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 multiple fault‑tolerant computers within five years, then a broader, distributed network in the early 2030s, and - if the physics ...

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 the U.S. must secure early advantage in quantum computing, quantum communications and post-quantum security before rival powers can use the ...

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 winces. Not because these technologies aren’t exciting, they often are, but because the language steadily erodes public understanding of what ...

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 quantum hardware to verifying real-world utility. As large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQC) inch closer to reality , the question “What ...

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 mark major steps toward achieving practical quantum advantage by 2026 and fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029. The first is a ...

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 bits – that can exist in superposition and become entangled. But qubits are notoriously fragile, easily losing their quantum state ...

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 the third generation of Quantinuum’s quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) trapped-ion architecture. Unlike fixed two-dimensional qubit layouts in superconducting processors, Helios ...

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 the press on Nov. 7-8, 2025, marks a significant down-selection of participants as the program moves from conceptual proposals to ...

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 event at UC Berkeley, the initiative comes with initial legislation (Assembly Bill 940) and $4 million in funding to kick-start the effort ...

The United Kingdom is ramping up its quantum ambitions with a slate of new initiatives and international partnerships announced at the National Quantum Technologies Showcase in London on November 7. UK officials dubbed the coming years a “Quantum Decade,” backed by fresh investments to maintain the country’s global leadership in the field. One highlight is a £14 million award for 14 industry-led ...

Quantinuum, a leading quantum computing firm, has officially launched Helios, a new general-purpose quantum computing system designed for enterprise use. Billed as “the world’s most accurate” commercial quantum computer, Helios is engineered to tackle hybrid quantum-classical workloads and is set to be deployed in Singapore as the company’s first system outside the United States. This launch marks a significant milestone ...

A team at Princeton University has achieved a major leap in quantum hardware: a superconducting qubit that retains its quantum state for over 1 millisecond - roughly three times longer than the previous record. This coherence time of 1 ms, reported in Nature on November 5, marks the largest single improvement in qubit lifetime in over a decade. Longer-lived qubits directly translate ...

In a sign of surging investor confidence in quantum computing, Quantinuum - the company formed by Honeywell’s quantum unit and Cambridge Quantum - has secured an $800 million funding round that values it at roughly $10 billion. The raise, announced November 5, is one of the largest ever in the quantum industry and was oversubscribed, expanding from an initial target of $600 million due ...

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 event at UC Berkeley, the initiative comes with initial legislation (Assembly Bill 940) and $4 million in funding to kick-start the effort ...

American officials are doubling down on quantum research. On November 4, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $625 million in funding to renew its five National Quantum Information Science Research Centers for another five years. These centers, originally established in 2020 under the National Quantum Initiative Act of 2018, bring together national labs, universities, and companies to push the frontiers ...

In a landmark deal for the quantum industry, Canada’s Xanadu Quantum Technologies announced plans to go public via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The deal, unveiled November 3, values Xanadu at a pre-money equity value of US$3 billion and is expected to provide around $500 million in gross proceeds for the company’s expansionthequantuminsider.com. Once completed, Xanadu will become the world’s ...

The European Union (EU) is laying the groundwork for a major legislative push in quantum technologies with a proposed EU Quantum Act, aiming to unify and amplify Europe’s efforts in the global quantum race. On October 31, the European Commission opened a public consultation (Call for Evidence) for stakeholders to help shape this Quantum Act, which is slated for adoption ...

China has reached a new milestone in quantum computing with the deployment of Hǎnyuán-1, the country’s first room-temperature neutral-atom quantum computer. Announced in late October in Hubei Province, Hǎnyuán-1 is a 100-qubit system that has now entered commercial use - reportedly with over ¥40 million (~$5.6 million) in orders from customers. One unit has already been delivered to a subsidiary of China ...