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China's Quantum Ambition
China’s Quantum Talent Ecosystem: Building a Superpower’s Workforce
In 1996, a 26-year-old physics student from the University of Science and Technology of China arrived in Vienna to begin doctoral work under Anton Zeilinger, one of the world's leading quantum experimentalists. Five years later, he went home. That decision…
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Quantum Security & PQC
Quantum Threat Timeline Report 2025: Record Predictions, But Can the Survey Keep Up?
5 Apr 2026 - The Global Risk Institute (GRI) and evolutionQ Inc. have published the seventh edition of their annual Quantum Threat Timeline Report, the longest-running expert survey dedicated to estimating when a quantum computer will be capable of breaking…
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China's Quantum Ambition
China’s Hefei National Laboratory: The Nerve Center of a Quantum Superpower
On April 26, 2016, Xi Jinping walked into USTC's Advanced Technology Research Institute in Hefei and listened to a physicist named Pan Jianwei describe the future of quantum information science. What Xi said next — "Very promising, very important… the…
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China's Quantum Ambition
The $15.3 Billion Number That Everyone Cites and Nobody Can Verify
In October 2023, I was on a call with a European defense ministry official who wanted to discuss quantum threats. Within the first five minutes, he cited it. "China has invested $15.3 billion in quantum technology - nearly double the…
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Research
Gauge Theory Meets Quantum Computing
April 2, 2026 - Dr. Dominic Williamson of the University of Sydney and Theodore Yoder of IBM have published a new method for performing fault-tolerant logical measurements on quantum error-correcting codes that dramatically reduces the physical qubit overhead required. The…
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China's Quantum Ambition
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan Makes Quantum an Industrial Imperative — Not Just a Research Priority
When China's National People's Congress approved the 15th Five-Year Plan on March 12, 2026, it completed a journey that had been building for over a decade. Quantum technology, once buried deep in academic research budgets, emerged at the top of…
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Quantum Security & PQC
QuantumShield360 AI Achieves World’s First Complete Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration — Full Quantum Resilience Across All Enterprise Systems
Scottsdale, AZ — April 1, 2026 — QuantumShield360 AI, a next-generation quantum-resilient cybersecurity platform leveraging AI-powered lattice synergies, today announced it has completed a full, end-to-end migration to post-quantum cryptographic standards across its entire technology stack — becoming the first…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The CRQC Scorecard: How Close Is Each Quantum Modality to Breaking Your Encryption?
Yesterday, two papers landed that set social media on fire. Google Quantum AI published a landmark resource estimate showing that fewer than 500,000 superconducting qubits could break Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography in under nine minutes. Hours later, a team from…
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China's Quantum Ambition
The Leapfrog Doctrine: How China Systematically Conquered Every Technology It Targeted
Almost fifteen years ago, I stood on the mezzanine floor of a manufacturing facility in Dongguan, staring into the dark. Literally. Below me, a sprawling production line hummed with the rhythmic, pneumatic hiss of assembly arms and the whine of…
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Quantum Computing
The Dark Horse: How Silicon Quietly Assembled Every Building Block for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
The quantum computing modality race has had a clear narrative for most of the past decade. Superconducting qubits were the frontrunners — Google's quantum supremacy demonstration in 2019, IBM's steadily growing processor roadmap, the first below-threshold surface code results in…
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Quantum Security & PQC
10,000 Qubits to Run Shor’s Algorithm
31 Mar 2026 - On the same day that Google Quantum AI published its landmark ECDLP-256 resource estimates showing fewer than 500,000 superconducting qubits could break cryptocurrency cryptography in minutes, a team from Oratomic, Caltech, and UC Berkeley quietly dropped…
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Quantum Security & PQC
Google Quantum AI Achieves 10x Reduction in Resources to Break Bitcoin’s Cryptography
31 Mar 2026 - Google Quantum AI has published a 57-page whitepaper demonstrating that the quantum resources needed to break the elliptic curve cryptography protecting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and virtually every major cryptocurrency are roughly an order of magnitude smaller than…
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Quantum Security & PQC
The U.S. Intelligence Community Just Put Quantum on Equal Footing with AI. And Expanded the Threat Definition
27 Mar 2026 - Every March, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence publishes a document that most Americans will never read but that quietly shapes trillions of dollars in defense spending, intelligence priorities, and technology policy. The Annual…
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Quantum Computing
Three Bets on Silicon: Donor Qubits, Quantum Dots, and the Foundry Path Compared
When people say "silicon quantum computing," they often speak as if it is one thing. It is not. It is at least three distinct approaches, built on the same material but employing different physics, different fabrication methods, and different strategies…
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Quantum Security & PQC
Google Just Drew a Line in the Sand: PQC Migration by 2029
25 Mar 2026 - The company building the quantum computer is telling you the clock is running out. That should get your attention. On March 25, 2026, Google published a brief but consequential blog post authored by Heather Adkins, VP…
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