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HSBC and IBM’s Quantum-Enabled Bond Trading Breakthrough
HSBC and IBM revealed the world’s first-known quantum-enabled algorithmic trading trial in the bond market. In a collaboration bridging banking and cutting-edge tech, the team demonstrated up to a 34% improvement in predicting whether a customer’s bond trade would go…
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New Paper Alert: Mapping Quantum Industry Demands to Education
A new peer-reviewed study - “Mapping quantum industry demands to education: a critical analysis of skills, qualifications, and modalities,” by Devendrababu et al. has just been published in EPJ Quantum Technology (2025). The paper takes a data-driven look at what…
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Alice & Bob’s New “Unfolded” Code Dramatically Lowers Magic State Overhead
A new research paper from quantum startup Alice & Bob in collaboration with Inria unveils a technique to significantly reduce the cost of magic state generation - a crucial resource for universal fault-tolerant quantum computing. The paper, titled “Unfolded distillation:…
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Microsoft’s Majorana‑1 Chip Demonstrates X and Z Loop Parity Measurements
Microsoft’s Azure Quantum team has released a new scientific paper (Distinct Lifetimes for X and Z Loop Measurements in a Majorana Tetron Device) presenting the first experimental evidence of complementary Pauli-X and Pauli-Z parity measurements on a topological qubit. The…
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Quantum Europe Strategy: Europe’s Five-Pillar Plan to Lead the Quantum Revolution
On July 2, 2025, the European Commission unveiled the Quantum Europe Strategy – a comprehensive roadmap to transform Europe into a “quantum industrial powerhouse” and global leader in quantum technologies by 2030. This strategy arrives at a pivotal moment: quantum…
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Quantinuum’s Breakthrough Sets Course for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing by 2029
Quantinuum announced a significant technical breakthrough: the company claims to have overcome the “last major hurdle” on the path to scalable, universal fault-tolerant quantum computers. In a press release accompanying two new research papers, Quantinuum declared itself the first to…
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Microsoft Unveils New 4D Quantum Error-Correcting Codes
Microsoft Quantum's researchers have introduced a new family of four-dimensional (4D) geometric quantum error-correcting codes that promise to dramatically outperform today’s standard 2D surface codes. Revealed in a new preprint "A Topologically Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer with Four Dimensional Geometric Codes"…
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IonQ’s 2025 Roadmap: Toward a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer by 2028
IonQ has unveiled an accelerated quantum computing roadmap that, if realized, could deliver a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) as early as 2028. In a June 2025 announcement, the Maryland-based quantum startup – known for its trapped-ion technology – outlined…
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IBM’s Roadmap to Large-Scale Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) by 2029 – News & Analysis
June 10 2025 IBM made a landmark announcement outlining a clear path to build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by the year 2029. Codenamed IBM Quantum “Starling,” this planned system will leverage a new scalable architecture to achieve…
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A Reality Check on Forbes’ “20 Real-World Quantum Computing Applications”
A few of Forbes’s examples are genuinely promising; several smash together disparate ideas without noting the engineering road‑map; and some miss key caveats that separate “demo‑ready” from “production‑ready.” The authors could have done a sharper job sorting mature use cases…
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D-Wave Claims Quantum Supremacy with Quantum Annealing
D-Wave Quantum Inc. has announced a breakthrough, claiming to achieve quantum computational advantage – even “quantum supremacy” – using its quantum annealing technology on a practical problem. In a peer-reviewed study published in Science on March 12, 2025, D-Wave’s researchers…
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Zuchongzhi 3.0 Quantum Chip: Technical Analysis and Implications
China’s quantum computing powerhouse, the Zuchongzhi research teams, just unveiled Zuchongzhi 3.0, a new superconducting quantum processor with 105 qubits, marking a major leap in quantum computing performance. Announced in March 2025 by a University of Science and Technology of…
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AWS Announces Ocelot Chip for Ultra-Reliable Qubits
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially unveiled Ocelot, its first in-house quantum computing chip, marking a significant milestone in the company’s quantum ambitions. Announced on February 27, 2025, Ocelot is a prototype processor designed from the ground up to tackle…
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Microsoft’s Majorana-Based Quantum Chip – Beyond the Hype
In February 2025, Microsoft unveiled “Majorana 1,” an eight-qubit quantum chip built on a topological qubit architecture – a first-of-its-kind design leveraging exotic Majorana quasiparticles. This chip uses a new material called a “topoconductor” (a specially engineered topological superconductor) made…
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Google AI’s Surface Code Breaks the Quantum Error Threshold
In a landmark experiment, Google Quantum AI researchers have demonstrated the first quantum memory operating below the error-correction threshold on a superconducting processor. Using two new “Willow” quantum chips of 72 and 105 qubits, the team ran surface code error-correction…
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