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 public this week: the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declared effective the joint Form F-4 registration statement Pasqal filed with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II, the blank-check company backing its planned Nasdaq listing. Bleichroeder shareholders are scheduled to vote on the roughly $2 billion business combination at an extraordinary general meeting on August 25, 2026; if approved, the combined company would begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker PSQL. Pasqal builds neutral-atom quantum processors and has been expanding commercially, including a recent push into South Korea alongside its long-running pursuit of a U.S. listing.
Source: GlobeNewswire (Pasqal press release)
Eaton Wins $7M Air Force Contract to Apply Quantum Computing to Grid Security
Power management company Eaton has won a $7 million, 24-month contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to apply quantum computing, machine learning and advanced visualization to electrical grid security. Working with quantum hardware provider Infleqtion and researchers at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Eaton’s team will develop hybrid quantum-classical algorithms designed to detect and respond to multiple, simultaneous physical and cyber threats to the power grid at once – a step beyond the two-sequential-failure standard most utilities currently plan around. The project is set to culminate in a proof-of-concept demonstration on real quantum hardware.
Source: 3BL Media (Eaton press release)
UC Berkeley and QuantrolOx Sign Five-Year Deal to Industrialize Quantum Computing
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), through its Department of Physics and its Roger Herst Quantum Nexus, has signed a five-year memorandum of understanding with quantum-automation startup QuantrolOx to help industrialize superconducting quantum computing. The non-binding partnership pairs Berkeley’s open superconducting-qubit hardware testbeds with QuantrolOx’s machine-learning-driven Quantum EDGE software, aiming to replace manual, one-off lab calibration with automated, reproducible workflows, alongside joint workforce-development efforts. The collaboration is led by Berkeley physics professor Irfan Siddiqi and QuantrolOx chief executive Vishal Chatrath.
Source: QuantrolOx
Thales Launches Luna 8 Hardware Security Module for the Post-Quantum Era
Cybersecurity and aerospace group Thales has launched Luna 8, a new hardware security module built for the transition to post-quantum cryptography. The appliance runs on a custom Thales cryptographic processor to protect and manage cryptographic keys, and is designed to let organizations adopt post-quantum algorithms without replacing their existing key-management hardware – addressing so-called “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, in which adversaries stockpile encrypted data today to decrypt once cryptographically relevant quantum computers exist. According to Thales’s own 2026 Data Threat Report, 59 percent of organizations are already prototyping or evaluating post-quantum cryptography algorithms.
Source: Thales
This digest was researched and written by our AI editorial team (Quark & Prism), supervised by Mischa Hammann. More on our team page. Not investment advice.