Yet there are great fears that by their very nature, quantum networks present a huge security risk.
Toshiba regards the arrival of QSN as marking a major step towards delivering true scalability, flexibility and greater efficiency in the deployment of quantum-safe networks.
By simplifying the deployment of quantum-safe networks and improving the economics of expanding across multiple sites, Toshiba claims the platform helps turn the quantum-safe transition into a strategic advantage.
It believes the QSN Platform supports this expansion through a range of capabilities that reduce complexity, footprint and cost.
Toshiba QSN Platform has been designed to provide a practical path to quantum-safe network adoption.”
Oct 26, 2026 · via computerweekly.com
A new study with support from FAPESP proposes circumventing this problem by utilizing a unique property of a certain type of qubit called an “Andreev qubit.”
According to the authors, this method could eliminate the need for ancillas, auxiliary qubits used in current techniques for non-destructive quantum readout.
In many of these protocols, the qubit’s information is transferred to an auxiliary quantum system called an ancilla.
These states, known as “Andreev states,” are produced by this process and confined to the nanoscale region separating two superconducting materials.
A signature of the quantum state Any qubit state can be geometrically represented by a point on the so-called “Bloch sphere.”
Oct 26, 2026 · via thequantuminsider.com
“Preparing for the quantum threat needs to start now, rather than waiting until quantum computers can break the encryption systems we rely on.
Some predictions place the quantum computing breakthrough between 2030 and 2035, while others suggest it could take longer.
He explained that post-quantum cryptography offers one way to address the emerging threat, using algorithms designed to resist attacks from quantum computers.
Bialoglowy said ITSEC Asia would continue working with ITB, BRIN and KORIKA to raise quantum readiness in Indonesia.
“AICX brings quantum, AI and cybersecurity into one conversation because the three will have to be secured together.
Oct 25, 2026 · via techreviewafrica.com
IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and the University of Cambridge have launched what they describe as the first university-based Quantum Innovation Centre.
The Centre will host joint research projects across fields such as finance, engineering, and medicine using IonQ quantum systems.
The launch of the Quantum Innovation Centre at Cambridge, with on-site IonQ hardware and networking, is worth weighing against the rest of our findings.
For readers tracking how quantum computing is moving from lab concept to real-world deployment, this is a useful moment to scan 25 quantum computing stocks.
What IonQ's Cambridge centre signals for the long game The Cambridge Quantum Innovation Centre plugs directly into IonQ's Narrative catalyst around building a full quantum platform across computing, networking, sensing and security.
Oct 24, 2026 · via finance.yahoo.com
EY has appointed Dr. Philip Intallura as Partner, Global Quantum Leader.
Dr. Intallura previously led the quantum technology program at HSBC, overseeing its transition from exploratory research into operational and strategic banking workflows.
IQM Quantum Computers has appointed Dr. Voica Radescu as Director of Commercial Partnerships.
Sparrow Quantum has appointed its founder and former Chief Quantum Officer, Professor Peter Lodahl, as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Symmatrics has appointed veteran national security and intelligence executive Andrew Hallman to its Strategic Advisory Board.
Oct 24, 2026 · via quantumcomputingreport.com
However, others believe something more theoretical must be involved to explain our complex perception—quantum physics.
In a 2024 paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Entropy, Neven proposes his own experiment to test the idea of quantum consciousness.
If scientists managed to successfully entangle a brain with a quantum computer, it could lead to higher levels of thinking, creativity, and understanding.
Neven’s quantum theory of consciousness builds upon a framework first proposed by English mathematician Roger Penrose, PhD.
According to Neven, consciousness occurs when a superposition forms rather than when it collapses.
Oct 24, 2026 · via popularmechanics.com
Quantum computers promise an incredible leap forward in terms of performance, but a lot of that promise is still locked away as potential.
The quantum computers we have today are relatively small-scale, limited prototypes of what might eventually be possible.
The qubits inside quantum computers can be 1, 0, or anywhere in between (existing in a superposition), until they're measured – and that's where the exponential upgrade in calculations comes from.
