All past quantum technology news, in chronological order.
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Quantum Tech Digest: IonQ Wins Four Best Paper Awards at IEEE Quantum Week, Quantum Motion Extends Series C Funding
The quantum-tech news worth your attention today: IonQ wins four Best Paper Awards at IEEE Quantum Week, Quantum Motion extends its Series C round for silicon quantum hardware, Harvard researchers triple qubit coherence with sound waves, a new Sandia-led benchmark…
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Quantum Tech Digest: DOE Launches $215M Race for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers, IonQ and Synopsys Cut Simulation Times by 14.6%
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today: the US Department of Energy launches a $215M competition for a fault-tolerant quantum computer, IonQ and Synopsys speed up engineering simulations by up to 14.6%, IQM heads to Brazil, and…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Quantinuum Wins $100M US CHIPS Award, Chalmers Makes Quantum Operations 1,000x Faster
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Quantinuum Finalizes $100 Million US CHIPS Award for Trapped-Ion Manufacturing Quantinuum has finalized a $100 million research and development award from the…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Rigetti Cuts Qubit Overhead for Optimization Problems, Emergence Quantum and AirTrunk Team Up on Cryogenic Data Centers
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Rigetti Cuts Physical-Qubit Overhead for Optimization Problems With New Algorithm Researchers at Rigetti Computing, a California-based superconducting quantum computing company, published a…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Fujitsu Open-Sources OpenQARP Software Toolkit, Iceberg Quantum and Diraq Validate Pinnacle on Spin Qubits
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry today: Fujitsu open-sources its OpenQARP application toolkit, QNu Labs raises ₹200 crore for quantum-safe cybersecurity, Iceberg Quantum and Diraq validate the Pinnacle error-correction architecture on spin qubits, and a MITRE-led team builds a digital…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IBM and Lockheed Martin Launch Swiss Quantum Hub at ETH Zurich, Photonic Proposes $500M Canadian Chip Facility
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IBM and Lockheed Martin establish a Swiss quantum hub at ETH Zurich, Photonic proposes a $500M Canadian semiconductor facility, Qedma and HQC2…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Pasqal and True Nexus Encode Protein Structures on Quantum Hardware, Quantum Motion Extends Series C
Five developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Pasqal and True Nexus Encode Protein Structures on Neutral-Atom Quantum Hardware Pasqal, a global provider of neutral-atom quantum computers, and True Nexus,…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IonQ Unveils First Full-Stack Blueprint to Break 256-Bit Elliptic-Curve Signatures, QuantumCore Closes Avalanche PhotoniQ Acquisition
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IonQ Publishes First Full-Stack Blueprint for Breaking 256-Bit Elliptic-Curve Signatures IonQ published what it describes as the first fully compiled, end-to-end resource…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Infleqtion Partners With Cisco on Quantum Networking, Chalmers Hits 1,000x Speedup in Bosonic Error Correction
Five developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Infleqtion and Cisco Partner to Advance Networked Quantum Computing Infleqtion and Cisco announced a collaboration on September 10 to pursue joint research…
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Quantum Tech Digest: U.S. Commerce Dept. Takes $300M Equity Stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum, IQM Plans Europe’s First Logical-Qubit Computer
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. U.S. Commerce Department Takes $300M in Equity Stakes Across D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized definitive agreements…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IonQ Unveils Superion 256 With Chip-Based Qubit Control, SkyWater Opens Its Quantum Foundry to Outside Customers
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IonQ Launches Superion 256, Betting on Chip-Based Qubit Control to Scale Trapped-Ion Systems IonQ has introduced Superion 256, the first platform in…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IBM’s Nighthawk r2 Targets a 25x Circuit Speedup, PsiQuantum Finalizes $100M U.S. CHIPS Act Award
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IBM Unveils Nighthawk r2, Targeting a 25x Speedup in Quantum Circuits IBM has released Nighthawk r2, an upgraded version of its 120-qubit…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Jülich and eleQtron Switch On Germany’s JION Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer, QC Ware and IonQ Hit Chemical Accuracy in Drug Discovery
Three developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Jülich and eleQtron Switch On Germany’s JION Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer Forschungszentrum Jülich and eleQtron, a University of Siegen spinout, have officially inaugurated…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Diraq and Equinix Put a Quantum Computer Inside a Data Center, Xanadu Lands CAD $195M for Canadian Quantum Manufacturing
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Diraq and Equinix to Put Australia’s First Quantum Computer Inside a Commercial Data Center Diraq and Equinix have announced plans to install…
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Quantum Tech Digest: MIT’s Dual-Purpose Qubit Speeds Up Quantum Operations, George Mason Brings Virginia Its First Open-Architecture Quantum Computer
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. MIT’s Dual-Purpose Qubit Design Speeds Up Operations While Cutting Errors Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unveiled a new…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Quantinuum Signs MoU With Aramco to Explore Quantum Computing for Energy, Quantum Motion Extends Series C to Scale Silicon Qubits
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Quantinuum and Aramco Sign MoU to Explore Quantum Computing for the Energy Sector Quantinuum and Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil and gas…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Rigetti’s Quantum Preconditioning Speeds Classical Solvers Up to 100x, PsiQuantum Partners With Brookhaven Lab on Fault-Tolerant Algorithms
