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Quantum Sovereignty
Investment Screening and M&A: When Capital Becomes a Quantum Sovereignty Vector
Foreign investment screening, acquisition scrutiny, and “strategic capital” policies increasingly shape which quantum technology companies survive - and where their intellectual property (IP) and talent ultimately reside. National security and technological sovereignty narratives are no longer abstract concerns; they influence…
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Industry
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,” or “beyond classical limits.” And every time, the quantum-security community…
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Quantum Sovereignty
Quantum Sovereign Optionality: Agility Over Autarky
Technical sovereignty has become a buzzword in geopolitical and tech circles. As global alliances fray and trust in traditional partners wanes, countries are scrambling to assert control over critical technologies. In the quantum arena, this instinct translates into an ambitious…
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Quantum Computing Companies
Silicon Quantum Computing
Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) is an Australian quantum hardware company based in Sydney, founded in May 2017 as a UNSW Sydney spin-off by Prof. Michelle Simmons (2018 Australian of the Year). It was launched as Australia’s first quantum computing company…
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Quantum Computing
A Quantum Contrarian Con Artist
In the growing spotlight on quantum technology, a new kind of opportunist is taking the stage - the contrarian con artist. These are not the honest skeptics who ask hard questions in good faith. They are bad-faith actors cloaking themselves…
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Quantum Computing Companies
Photonic Inc.
Photonic Inc. is a Vancouver-based quantum computing startup pioneering a distributed, fault-tolerant quantum computer architecture built on silicon spin qubits that are optically linked by photons. In contrast to monolithic quantum processors, Photonic’s design treats networking as a native feature:…
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Industry
The Five Stages from Idea to Impact: Google’s Framework for Quantum Applications
Google’s Quantum AI team has unveiled a new five-stage framework to guide the development of useful quantum computing applications. Published as a perspective paper on arXiv and summarized in a Google blog post, this framework shifts focus from merely building…
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Industry
IBM Unveils “Nighthawk” and “Loon” Quantum Chips: Milestones Toward Quantum Advantage and Fault Tolerance
IBM has announced two significant advances in quantum computing as part of its updated roadmap on November 12, 2025. At the annual Quantum Developer Conference, the company introduced IBM Quantum Nighthawk and IBM Quantum Loon – two new processors that…
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Quantum Computing Companies
Quantum Motion
Quantum Motion is a London-based quantum computing company pioneering a silicon-based approach to building scalable quantum computers. Founded in 2017 by UCL’s Prof. John Morton and Oxford’s Prof. Simon Benjamin, the startup spun out of those universities to harness traditional…
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Research
Harvard’s 448-Atom Quantum Computer Achieves Fault-Tolerant Milestone
A Harvard-led team unveiled a record-breaking neutral-atom quantum processor that for the first time integrates all core elements of scalable, error-corrected quantum computation into a single system. Quantum computers promise exponential processing power by encoding information in qubits – quantum…
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Quantum Commercialization
Quantum Computing Due-Diligence: A Field Guide to Evaluating Startups, Technologies, and Claims
Over the years, I’ve developed a personal toolkit - a field guide - for evaluating quantum startups and their claims. The goal is to neither be swept up by the mystique nor dismiss genuine progress. This balance is crucial: the…
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Industry
Quantinuum’s Helios Quantum Computer Demonstrates Quantum Advantage
Quantum computing has reached a new milestone with Quantinuum’s Helios system - a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer that has demonstrated beyond-classical performance on both benchmarking tests and a real-world simulation task. Helios Architecture: 98 Qubits with Record Fidelity Helios represents…
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Quantum Computing
Analysis of Quantinuum Helios, a 98‑Qubit Trapped‑Ion Quantum Computer
In November 2025, Quantinuum unveiled Helios, a new 98-qubit quantum processor that pushes the frontier of quantum computing with a novel trapped-ion architecture. It also published an accompanying paper on arXiv "Helios: A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer." Helios is based…
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Industry
DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) – 11 Companies Advance to Stage B
On November 6, 2025, DARPA announced the first cohort of companies that have successfully completed Stage A and are advancing to Stage B of QBI. This announcement, quietly reflected on DARPA’s official QBI program webpage and subsequently picked up by…
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Industry
California Launches “Quantum California” Initiative
California is making a bid to become the epicenter of the quantum tech economy. In early November, Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled Quantum California, a new statewide initiative to align academia, industry, and government in accelerating quantum innovation. Announced at an…
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