It was collective behavior emerging across the quantum system," says physicist Haining Pan, from the University of Florida.
Quantum computers won't become standard household gadgets like regular computers any time soon, but they will help in high-level, incredibly complex information processing tasks: testing drug development, forecasting the weather, simulating materials, powering AI, and much more.
Oct 23, 2026 · via sciencealert.com
Their approach can simulate the entire optical cycle, including a particularly difficult process known as internal conversion.
The method may also prove useful for studying materials involved in renewable energy conversion and storage.
How Quantum Defects Lose Energy When a laser excites a spin defect, the defect can return to its original, lower-energy state through several different processes.
"What we found is that this internal conversion process turns out to be more important than we thought."
"We provided the missing piece of the puzzle needed to completely describe the optical cycle of spin defects," Galli said.
Oct 23, 2026 · via sciencedaily.com
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Oct 23, 2026 · via newspressnow.com
Telefónica and IQM Quantum Computers, a global leader in superconducting quantum computing, have joined forces to deploy the first quantum computer in the Community of Madrid.
The computer will join the other two quantum computers provided by Telefónica and IQM to CESGA (Galician Supercomputing Centre).
This deal represents an important step forward for Madrid and for Europe in its ambition to lead the development of quantum computing."
About IQM Quantum Computers IQM Quantum Computers (Nasdaq: IQMX) is a global leader in superconducting quantum computers, delivering full-stack quantum computers and cloud platform access to enterprises, research institutions, universities, high-performance computing centers, and national laboratories worldwide.
About Telefónica Telefónica is one of the world’s leading telecommunications service providers.
Oct 23, 2026 · via morningstar.com
In fact, all nine prize-winning teams used IBM quantum computers during their research for the challenge, and six of them relied on IBM quantum computers exclusively.
Two winning teams that used IBM quantum computers have already launched companies based on their work: Q4Health and EntangleTune.
The team applied quantum Krylov learning and quantum state transfer, running its final results entirely on IBM quantum computers.
Running only on IBM quantum computers, its end-to-end pipeline uses shallow circuits and generates a frame in about 30 seconds.
Shionogi tested its approach on IBM quantum computers during the challenge, though its final results were produced by simulation.
Oct 23, 2026 · via ibm.com
European superconducting quantum hardware provider IQM Quantum Computers and NVIDIA have demonstrated the agentic AI calibration of a 20-qubit IQM superconducting quantum processor using specialized NVIDIA Ising Calibration vision-language models (VLMs).
Integrated directly into IQM’s proprietary hardware control and calibration software, the agentic VLM stack analyzed raw experimental tuning charts, autonomously determined optimal parameter adjustments, and executed dynamic bring-up routines across all 20 physical qubits.
The workflow automatically identified out-of-bounds qubit parameter settings, dynamically adjusted measurement parameter ranges, and generated plain-English diagnostic logs explaining each calibration decision for human auditability.
Each chart presents six diagnostic questions evaluating a model’s ability to identify parameter anomalies and select corrective actions.
On the public QCalEval leaderboard, specialized NVIDIA Ising Calibration models scored up to 19 points higher than general-purpose vision-language models.
Oct 23, 2026 · via quantumcomputingreport.com
Insider Brief Google Quantum AI launched a $150,000 Kaggle competition to develop smaller, more efficient quantum circuits for calculations related to fusion energy, optimization and chemistry.
Google Quantum AI is launching a competition to use artificial intelligence to shrink the circuits needed for useful quantum computing.
According to Google’s announcement, the competition draws on a method that allows conventional computers to efficiently test a particular class of quantum circuits.
Reducing the Cost of a Calculation A quantum circuit is a sequence of operations used to carry out a calculation.
For a general quantum circuit, a conventional computer may need to track an enormous number of possible states.
Oct 23, 2026 · via thequantuminsider.com
Investors view quantum computing as the next frontier hardware play in the wake of artificial intelligence.
Take IonQ (IONQ -3.47%) and Rigetti Computing (RGTI -4.73%).
