Latest Quantum Industry & Ecosystem News
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Nov- 2025 -4 NovemberIndustry
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 is expected to provide around $500 million in gross proceeds for the company’s expansionthequantuminsider.com. Once completed, Xanadu will become the world’s…
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1 NovemberIndustry
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 opened a public consultation (Call for Evidence) for stakeholders to help shape this Quantum Act, which is slated for adoption…
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1 NovemberIndustry
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 - reportedly with over ¥40 million (~$5.6 million) in orders from customers. One unit has already been delivered to a subsidiary of China…
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Oct- 2025 -29 OctoberIndustry
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, which operates one of the world’s largest content delivery and security networks handling a significant chunk of global internet traffic,…
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29 OctoberIndustry
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 system supports a broad ecosystem - connecting 17 different quantum hardware platforms (from startups like IonQ, Pasqal, Quantinuum, Rigetti and…
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12 OctoberIndustry
🏆 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 an award. It’s where this recognition came from - and what it signals about the future of cybersecurity itself. Cybercrime…
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7 OctoberIndustry
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 that a system big enough to hold in your hand can still display the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics. Their…
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6 OctoberIndustry
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 worldwide on their preparations for quantum-enabled cyber threats. The results reveal a widening gap between rising awareness and lagging action…
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3 OctoberIndustry
Italy’s Largest Quantum Computer Built on Open Architecture Debuts in Naples
The University of Naples Federico II unveiled the country’s most powerful quantum computer - a 64-qubit system assembled using a revolutionary modular design. Powered by a Tenor quantum processing unit (QPU) from Dutch startup QuantWare, this machine now stands as Italy’s largest quantum computer, marking a national milestone in quantum technology. The Tenor chip, containing 64 superconducting qubits, was delivered…
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Sep- 2025 -25 SeptemberResearch
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 through at a quoted price - a significant leap over standard classical methods. The news, trumpeted in a joint press…
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Aug- 2025 -30 AugustIndustry
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 the quantum technology job market is really asking for in terms of skills, academic degrees, and training pathways. Covering a…
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29 AugustIndustry
Japan Launches First Homegrown Quantum Computer, Marking a Quantum Sovereignty Milestone
Japan has officially switched on its first quantum computer built entirely with homegrown technology. The new superconducting system went live on July 28, 2025 at Osaka University’s Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB) - a landmark achievement that makes Japan one of the few countries to develop a quantum computer without foreign components. University representatives confirmed that all…
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15 AugustIndustry
Jiuzhang 4.0: 3,050 Photons, 25.6 Microseconds, and a Direct Answer to the Algorithm That Threatened Photonic Quantum Advantage
15 Aug 2025 - A research team led by Pan Jianwei and Lu Chao-Yang at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with Tsinghua University and Jiuzhang Quantum Technology Co. Ltd., has demonstrated the largest photonic quantum advantage experiment ever conducted. Their new processor, Jiuzhang 4.0, injected 1,024 high-efficiency squeezed states of light into a programmable…
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12 AugustResearch
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: very low-cost magic state preparation for biased-noise qubits”, describes an error-correction scheme dubbed the “unfolded code” that leverages the unique…
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1 AugustIndustry
IBM Launches Heron R3 (ibm_pittsburgh): ~350 µS T2 and a Quality Upgrade for Its 156‑Qubit Platform
IBM has rolled out Heron r3, a new revision of its Heron processor family, debuting on the IBM Quantum Platform as ibm_pittsburgh in late July 2025. The headline change is quality, not scale: r3 keeps the 156‑qubit heavy‑hex design introduced with Heron r2, but IBM says targeted manufacturing improvements boost coherence, gate fidelity, and readout, including an ~350 µs T2 figure highlighted in the launch note. Strategically, r3 reinforces…
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