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DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) – 11 Companies Advance to Stage B
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…
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California Launches “Quantum California” Initiative
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…
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UK Unveils Major Quantum Initiatives at 2025 Showcase
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…
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Quantinuum Launches ‘Helios’ Hybrid Quantum Computer, To Be Deployed in Singapore
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…
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Quantinuum Raises $800 M at $10 B Valuation
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…
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IonQ & Partners Launch City-Scale Quantum Network in Geneva
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…
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U.S. DOE Invests $625 M to Renew National Quantum Centers
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…
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Xanadu to Go Public in $3 B Photonic Quantum SPAC
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…
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EU Launches Plan for a Comprehensive “Quantum Act”
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…
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China Deploys 100-Qubit Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer
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 -…
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Cloudflare Secures Majority of Internet Traffic with PQC
The Internet is quietly undergoing a massive cryptographic upgrade to resist quantum attacks - and as of October 2025, a major milestone was reached: over 50% of human web traffic through Cloudflare’s network is now protected with post-quantum encryption. Cloudflare,…
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NVIDIA Bridges Quantum and Classical Supercomputing
NVIDIA is forging a tighter link between quantum and classical supercomputers. At its GTC Washington, D.C. event on October 28, NVIDIA unveiled NVQLink, a new high-speed interconnect and open architecture that couples quantum processors (QPUs) directly with GPU-accelerated supercomputers. The…
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🏆 The Quantum Minute Wins Best Podcast Series of 2025 – and What That Really Means for Cybersecurity
I’m proud, both personally and professionally, to share that Applied Quantum’s podcast, The Quantum Minute, produced by Cybercrime Magazine, has been named Best Podcast Series of 2025. But what makes this win truly meaningful isn’t just that our show received…
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Quantum Tunnelling on a Chip: Why the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Matters for Quantum Tech
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for a deceptively simple yet profound experiment. They built a superconducting circuit - two superconductors separated by an insulating barrier known as a Josephson junction - and showed…
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IBM’s “Secure the Post-Quantum Future” Report
A new 2025 report from IBM’s Institute for Business Value (IBV), in collaboration with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), paints a stark picture of enterprise readiness for the quantum era. Titled ”Secure the post-quantum future,” the study surveyed 750 executives…
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