A look at Rigetti Computing Rigetti Computing boasts several strengths.
IONQ - IonQ $31.16-$1.12 (-3.47%) NYSE · As of 4:00 PM ET 10/22/26 Premium Feature Key data points Market capMarket cap calculated using publicly traded shares outstanding only.
IonQ's cash, cash equivalents, and investments totaled a substantial $3 billion at the end of Q2, but ideally, it will look to rein in its acquisitions.
Oct 23, 2026 · via fool.com
At Quantinuum, we’ve already demonstrated numerous QEC codes, all the primitives needed for logical computation, steadily declining logical error rates, and full computations at the logical level.
This logical error rate is ten times lower than our September record and more than 100 times lower than the record achieved on a superconducting system.
This nearly “six nines” result sets a new record for logical accuracy through quantum error correction.
Comparing at the same code distance, the previous best demonstrated error rate was using a surface code.
The white circles represent physical qubits, and the animation shows how logical qubits are formed at color code distances of 3, 5, and 7.
Oct 22, 2026 · via quantinuum.com
Black Kite, provider of third-party cyber risk management solutions, announced the release of Quantum Readiness, a new set of controls within the SSL/TLS Strength category of the Black Kite Cyber Rating that evaluates quantum agility across an organization’s third-party vendor ecosystem.
“We built Quantum Readiness to give customers early visibility into quantum agility across their supply chains and help them understand which vendors are preparing for one of the most significant cryptographic transitions ahead.”
“Quantum readiness cannot stop at the agency perimeter,” said Megan Rolander, Public Sector Director, Black Kite.
Black Kite gives agencies visibility into quantum agility across that broader ecosystem before these requirements become more urgent.”
Measuring quantum agility provides an important signal of how mature an organization’s security program is and whether they are taking the steps necessary to prepare for the coming quantum era.”
Oct 22, 2026 · via industrialcyber.co
The company acts as an abstraction layer: developers write code in standard Python, and RhymeQ’s compilers translate it into instructions that quantum hardware can run.
The funds will expand its engineering team, develop an enterprise platform for Rhyme, and build a global community of Rhyme developers.
Volz regards Horizon Quantum, based in Singapore, and Classiq, based in Tel Aviv, as the most pertinent quantum software companies, yet he views them as partners.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its engineering team, to develop an enterprise platform for Rhyme, and to establish a global community of Rhyme developers.
Volz believes the hardware is now ready for the software to advance, and RhymeQ aims for Rhyme to become the primary way developers program quantum computers “as error-corrected hardware arrives.”
Oct 22, 2026 · via techfundingnews.com
Continue » How quantum computing differs from traditional computing First, a short primer on quantum computing: The phone or laptop you're reading this on processes information using bits -- 0s and 1s.
D-Wave's approach to commercial quantum computing D-Wave's "quantum annealing" approach is especially good at optimization.
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Oct 22, 2026 · via finance.yahoo.com
Six quantum computing companies went public in 2026, and most investors still cannot name more than two of them.
Meanwhile, two newer listings are doing the less glamorous work of actually building and shipping quantum machines to paying customers.
It builds superconducting quantum computers, crates them up, and installs them in the customer's building.
The central problem in quantum computing is that qubits make errors constantly, and a useful machine needs to catch and fix those errors faster than they pile up.
That is a quantum company moving from hand-built lab equipment toward something resembling a semiconductor supply chain.
Oct 22, 2026 · via fool.com
Insider Brief RhymeQ raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding to develop software designed to let Python developers program quantum computers.
Its Rhyme compiler translates conventional code for multiple quantum processors and NVIDIA CUDA-Q, supporting both quantum simulators and hardware.
Quantum computers promise to solve significant problems and expand the reach of supercomputing and AI, for instance in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, finance, or manufacturing.
The actual coding is familiar and conventional, while the company’s compilers handle the translation for quantum computers.
RhymeQ will also partner with quantum hardware companies to integrate their existing software libraries with Rhyme.
Oct 22, 2026 · via thequantuminsider.com