Quantum Industry News – PostQuantum – Marin Ivezic

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 Threat Assessment (ATA) is the Intelligence Community's official, unclassified evaluation of the threats facing the United States - a consensus ...

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 of Security Engineering, and Sophie Schmieg, Senior Staff Cryptography Engineer. Buried beneath a deliberately understated title - "Quantum frontiers may ...

24 Mar 2026 - In 1998, Bruce Kane published a single-page proposal in Nature that launched an entire subfield of quantum computing. The idea was elegant: use the nuclear spins of individual phosphorus atoms embedded in a silicon crystal as qubits. Silicon offered long coherence times. Phosphorus offered an addressable spin. And the surrounding semiconductor infrastructure — the lithography, the ...

21 Mar 2026 - A curious thing happened in cybersecurity Slack channels and LinkedIn threads over the last few weeks: security professionals who had been dragging their feet on post-quantum cryptography migration suddenly had a new reason to wait. A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Tim Palmer, an emeritus professor of physics at ...

IBM's reference architecture treats quantum processors as specialized compute offload engines within existing HPC infrastructure — and maps a decade-long evolution toward fully co-designed quantum-classical systems ...

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 ...