scenarios for States and Enterprises
In an era of quantum and digital sovereignty, governments and companies must ensure they aren’t caught off-guard by geopolitical tech disruptions. Building on my previous analyses of quantum sovereignty and a number of Applied Quantum client engagements, I wanted to…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Rethinking CBOM
The simplest way to explain CBOM is still the best. If SBOM is the ingredients list for software, CBOM is the ingredients list for the security assumptions that software depends on. Where SBOM tracks components and dependencies, CBOM tracks cryptographic…
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Industry
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 platform". Announced via Executive Order by President Trump, the mission’s…
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Industry
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 backed by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund (Qatar Investment Authority) as…
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Industry
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 the previous simulation record of 48 qubits set in 2019…
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Quantum Security & PQC
Pentagon CIO memo puts post-quantum crypto on a procurement leash
A memo from The Pentagon CIO dated Nov. 18, 2025 (cleared for open publication Nov. 20) forces a shift from ad‑hoc PQC pilots to a controlled, enterprise migration program. It orders an all-systems cryptography inventory, requires Components to name PQC migration leads,…
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Industry
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 stand‑alone fault‑tolerant machines into a fabric: first a proof‑of‑concept linking…
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Industry
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 will develop open specifications, best practices, and checklists to guide…
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Policy & Sovereignty
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 adopt a “Quantum First” national goal by 2030, arguing that…
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Industry
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 cybersecurity company’s Q1 2026 earnings call, Arora predicted that within…
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Industry
Quantum Utility Block: A Fast-Track, Modular Path to Quantum Utility
Three quantum technology companies – QuantWare, Q-CTRL, and Qblox - jointly unveiled a new offering called the Quantum Utility Block (QUB), billing it as “the fastest path to quantum utility” for enterprises and research institutions. This announcement, made in Delft,…
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Industry
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. The experiment, published in Nature Communications on Nov 17, is…
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