Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk.
Israel Launches Government Tender for a Sovereign National Quantum Computer
Israel’s National AI Directorate, operating within the Prime Minister’s Office, published a government tender for what it calls Project Nexus: a nationally owned quantum-computing platform to be designed and manufactured on Israeli soil. The initiative falls under Government Decision 4255, a roughly NIS 5 billion (about $1.66 billion) national AI strategy overseen jointly by the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Finance’s Accountant General, with officials framing the goal as achieving “technological sovereignty” in AI and quantum technology rather than relying on foreign-built systems. Private companies and academic institutions will now compete for the contract; no winning bidder or dedicated budget for this specific project has been disclosed yet.
Source: The Times of Israel
Rigetti Reports 185% Revenue Growth, Discloses $100M CHIPS Act Letter of Intent
Rigetti Computing reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $5.1 million, up 185 percent year over year on sales of its on-premises Novera quantum processing units, even as its operating loss widened to $28.1 million amid higher R&D spending. The company also disclosed a Letter of Intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce for up to $100 million under the CHIPS Act (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors Act) to support domestic manufacturing of its superconducting processors over the next three years.
Source: Rigetti Computing
QuiX Quantum Ships Alquor 2.0, a Rack-Mountable Photonic Processor
QuiX Quantum began commercial shipments of Alquor 2.0, the second generation of its rack-mountable photonic quantum processor, offered in 8-, 20-, and 32-mode configurations built on the company’s silicon-nitride photonic chips and a new control-electronics platform it calls the Photonic Assembly Control Unit. The system targets research groups running boson-sampling, quantum-communication, and linear-optical quantum-computing experiments who want to move off manually aligned optical tables and onto a programmable, thermally stable unit that can be calibrated once and reused. QuiX Quantum says more than 20 systems are already deployed, making Alquor one of the more established commercial photonic-processor platforms in the field.
Source: QuiX Quantum
UCLA-Led Consortium Wins $4M NSF Grant to Design a 60-Logical-Qubit Machine
A consortium led by UCLA, with physics professor Eric Hudson as principal investigator, won a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)‘s National Quantum Virtual Laboratory program for a project called FTL: Accelerating Fault-Tolerant Quantum Logic, which aims to design a trapped-ion quantum computer capable of running 60 error-corrected logical qubits. The team spans UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Cornell University, the University of Maryland, and Quantinuum, and will build on a Quantum Charge-Coupled Device (QCCD) architecture that physically shuttles trapped ions between processing zones to suppress environmental noise. The group frames the project as a blueprint for a fault-tolerant machine capable of digital simulations beyond the reach of classical supercomputers.
Source: UCLA
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