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Recent News
News and announcement items are categorized from top to bottom and are included in only one section. See the latest quantum computing research papers on arXiv.
Investment, Funding, and Financial News
🔗 D-Wave Investor Day 2026 - Full Event
Source: D-Wave [D-Wave Quantum]
Organization Mentioned: D-Wave Quantum
Other Category: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
Source: Dealroom.co
Organization Mentioned: Hangzhou Atomic Matrix Computing Co., Ltd.
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Neutral Atom Qubits
Geographies: 🇨🇳 China, 🌏 Asia
Regional Initiatives and Activities
🔗 Quantum first puts Queensland industry on front foot
Author: Gemma Johnson
Source: News - Quantum Australia
Organization Mentioned: Quantum Australia
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
Click to learn more and purchase: Dancing with Qubits, Second Edition - Packt
Quantum Computing Simulation and Emulation
🔗 Quantum simulators get error bars
Source: News [Universität Innsbruck]
Organization Mentioned: Universität Innsbruck
Geographies: 🇦🇹 Austria, 🌍 Europe
Quantum Computing Systems and Components
🔗 IBM Makes Quantum Cryogenics Modular, but Scaling Problems Remain
🔗 The Economist: More than the sum of all qubits: can networking unlock quantum’s next leap?
Source: Nu Quantum
Organization Mentioned: Nu Quantum
Other Categories: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars, 🕸️ Quantum Networking
Geography: 🇬🇧 UK
Author: Brian N. Siegelwax
Source: The Quantum Dragon (feat. IQT News)
Other Categories: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs, 🔲 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Superconducting Qubits
Quantum Networking
🔗 Stony Brook Researchers Earn Distinguished Paper Award for Rethinking Quantum Network Design
Author: Ellice Wallace
Source: SBU News [Stony Brook University]
Organizations Mentioned: Binghamton University and Stony Brook University
Other Category: 🥼 Research
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🗽 New York
Conferences and Events
🔗 Texas Quantum Strategy Takes Shape at UT Dallas Summit
Source: The Quantum Insider
Geographies: 🌎 North America, 🛢️ Texas
🔗 Community Journal Log: QuTiP at EuroSciPy 2026 Reflections
Source: Unitary Foundation blog
Organizations Mentioned: NVIDIA and Unitary Foundation
🔗 September 2026 is for quantum: IEEE Quantum Week 2026, IWQC, QRE, and beyond
Source: Xanadu Quantum Technologies
Organization Mentioned: Xanadu Quantum Technologies
Geographies: 🇨🇦 Canada, 🌎 North America, 🏢 Ontario
Newsletters and Blogs
Author: Russ Fein
Source: The Quantum Leap
Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 What is something you wish people knew about working at IBM Quantum? Ask a quantum intern.
Source: Qiskit [IBM]
Organization Mentioned: IBM
Additional News and Announcements
🔗 Who Will Actually Use Quantum Computers? Study Identifies 11 User Types
Author: Matt Swayne
Source: The Quantum Insider
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
🔗 BNN Interview: Iris Schwenk on Quantum Innovation, Leadership and Community
Author: Verena Kretschmer
Source: News - HQS Quantum Simulations
Organization Mentioned: HQS Quantum Simulations
Other Category: 🎙️ Interviews
Geographies: 🇩🇪 Germany, 🌍 Europe
🔗 Want to muck around with a real quantum computer? Now you can
Authors: Muhammad Usman and Principal Research Scientist
Source: English – The Conversation
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
🔗 memQ Explores Path to Quantum Scale-Out
Source: memQ
Organization Mentioned: memQ
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
🔗 Quantum Is Coming Into Its Next Era, the Age of Commercialization
Author: Cierra Lunde
Source: HKA – Marketing Communications
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Research
🔗 Excited state preparation on a quantum computer through adiabatic light-matter coupling
Author: Maria-Andreea Filip
Source: npj Quantum Information
🔗 FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Researchers Design Magnetically Levitated Quantum Bit
Source: Newswise News from Florida State University
🔗 Quantum Fluctuations Break a Crystal’s Symmetry Rules
Source: SciTechDaily
Author: Ido Schwartz
Source: npj Quantum Information
Other Category: 🔦 Photonics
Mathematics and Quantum Science
🔗 Universal Pattern Revealed in Quantum Matter
Source: News from www.caltech.edu [California Institute of Technology]
Organizations Mentioned: California Institute of Technology; DARPA; Oratomic; Technische Universität München; and U.S. National Science Foundation
Geographies: 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇺🇸 United States, 🌍 Europe, 🌎 North America, 🐻 California
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Conference and Events Starting in the Next Four Weeks
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Monday, August 24, 2026
AQIS 2026 - 26th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference | Daejeon, South Korea – 📅 Save the date
QCrypt 2026 | Ottawa, Canada – 📅 Save the date
YQIS 2026 - 9th International Conference for Young Quantum Information Scientists | Vienna, Austria – 📅 Save the date
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Superconducting Qubits and Algorithms (SQA) Conference 2026 | Gothenburg, Sweden – 📅 Save the date
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Quantum Error Correction/Detection and Dynamical Decoupling: Better Together or Apart? | Online – 📅 Save the date
Monday, August 31, 2026
DeepFest 2026 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – 📅 Save the date
EQAI 2026 – 5th European Summer School on Quantum AI | Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy – 📅 Save the date
Photon 2026 | Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom – 📅 Save the date
Q-Camp 2026 - Quantum Summer School | Gdańsk, Poland – 📅 Save the date
QALYPSO 2026 | Malta – 📅 Save the date
Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop 2026 (SiQEW 2026) | Incheon, South Korea – 📅 Save the date
Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC) | Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Post-Quantum Security Summit 2026 | Singapore – 📅 Save the date
Monday, September 7, 2026
Atomic Quantum Matter 2026 | Klosterneuburg, Austria – 📅 Save the date
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Finnish Quantum Days 2026 | Jyväskylä, Finland – 📅 Save the date
Q2B Copenhagen | Copenhagen, Denmark – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Expo Korea 2026 | Seoul, South Korea – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Roundabout 2026 | Nottingham, United Kingdom – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Quantum Security Awareness (Electricity Edition): Quantum-Safe Grid Operations – OT Trust Anchors, Safety, and Decades-Long Lifecycles | Webinar – 📅 Save the date
Sunday, September 13, 2026
AI for Circuit Synthesis, Optimization, and Discovery (AI4QC) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 📅 Save the date
AQMCSE 2026 | Delft, Netherlands – 📅 Save the date
IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 📅 Save the date
Monday, September 14, 2026
UIK Summer School: Fundamental Science with Quantum Computers and Simulators | San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain – 📅 Save the date
VCQ & quantA Summer School 2026 - Reaching Quantum Advantage: Foundations to Application | Vienna, Austria – 📅 Save the date
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Quantum Leap Career Nexus 2026 | College Park, Maryland, USA – 📅 Save the date
Friday, September 18, 2026
Quantum Security Awareness (Banking Edition): Trust Anchors at Bank Scale – PKI, Signing, and Long-Lived Evidence | Webinar – 📅 Save the date
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