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IonQ said on 22 September 2026 that its decoder kept pace with a simulated 408-logical-qubit machine on one Apple M4 Max chip, adding 0.02% to run time. On 23 September it said a Superion 256 will be installed at Nvidia's Boston quantum research centre in 2027.
Germany's research ministry has put a seven-member consortium led by the start-up QUDORA through to the next round of its contest to build a trapped-ion quantum computer with at least 1,000 physical and 50 logical qubits. The NFQC-1k project totals about €122m ($139.8m) over up to five years.
India's Defence Research and Development Organisation has signed a Technology Development Fund agreement with Zero mK India, a start-up in Alwar, Rajasthan, to develop a 20 millikelvin dilution refrigerator in India. The Ministry of Defence announced it on 24 September 2026.
Physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China, with a China State Shipbuilding Corporation laboratory, built a rubidium magnetometer with a 7 cm³ sensor head. Acta Physica Sinica posted their paper on 8 September 2026.
The Energy Department opened its Quantum Genesis Q Competition on 17 September 2026. It plans up to $215 million for a fault-tolerant machine of at least 100 logical qubits by 2028. DOE's own announcement says $2.5 million of that is Fiscal Year 2026 money.
Superion 256 deliveries are targeted for 2027. A separate IonQ study models a secp256k1 attack using 19,397 physical qubits with an estimated 63% success probability per attempt.
Fujitsu's diamond-spin prototype, Chalmers' theoretical Floquet method and Quantinuum's Helix experiments address hardware connections, control speed and error correction.
D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum have finalised CHIPS awards totalling up to $300 million under a programme requiring minority government equity stakes.
Quantinuum announced a memorandum of understanding with Aramco signed in Riyadh on 31 August. Read in full, it commits to technical onboarding, knowledge exchange and benchmarking. Aramco already has a rival's quantum computer installed and running.
QC Ware said on 1 September 2026 that a hybrid workflow on IonQ's Forte computer got within 0.5 kcal/mol of classical benchmarks for an enzyme active site. The quantum part was eight qubits, and the benchmark it was measured against is not named.
Pasqal began trading as PSQL on 28 August and closed its first session at $19.11. Shareholders redeemed 26,039,602 of 28,750,000 SPAC shares, and $250m of the cash at closing came from convertible bonds sold at a 20% discount.
IBM completed its purchase of HRL Laboratories on 26 August. The releases describe a whole second qubit modality. IBM's own quantum roadmap names spin qubits, silicon, HRL and Anderon zero times.
StarkWare spent a 10,000-satoshi output with a hash-based signature on Bitcoin mainnet on 26 August. We disassembled the locking script. It is 9,923 bytes against a 10,000-byte ceiling and exactly 201 opcodes against a limit of 201.
The two joined modules stand over eight feet tall, cool to 4 kelvin in under five days and settle below 15 millikelvin. Each carries twelve times the wiring space of IBM's existing quantum systems, which is the constraint that decides how many qubits fit in one machine.
Oracle and Quantinuum announced a multi-year partnership on 11 August to deploy Helios, the 98-qubit trapped-ion system, inside a US Oracle Cloud AI data centre, with an OCI quantum service to preview in the coming months.
Pasqal says it is the first to trap atoms on a quantum computer using light generated by a photonic chip rather than a bench of free-space optics. Four traps, four rubidium atoms, and an atom lifetime of about 27.5 seconds.
AT&T has signed an agreement to expand its use of D-Wave's annealing machines across network operations, after cutting one optimisation workload from about an hour to under 15 seconds. Here is what the deal covers, from outage response to technician routing.
IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, the Boeing- and GM-owned research lab, for its silicon-spin qubit expertise. It is a hedge: a second kind of qubit alongside the superconducting chips IBM has built its whole roadmap on.
DARPA has signed a $125m agreement with PsiQuantum, its largest US government award, to verify a path to a utility-scale quantum computer by 2033. What the money buys, and why that date belongs on a crypto and AI radar.
NEAR Protocol's 2.13 upgrade adds NIST-approved ML-DSA signing and dynamic resharding to mainnet. What it actually delivers, how it compares to Algorand and QRL, and why wallets are the real obstacle.
Quantum computing stocks completed a punishing week on 17 July, with IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave trading between 60 and 76 per cent below their 52 week highs after shedding a further 17 to 20 per cent in five sessions.
Classic McEliece achieved global ISO standardisation on 15 July under ISO/IEC 18033-2, becoming the first post-quantum cryptography algorithm to reach that status.
Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and EPCC signed a multi-year agreement on 14 July to test whether near term quantum hardware can accelerate computational fluid dynamics for gas turbine design.
Nvidia's quantum computing division released the Nvidia Ising decoder on 13 July, an open source model family that applies neural networks to quantum error correction.
The LUMI AI Factory selected IQM Quantum Computers on 8 July to deliver a 150 qubit superconducting system to Kajaani in Finland by 2027.
IBM published results on 3 July from its Quantum Credits programme, which provides free access to its most capable hardware for university faculty and research scientists.
IBM will commission one of India's first physical quantum computers in Amaravati by September 2026, installing an IBM Quantum System Two with a 156 qubit Heron processor.
IQM Quantum Computers began trading on Nasdaq on 2 July under the ticker IQMX, becoming the first European quantum computing company to list on a major American exchange.
Quantinuum announced a strategic collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise on 22 June to integrate quantum computing with high performance computing and artificial intelligence environments.
President Trump signed two quantum executive orders on 22 June, published in the Federal Register three days later. Executive Order 14412, Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks, mandates an accelerated government-wide migration to post-quantum cryptography.
Two new preprint studies from Google Quantum AI and Cornell University suggest quantum computers capable of breaking today’s encryption may arrive far sooner than expected, potentially before the end of this decade.
Google Quantum AI is inviting outsiders onto its most advanced quantum chip.
Alice & Bob has completed GPU-accelerated decoding of its proprietary Elevator Codes in 1 hour 57 minutes via NVIDIA CUDA-Q integration, demonstrating practical error correction for biased noise cat qubits.
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have demonstrated universal fault-tolerant quantum computation using code-switching, achieving quadratic suppression of logical error rates.
The UK commits over £1 billion to quantum computing research as part of a broader £2 billion national strategy, citing national security urgency and the race to commercialise next-generation computing.
IQM and Zurich Instruments are building a real-time QEC demonstrator combining a 20-qubit superconducting quantum computer with NVIDIA NVQLink for enterprise and datacentre deployment.
IBM has released the industry’s first quantum-centric supercomputing reference architecture, outlining a three-layer blueprint for integrating quantum processors with classical HPC resources.
IBM and an international team have created the first molecule with half-Möbius electronic topology, validated by quantum simulation showing helical electron orbitals that classical computers cannot replicate.
A team has used quantum capacitance to read Majorana qubit states for the first time, confirming millisecond-scale parity coherence times that demonstrate the protected nature of topological qubits.
The United States has reclassified 18 advanced technologies including quantum computing as critical to national security, granting the Commerce Department new authority to control exports.
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