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Industry
OQC Raises £260M in Europe’s Largest Private Quantum Round — Where the Money Actually Goes
Europe's largest private quantum round lands at £260M, with 38% from the British Business Bank. The money is earmarked for OQC's TITAN system, but the gap between 32 qubits today and 200 logical qubits by 2028 demands closer examination.
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Industry
Joining Project Eleven as Advisor
I don't usually announce advisory roles. This one is different, because making digital assets quantum-safe may be the hardest PQC migration challenge of all.
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Industry
Microsoft’s Majorana 2 Chip Achieves 20-Second Parity Lifetime — But the Topological Qubit Debate Rages On
Microsoft's second topological quantum chip achieves a 1,000-fold improvement in parity lifetime by swapping aluminum for lead. The engineering progress is real. Whether these are topological qubits at all remains fiercely contested.
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Industry
IBM Commits $10 Billion to Quantum, Launches America’s First Quantum Chip Foundry
IBM's five-year, $10 billion quantum commitment funds the Starling fault-tolerant system by 2029 and Anderon, a standalone quantum chip foundry in Albany backed by $1 billion in CHIPS Act incentives.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Google’s Secret Quantum Circuits for Breaking ECC Reproduced and Improved in Two Months
A French researcher independently matched Google's secret quantum circuits for breaking elliptic curve cryptography, then improved the gate count. Google's Craig Gidney says the zero-knowledge approach failed and open publication should resume.
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Industry
D-Wave Bets Its Future on Gate-Model Quantum Computing with 2032 Fault-Tolerance Roadmap
D-Wave's first Investor Day roadmap targets 100 fault-tolerant logical qubits by 2032 using dual-rail superconducting qubits. The annealing pioneer enters a crowded gate-model race with an unproven architecture and ambitious error-reduction targets.
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Quantum AI
Quantum Machine Learning in 2026: A Real Frontier and an Honest Scorecard
A quantum computer naturally commands an exponentially large space, and machine learning is the art of taming such spaces. So why hasn't quantum AI delivered, and when will it? An evidence-first look at promise, hype, and timeline.
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Quantum Security & PQC
ETH Zurich’s “Perfect Randomness”: What Actually Happened
A new preprint series claims to break every major lattice-based NIST PQC standard via an improved CDPR attack. The claim has critical technical gaps that the lattice cryptography community will need to resolve.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) Gold Rush
Everyone is selling quantum randomness. Most buyers can't tell the difference between genuine quantum entropy and a rebranded noise source with a quantum sticker on the box. This guide fixes that.
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Building Quantum Computers
Securing a Quantum Computer: The Hardening Decisions a Builder Has to Make
Every quantum computer is controlled by classical systems that can be hacked like any other. The security decisions a builder makes during integration: facility hardening, network segmentation, firmware integrity, personnel, and calibration drift as a security signal.
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Building Quantum Computers
The Quantum Supply Chain: Where Every Component Comes From and What Breaks If It Stops
A handful of countries and companies supply the entire Western quantum hardware stack. Where the concentration risk sits layer by layer, how it materializes in ordinary procurement, and why open architecture is the structural mitigation.
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Quantum Security & PQC
A New Paper Claims to Break ML-KEM, Falcon, Hawk, and NTRU. Should You Worry?
A new preprint series claims to break every major lattice-based NIST PQC standard via an improved CDPR attack. The claim has critical technical gaps that the lattice cryptography community will need to resolve.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Post-Quantum Deadlines Are Likely About to Compress. Here’s What I’m Seeing.
Governments spent 2025 publishing PQC roadmaps. In 2026, they started giving those roadmaps teeth. A draft US executive order, the EU's first binding PQC law, and vendor deadlines from Google and AWS are collapsing the compliance horizon from 2035 to…
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Quantum Computing
Every Quantum Salary Guide I’ve Seen Is Fake. Here’s How I Proved It.
Recruitment agencies are flooding the market with "benchmarked" quantum salary data. I reverse-engineered the numbers in five different guides. Every single one was built from a formula, not from actual placement data.
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PQC Governance
PQC Governance Objections: A Field Guide to the Arguments That Delay Programs
Every PQC program faces internal resistance dressed as reasonable objections. This field guide covers nine of the most common ones with the evidence and reasoning needed to answer them and keep the program moving.
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