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Rigetti and Purdue Speed Up Classical Optimization With Quantum Preconditioning Rigetti Computing and Purdue University have unveiled a quantum preconditioning framework that…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IBM’s Nighthawk r2 Delivers 25x Faster Circuits, US Opens First Wireless Quantum Network Link
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IBM’s Nighthawk r2 Chip Cuts Circuit Runtimes With a New Qubit Reset Trick IBM has released Nighthawk r2, an upgraded version of…
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Quantum Tech Digest: QuEra Uses Claude to Fix Its Own Lasers, Photonic Publishes Efficient Error-Correction Codes in Nature
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. QuEra Uses Anthropic’s Claude to Teach a Quantum Computer to Fix Its Own Lasers QuEra Computing, working through the new Model Hardware…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Pasqal Debuts on Nasdaq With $360M, Cornell Cuts Tantalum Qubit Fabrication Heat in Half
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Pasqal Begins Trading on Nasdaq as PSQL After $360M SPAC Merger Pasqal, the neutral-atom quantum computing company, completed its business combination with…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Canada Backs Xanadu With C$195M for a Quantum Chip Plant, IonQ Cracks Real-Time Error Decoding
Four developments worth your attention: Canada commits C$195M to Xanadu’s new Toronto photonics manufacturing facility, IonQ demonstrates real-time quantum error-correction decoding on a single laptop-class CPU, a Padova team sends quantum keys 18 km through open air, and California funds…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Tsinghua Unveils “Cornucopia” Error-Correction Codes, Rigetti Restructures to Scale Quantum Deployments
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Tsinghua Researchers Unveil “Cornucopia” Codes for Ultra-Low-Overhead Quantum Error Correction Physicists Zhide Lu, Weikang Li and Dong-Ling Deng at Tsinghua University have…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Quantinuum Deploys Helios Inside Oracle’s Cloud, UCLA Wins $4M for a Fault-Tolerant Blueprint
Four developments worth your attention: Quantinuum and Oracle bring the Helios quantum computer inside an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center, a UCLA-led team wins $4M from the NSF to blueprint a 60-logical-qubit fault-tolerant machine, Canada launches a $20.3M Quantum Defence…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IBM Completes HRL Laboratories Acquisition, NSF Renews $37.5M Quantum Biosensing Institute
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories, Adding Silicon-Spin Qubit Expertise IBM (International Business Machines) said it has completed its acquisition of HRL…
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Quantum Tech Digest: First Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Lands on Mainnet, NASA Awards Infleqtion $20M for Space-Based Quantum Gravity Sensor
Three developments worth your attention: StarkWare demonstrates the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet without a protocol change, NASA awards Infleqtion $20M to continue developing a space-based quantum gravity sensor, and Q-CTRL completes a GPS-free quantum-gravimetric maritime navigation trial.
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Quantum Tech Digest: Princeton Leads $27.9M NSF Push to Fix Quantum Chip Manufacturing, Pasqal Expands Into Saudi Arabia
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Princeton to Lead $27.9M NSF Institute Tackling Quantum Chip Manufacturing The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $27.9 million over five…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Japan’s “Shunkai” Quantum Computer Goes Live, Pasqal Clears Nasdaq Vote
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Japan Brings “Shunkai,” Its First Full-Stack Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer, Online Infleqtion and a team led by Professor Kenji Ohmori at Japan’s Institute…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Diraq Opens First U.S. Quantum Lab in Chicago, IonQ Joins Canada’s Quantum Sandbox
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Diraq Opens First U.S. Quantum Laboratory in Chicago Diraq, an Australian company building quantum processors from silicon spin qubits, said it has…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IBM Connects Its First Modular Cryogenic Systems, Brookhaven and Stony Brook Achieve a Wireless Quantum Link
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IBM Connects Its First Modular Cryogenic Systems in Milestone Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing IBM (International Business Machines) said it has successfully joined…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Caltech Confirms Universal Patterns in Quantum Matter, Infleqtion Opens Colorado Quantum Hub
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Caltech Team Confirms Universal Patterns in Quantum Matter Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), working with theorists from Université Paris-Saclay…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Quantinuum’s Helios Lands on Oracle Cloud, QpiAI Opens Major Quantum Chip Foundry in India
Five developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today — a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Quantinuum Brings Its Helios Quantum Computer to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Quantinuum and Oracle announced a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy Quantinuum’s Helios…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Israel Launches National Quantum Computer Tender, Rigetti Discloses $100M CHIPS Act Backing
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…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Pasqal Puts Qubit Control On a Chip, Senators Move to Shield the Grid From Quantum Risk
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Pasqal Traps Atoms Using a Photonic Chip, Aiming to Shrink Future Quantum Processors Pasqal, working through its Canadian subsidiary Aeponyx, says it…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IBM and UChicago Verify Quantum Advantage, D-Wave Debuts High-Fidelity Two-Qubit Gate
