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Labs kept shrinking the photonics stack and turning microwave noise into entanglement, while governments treated GPS denial and post-quantum migration as operational work. Europe still published more than it commercialized. Japan’s NEC left the hardware race. Makes ya'wonder!? The post The Qubit Report: September 7, 2026 appeared first on The Qubit Report .

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up for the week ending September 5, 2026 tracks factories, racks, and post-quantum links moving at the same time. Pasqal signed a multi-year quantum-safe research pact with KACST in Riyadh. Canada put CAD $195 million behind Xanadu’s Inception photonics plant. IBM published Nighthawk r2 at 120 qubits and more than 100,000 circuits per second. Diraq reserved an Equin…

Origin Wukong tests show up to 98% single-router transmission for QRAM on the 72-qubit third-generation chip. Physical Review X reports a two-layer network at 93% transmission and 82.4% random-access fidelity, two different metrics. Partner names, TCG method, and the Tian Feng caution sit in the full report. The post Origin Wukong Tests Show Up to 98% Single-Router Transmission for QRAM appeared …

Sparkle and Hellas Sat have run a live quantum-safe satellite connection on a 72,000 kilometer geostationary hop between Greece and Cyprus. The trial extends Sparkle Quantum Safe Interconnect, a software post-quantum overlay on IPsec, after a March ground PoC announcement. Quotes and the commercial evaluation plan sit in the full report. The post Sparkle and Hellas Sat Achieve Greece-Cyprus Quant…

Classiq signed a Scientek go-to-market agreement and a separate Kensho market-development partnership to expand Classiq quantum software in Taiwan. Scientek will work semiconductor, research, university and government accounts; Kensho will handle introductions, local support and training, with an early focus on chemical, materials and defense buyers. SEMICON Taiwan 2026 booths, executive remarks …

Fidelity Digital Assets published a September 1, 2026 research note on Bitcoin quantum resistance, written by Daniel Gray. The note says a future cryptographically relevant quantum computer could threaten ECDSA and Schnorr private-key control once public keys appear on chain. Readers can review the SHRINCS design, signature-size trade-offs, and the soft-fork path Fidelity outlines for holders and…

U.S. Representative Nick Langworthy introduced the American Quantum Competitiveness Act on August 31, 2026, making the Secretary of Commerce principal advisor to the President on commercial quantum technology and trusted supply chains. A public competitiveness strategy would be due within two years of enactment and every three years after. Full statutory duties, corridor geography, and industry q…

Arqit, Es’hailSat and AIEE Demonstrate Quantum-Safe Satellite Security Key Takeaways Live Network Test: Arqit, Es’hailSat, and AIEE applied quantum-safe encryption across live satellite-connected networks using Es’hail-1 and Es’hailSat’s Doha teleport. Existing Infrastructure: AIEE integrated the software on operational ground and network systems, with no reported impact on services or performanc…

Guo Yanliang spent more than a decade in France and Austria learning ultracold-atom physics, publishing in Science and Nature, then took his training back to Beijing. One move is a career choice. The pattern is a talent transfer. The post Europe Trains, China Recruits: Guo Yanliang and Another Case of Quantum Brain Drain appeared first on The Qubit Report .

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up for the week ending August 29, 2026 captures the week quantum computing became a public-market and public-policy story at the same time. Pasqal listed on Nasdaq with €309 million in cash. IBM closed its HRL Laboratories acquisition. NSF put $290 million behind eight Quantum Leap institutes, and Treasury stood up a financial-sector Quantum-Readiness Task Force. Fi…

Infleqtion has received a $20 million NASA follow-on contract for the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder, raising total program investment to $40 million. The JPL-led mission is designed to fly the first space-based quantum gravity sensor, with hardware work through 2027 and a targeted 2030 low-Earth orbit launch. Sensor architecture, microgravity testing plans, and the path to later science-…

Postquant Labs, the developer behind quantum computing protocol, quip.network, announces the imminent public launch of QuipSwap, its Bridgeless Swap Protocol, aimed at addressing the dual challenges of cross-chain security vulnerabilities and the looming threat to current cryptographic standards posed by its own quantum computing network. The post Postquant Labs Launches the First Quantum Cross-C…

Researchers at the University of Padua and ThinkQuantum have demonstrated intermodal quantum key distribution over an 18 km free-space link in northeastern Italy. Adaptive optics at a 410 mm urban telescope coupled the telecom-wavelength signal into single-mode fiber and produced secret keys at about 200 bit/s with room-temperature detectors. Link parameters, detector comparison, and network-desi…

China’s Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission has released a 2026–2030 action plan that identifies quantum science and technology among frontier technologies for cyberspace enterprises. The plan seeks stronger competitiveness, innovation capacity and industrial ecosystem development by 2030. Full coverage details the seven actions, core technology priorities and the absence of quantum-specific fu…

Photonic Inc. announced that Nature Communications has published its paper on SHYPS QLDPC codes for efficient quantum logic and error correction. In simulated comparisons, the codes used about 2× to 3.5× fewer physical qubits than comparably scaled surface-code encodings. Circuit-level results, Clifford compilation details, and architecture implications are in the journal article. The post Photon…

Pasqal and Eleven Ventures have agreed to form a commercial joint venture that will deploy multiple neutral-atom quantum computing systems inside Saudi Arabia and across the broader MENA region. The partnership also prioritizes building local talent so quantum capability is developed within the Kingdom rather than accessed remotely. Strategic leadership will be provided by HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bi…

NIST researchers have fabricated superconducting photon detectors measuring 0.1 mm—about 1,000 times wider than conventional nanowire designs. The architecture delivers a billion-fold reduction in dark counts while simplifying large-area fabrication. Technical details on current redistribution and application implications appear in the Optica paper and NIST release. The post NIST Researchers Scal…

The second international Quantum Datacenter Alliance (QDA) Forum will be held on October 1, 2026 at Battersea Power Station in London. This exclusive-access event brings together technical and business leaders from across the quantum and classical networking industries with a shared mission: accelerating the timelines to reach utility-scale distributed quantum computing. The post Quantum Datacent…

Cloudflare will host dedicated Q-Day and post-quantum cryptography sessions at Connect 2026 in San Francisco this October. The agenda includes talks by Sharon Goldberg on quantum threat preparation and Christopher Patton on Merkle Tree Certificates. Full session details and Cloudflare’s accelerated 2029 migration roadmap are covered. The post Cloudflare Connect 2026 to Feature Dedicated Sessions …