Keywords: Quantum computing


Europe warns of quantum computing risks to Bitcoin and urges early preparations

European financial regulators are stepping up their scrutiny of the potential impact of quantum computing on digital finance, warning that advances in the technology could eventually undermine encryption systems used to protect financial transactions, communications, databases and blockchain networks. The......

China bets on quantum technologies to strengthen technological independence by 2035

China is placing quantum technologies at the center of its long-term development strategy, alongside artificial intelligence, photonics, advanced semiconductors and next-generation manufacturing. The objective is to build a stronger domestic technology base and reduce dependence on foreign capabilities......

IBM acquires HRL Laboratories to expand dual-track quantum computing strategy

IBM has agreed to acquire HRL Laboratories, a private research facility specializing in quantum technologies, as the technology giant expands its approach to developing next-generation quantum computers. The acquisition adds a new technological pathway to IBM’s existing quantum strategy, which......

Laptop challenges D-Wave claim of quantum computing supremacy

Physicists at the Flatiron Institute and Boston University have shown that a standard classical computer can solve a quantum dynamics problem that D-Wave Quantum previously described as impossible for conventional machines. Their findings challenge D-Wave’s widely publicized claim of quantum supremacy......

Nvidia invests in Alice & Bob quantum computing startup

Nvidia’s venture capital arm NVentures has invested in Paris-based quantum computing company Alice & Bob, extending the firm’s Series B funding round to 100 million euros. The company confirmed the deal on Friday, while financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The new capital......

China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 quantum system sets photon record

A team of scientists in China has developed a programmable quantum computing prototype that manipulates thousands of photons at once, marking a major milestone in optical quantum information processing. The system, called Jiuzhang 4.0, was created by researchers at the University of Science and Technology......

Moving qubits on a chip could unlock a scalable path to quantum computing

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have demonstrated for the first time that two-qubit logic gates can be performed on mobile electron spins traveling across a silicon chip — a breakthrough published in Nature on May 6, 2026, that could reshape the roadmap toward large-scale quantum......

Australian firm claims 3,000-fold quantum speedup over classical computing on real-world problem

Q-CTRL, an Australian quantum infrastructure software company, announced Tuesday that it has achieved what it describes as practical quantum advantage on a problem with direct commercial relevance, completing a materials science simulation in approximately two and a half minutes on IBM's 120-qubit......

Harvard AI decoder cuts quantum computing errors by up to 17 times

A series of recent breakthroughs highlights the growing convergence between quantum computing and artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical research, with major contributions from Harvard University, IBM, and Cleveland Clinic. On April 10, researchers at Harvard University unveiled “Cascade,”......