Quantum Industry News – PostQuantum – Marin Ivezic

Five months from announcement to fully operational quantum computer. Elevate Quantum's Q-PAC system in Denver proves the Quantum Open Architecture model works — and raises hard questions about whether the monolithic approach to quantum computing can survive ...

QuantWare's $178M Series B is the largest private round ever raised by a dedicated quantum processor company. With Intel Capital and IQT on board, the bet is clear: the quantum industry's future is modular, open, and manufactured at scale ...

15 Mar 2026 - When Clémence Chevignard, Pierre-Alain Fouque, and André Schrottenloher submitted their latest paper to EUROCRYPT 2026, they already had a track record that the cryptographic community was watching closely. In 2024, the same team at INRIA Rennes had published a method that slashed the qubit requirements for quantum factoring of RSA integers - work that Craig Gidney ...

10 Mar 2026 - Quantinuum researchers have demonstrated quantum computations using up to 94 error-detected logical qubits and 48 error-corrected logical qubits on the company's 98-qubit Helios trapped-ion quantum processor. The work, published as a pre-print on arXiv, reports "beyond break-even" performance across multiple benchmarks — meaning the encoded logical qubits outperformed their unencoded physical counterparts. The team used a ...

China's Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co. has made its quantum operating system, Origin Pilot, available for free public download - a move that multiple sources describe as the first time a quantum computer OS has been offered for local deployment anywhere in the world. The release, announced February 26 through the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center and widely covered ...

7 Mar 2026 - On Friday afternoon - the traditional Washington burial ground for news you'd rather not have scrutinized - the White House released "President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America," the administration's long-delayed national cybersecurity strategy document. Originally expected in January, the strategy outlines six policy pillars that will ostensibly guide the nation's cybersecurity posture going forward. The document ...

The Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) has launched the Commission on U.S. Quantum Primacy (CUSP), a new bipartisan body designed to produce a national strategy for keeping the United States ahead in quantum technologies. SCSP frames the effort not as a narrow science-policy exercise, but as a broader push to connect quantum innovation with national security, economic strength, and long-term ...

The Swiss Quantum Commission just released Switzerland's first comprehensive quantum strategy. For a national quantum strategy, it didn't arrive with the usual fanfare we got used to. No press conference headlined by a prime minister. No headline-grabbing pledge of tens of billions in public funding. No promise to build the world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer by a suspiciously specific date ...

A preprint manuscript (ID: 202510.1649) titled “A Novel Hybrid Quantum Circuit for Integer Factorization: End-to-End Evaluation in Simulation and Real Quantum Hardware” was published on the Preprints.org server. Authored by researchers affiliated with the Advanced Quantum Technologies Institute (AQTI), the paper introduces the "Jesse–Victor–Gharabaghi (JVG) algorithm" - a hybrid classical-quantum approach to integer factorization that proposes replacing the Quantum Fourier Transform ...

Google will not put post-quantum signatures into traditional X.509 certificates for Chrome. Instead, the company announced in February 2026 a fundamentally different architecture - Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) - that shrinks quantum-resistant TLS authentication data from roughly 14,700 bytes down to as little as 736 bytes, making post-quantum HTTPS potentially smaller than today's classical certificate chains. The approach, developed jointly ...

Entanglement swapping over deployed metro fiber at rates roughly 10,000 times better than previous benchmarks. The NYC demonstration proves Cisco's quantum networking software can operate on the noisiest fiber in the world ...

Since the preprint paper of The Pinnacle Architecture preprint hit and its Quantum Insider coverage ran, my phone has been ringing off the hook. The question behind most of those calls is simple: does this mean RSA is suddenly in imminent trouble? Is it true that this paper brought the Q-Day closer 2-5 years? (Who said that?!?)... The short answer is NO - not ...

On 20 January 2026, the European Commission published COM(2026) 13 final - a proposed directive amending NIS2 as part of a broader cybersecurity simplification package tied to the upcoming Cybersecurity Act 2. The proposal covers a range of updates: streamlining scope definitions, simplifying cross-border supervision, introducing ransomware reporting requirements, and enabling cyber posture certification as a compliance tool. But buried ...

12 Feb 2026 - A team led by Jianwei Wang and Lin Chang at Peking University has demonstrated an integrated-photonics twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) network connecting 20 independent client chips across ten wavelength-multiplexed channels, with each channel surpassing the repeaterless bound at 370 km in spooled fiber. The results, published in Nature, achieve a total networking capability — defined ...

A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) published a paper in Science that quietly redrew the map of what device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) can do. Led by Bo-Wei Lu, Chao-Wei Yang, Run-Qi Wang, Xiao-Hui Bao, and the ever-present Jian-Wei Pan - the physicist sometimes called China's quantum communications supremo - the experiment demonstrated DI-QKD ...

India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) published the “Implementation of Quantum Safe Ecosystem in India – Report of the Task Force.” This report, produced by a national Task Force under DST, lays out a strategic roadmap for transitioning India’s digital infrastructure to quantum-resistant security. The Task Force was chaired by Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay (CEO of C-DOT) and convened experts ...

5 Feb 2026 - A team led by Jian-Wei Pan and Qiang Zhang at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has demonstrated what the field has been waiting for: remote memory-memory entanglement that survives longer than the time it takes to create it. Published in Nature, the result uses trapped calcium-40 ions connected by 10 km of ...

Hong Kong’s central bank unveils a “Quantum Preparedness Index” to gauge how ready its banks are for the quantum computing era, underscoring a global push among regulators to future-proof financial security. Hong Kong’s de facto central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), has announced the launch of a Quantum Preparedness Index (QPI) as part of its new Fintech Promotion ...