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Industry
Quantum Academy Launches 68 PQC and Quantum Courses, With Proctored Certification Exams
Quantum Academy's next live online sessions start October 19, priced from US$379 to US$8,499 for the six-week Certified Chief Quantum Officer program. Disclosure: I founded it, and some of its instructors work at my consulting firm.
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Policy & Sovereignty
NSA Rewrites Its QKD Guidance: Same Verdict, a New Certification Argument
Almost six years after its first QKD statement, NSA has revised it. National security systems still get a no, and NSA now says certified security can erode. I agree, and argue the US should fund a limited operational QKD program.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Germany’s BSI Advises Against New Classic McEliece Deployments After Researchers Estimate Key Recovery Below Its Claimed Security Levels
Less than two months after a new Classic McEliece distinguisher appeared, three research groups estimate key recovery below every claimed security level, and Germany's federal cybersecurity agency wants no new projects built on it. No practical attack exists yet.
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Policy & Sovereignty
NATO’s First Quantum Roadmap: Sea Trials, a PQC Pilot and No Public Date for Its Own PQC Migration
Allies approved NATO's first quantum technology roadmap in July. Its public summary dates sensor trials, standards work and a cryptography pilot. A separate procurement notice estimates the pilot at €8 million and adds a before-2030 goal.
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Research
QuTech Builds Leakage Removal Into Qubit Readout, and Its Clearest Gain Is in Stability Experiments
QuTech's leakage reduction unit works inside a qubit measurement and adds no time to two-level readout. At baseline leakage it left memory-experiment error rates unchanged but raised a stability experiment's error-suppression factor by 29%, or 54% with three-level readout.
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Policy & Sovereignty
In a Survey of 160 Quantum Firms, 90% Buy From Abroad and About a Quarter Buy From China
Six industry associations asked 160 quantum companies where their suppliers, customers and factories are. I separate foreign from home answers in the country counts, then look at China, the competing lists of like-minded countries and what the survey left out.
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Quantum Computing
What Quantum Computers Are For: A Mathematician’s Map of Quantum Advantage
The mathematician's answer to what quantum computers are for: three problem families where the advantage is real, the theorems that cap combinatorics at quadratic, and the open problems stated in your notation.
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Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing for Mathematicians: From Four Axioms to Shor’s Algorithm
Everything a mathematician needs to understand quantum computing: the four axioms, why "trying all answers at once" is wrong, how interference powers Shor and Grover, and where mathematicians are needed next.
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Quantum Computing
Several Vendors Now Supply Quantum Error Correction’s Classical Loop. The Qubits Are Still the Hard Part.
Riverlane, Qblox, Altera, Xanadu, AMD, NVIDIA and IonQ spent September turning error correction's classical loop into parts with published interfaces and measured latencies. What they tested, on what data, and how I now read fault-tolerance timelines.
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Industry
Infleqtion Hits 30 Logical Qubits With Error Detection. Its Original 2026 Target Called for Error Correction.
Infleqtion met its 2026 goal of 30 logical qubits on Sqale with eight-atom blocks that detect errors and discard failed runs. The goal it replaced in 2025 called for error correction.
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Leadership
Paying for AI’s Data Centers Would Take 250 Million Jobs. America Has 159 Million
In 2020 I co-wrote that AI itself would become a commodity. Six years and $1.5 trillion of data centers later, I convert the build-out's revenue needs into jobs and ask how much of AI's value its makers must keep.
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Research
Microsoft and Qolab Propose Four Conditions for a Scalable Logical Qubit. DOE’s $215 Million Competition Leaves Its Test to Negotiation.
Troyer, Nayak and Martinis want the word scalable reserved for logical qubits kept alive by repeated error correction and real-time decoding. I checked ten studies and announcements since April 2024 against their conditions and DOE's new competition rules.
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Quantum Commercialization
Nobody Checked the Physics: How Venture Due Diligence Went Missing Where the Checks Are Largest
On Carta's platform the median startup waits 774 days for a Series A. The hottest deep-tech deals close in days on no product. Between those numbers is where nobody can see the physics checked, and quantum is paying for it.
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Systems & Engineering
IonQ Shows a Single Laptop CPU Can Decode a Simulated 408-Logical-Qubit Trapped-Ion Computer in Real Time
IonQ researchers decoded simulated trapped-ion workloads on 12 Apple M4 Max cores, the largest with 408 logical qubits and another with over a million T gates, adding under 0.3% delay at a two-qubit error rate of one in 10,000.
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Quantum Security & PQC
China’s Next-Generation Crypto Candidates Drew 104 Public Findings in Three Days. Researchers Broke Five Designs on Day Two
Within three days of China publishing its first-round candidates, public reports listed 104 findings against 65 of them. Saarinen's AI-assisted sweep found code bugs; researchers posting to ICCS's own forums found the design breaks.
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