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IBM and University of Chicago Verify Quantum Advantage on Logical Circuits IBM (International Business Machines) and researchers at the University of Chicago…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IonQ Posts Record Revenue After SkyWater Close, Rice Adds Temperature Control to Ion Simulators
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IonQ Posts Record Q2 Revenue as SkyWater Acquisition Reshapes the Business IonQ reported record second-quarter 2026 revenue of $80.1 million, up 287…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Chinese Startup Sets On-Chip Photonic Qubit Record, IQM Posts First Public Earnings
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Chinese Startup Sets New Record for On-Chip Photonic Qubits Hefei Sizhen Chip Technology (硅臻科技), working with Professor Ren Xifeng’s group at the…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Quanta Computer and Quantinuum Team Up on Scalable Hardware, DARPA Backs Qunnect’s Quantum Networks
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Quanta Computer and Quantinuum Partner to Build Industrial Foundation for Large-Scale Quantum Computing Taiwanese contract manufacturer Quanta Computer and trapped-ion quantum computing…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IonQ Launches Tennessee Quantum Network, NTT and OptQC Target Million-Qubit Optical Computer
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IonQ and EPB Launch Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center IonQ and Chattanooga-based fiber and power utility EPB (formerly Electric Power Board of…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Pasqal Puts Qubit Control On-Chip, Utah Launches Statewide Quantum Initiative
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Pasqal Traps Individual Atoms Using On-Chip Photonics for the First Time Pasqal, together with its subsidiary Aeponyx (acquired in 2025), announced what…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Quantinuum Posts First Earnings Since IPO, Announces Oracle Cloud Partnership
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Quantinuum Reports First Earnings Since IPO, Partners with Oracle on Cloud Deployment Quantinuum reported its first quarterly results as a public company,…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IBM and University of Chicago Verify Quantum Advantage, IonQ Posts Record Q2 Revenue
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IBM and University of Chicago Demonstrate Verified Quantum Advantage IBM and researchers from the University of Chicago (UChicago) announced a demonstration that…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Pasqal Clears SEC Hurdle for $2B Nasdaq Listing, Eaton Wins $7M Air Force Contract for Quantum Grid Security
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Pasqal Clears SEC Hurdle on Path to $2B Nasdaq Listing French neutral-atom quantum computing company Pasqal took a major step toward going…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IonQ and Sandia National Laboratories Sign MOU for Quantum Co-Design, Canada Launches Its First Quantum Defence Innovation Hub
Four developments worth your attention today: IonQ and Sandia National Laboratories partner on quantum co-design for U.S. national security, Canada launches its first Quantum Defence Innovation Secure Hub in Calgary, IQM posts its first results as a public company with…
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Quantum Tech Digest: D-Wave Demonstrates Nature-Published Breakthrough for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, NIST Sends Entangled Photons Through 62km of Real-World Fiber
Four developments worth your attention today: D-Wave’s Nature-published dual-rail hardware breakthrough for fault-tolerant gate-model computing, NIST’s real-world quantum entanglement demo over 62km of aerial fiber, DARPA’s $28M award to IonQ for next-generation atomic clocks, and AWS/JPMorganChase’s new toolkit for near-term…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IonQ and EPB Launch Commercial Quantum Memory Network, NTT and OptQC Target 1-Million-Qubit Optical Computer
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IonQ and EPB Launch Commercial Quantum Memory Network in Chattanooga IonQ and Chattanooga utility EPB (Electric Power Board of Chattanooga) have partnered…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Caltech and Oratomic Unveil High-Rate “Mitten” Error-Correcting Codes, IBM and Cleveland Clinic Build Quantum AI for Cancer Vaccines
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. Image: AI-generated (Gemini Nano Banana 2) Caltech and Oratomic Unveil High-Rate “Mitten” Error-Correcting Codes Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)…
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Quantum Tech Digest: IBM and University of Chicago Demonstrate Trusted Quantum Advantage, Quantinuum Unlocks Universal Topological Gates
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. IBM and University of Chicago Demonstrate Trusted Quantum Advantage IBM and researchers at the University of Chicago said they have cleared one…
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Quantum Tech Digest: Anthropic’s AI Cracks NIST Post-Quantum Candidate HAWK, Northwestern Demonstrates Quantum Internet Over Live Telecom Fiber
Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. AI Model Cracks NIST Post-Quantum Signature Candidate HAWK Anthropic said its Claude Mythos Preview model discovered an improved mathematical attack against HAWK,…
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Quantum Tech Digest: HRL Demonstrates Self-Operating Silicon Quantum Processor in Nature, IBM and Algorithmiq Claim Trusted Quantum Advantage
Three developments worth your attention today: HRL Laboratories’ self-operating silicon quantum processor published in Nature, IBM and Algorithmiq’s quantum advantage demonstration with a new trust framework, and EY Canada’s on-site quantum computer investment.
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Quantum Tech Digest: ZuriQ Raises $25.5M for 2D Trapped-Ion Chip, Horizon Quantum and Quantum Machines Team Up on Real-Time Calibration
Two developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk. ZuriQ Raises $25.5M to Scale a Two-Dimensional Trapped-Ion Architecture Swiss startup ZuriQ, a spin-out of ETH Zürich, has closed a $25.5 million…