Daily Quantum Update for Friday, May 22, 2026
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Last Updated on Friday, May 22, 2026, at 08:11 AM EDT
Today’s quote: “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” – Richard Feynman
Today’s mentions: Atom Computing; Barcelona Supercomputing Center; China Telecom Quantum; D-Wave Quantum; DARPA; Deteqt; Diraq; Flatiron Institute; Hefei Unitary Quantum Technology Co., Ltd.; IBM; IDC; Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park; Infleqtion; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Origin Quantum; Pasqal; PQShield; Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech; Quantinuum; Quantum Bridge Technologies Inc; Toshiba
Today’s book: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne (Amazon affiliate link)
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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.
In the Spotlight
🔗 France’s Macron announces €1.5 billion for quantum computing, advanced microchips
Author: Dominique Patton
Source: Reuters
Other Categories: 💲 Investment and Funding, ⚛️ Quantum Computing, 🛂 Sovereign Initiatives
Geographies: 🇫🇷 France, 🌍 Europe
🔗 Quantum Dynamics Breakthrough Overturns Claim of ‘Quantum Supremacy’
Commentary: Result overturns paper by 63 authors. Many such advantage or supremacy papers have dozens of authors, presumably for the history books.
Organization Mentioned: Flatiron Institute
Source: Simons Foundation
Other Category: 🥼 Research
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🗽 New York
Investment, Funding, and Financial News
🔗 Washington Isn’t Funding Quantum Research. It’s Building Quantum Factories.
Author: Marin Ivezic
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
Other Category: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs
Geographies: 🌎 North America, 🍎 Washington
🔗 3 Colorado quantum-computing makers swap some equity for $100 million each in federal funding
Author: Tamara Chuang
Organizations Mentioned: Atom Computing; Infleqtion; Quantinuum
Source: The Colorado Sun
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Geographies: 🌎 North America, 🏔️ Colorado
🔗 Australian Quantum Sensor Company Raises Seed Funding
Organization Mentioned: Deteqt
Source: Marine Technology News News
Other Category: ⏲️ Quantum Sensing and Timing
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
Organization Mentioned: D-Wave Quantum
Source: D-Wave Quantum
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components
Organization Mentioned: Atom Computing
Source: Atom Computing
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America
Author: Francesca Elliott
Organizations Mentioned: DARPA; Diraq; National Institute of Standards and Technology
Source: News - Diraq
Other Categories: 🛦 Defense and Military, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔲 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Silicon Spin Qubits, 🛂 Sovereign Initiatives
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🌎 Oceania
Regional Initiatives
🔗 Future Ready, Future Proof: Science Olympiad Prepares Students for What’s Next
Author: Joel Dickens
Organization Mentioned: Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
Source: IQMP [Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park]
Other Category: 📖 Education, Training, Skills Development, and Workforce
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🏙️ Illinois
🔗 MTSU, Middle Tennessee Electric sign MOU to advance quantum research, tech hub in region
Source: MTSU News
Other Category: 🥼 Research
Geographies: 🌎 North America, 🎸 Tennessee
🔗 First-of-its-kind Report Positions Illinois as National Leader in Quantum Workforce Development
Author: Claire Salzman
Organization Mentioned: Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
Source: IQMP [Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park]
Other Category: 📖 Education, Training, Skills Development, and Workforce
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🏙️ Illinois
Sovereign and Government Initiatives
🔗 How Hefei’s ‘Quantum Avenue’ became a thriving innovation corridor
Author: Tian Xianjin
Organizations Mentioned: China Telecom Quantum; Hefei Unitary Quantum Technology Co., Ltd.; Origin Quantum
Source: People’s Daily Online
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Trapped Ion Qubits
Geographies: 🇨🇳 China, 🌏 Asia
🔗 Quantum Spain Is Complete. Here’s What Researchers Are Already Doing With It
Organizations Mentioned: Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech
Source: Qilimanjaro [Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech]
Other Category: 🥼 Research
Geographies: 🇪🇸 Spain, 🌍 Europe
🔗 IBM and the U.S. Department of Commerce Announce Anderon: America’s First Quantum Wafer Foundry
Author: Heather West
Organizations Mentioned: IBM and IDC
Source: rsshardware [IDC]
Other Categories: 🔍 Analysts, 🏭 Manufacturing
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America
People News
🔗 Diraq Founder & CEO Andrew Dzurak Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Author: Francesca Elliott
Organization Mentioned: Diraq
Source: News - Diraq
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔲 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Silicon Spin Qubits
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
🔗 Quantum Safe is the New Cloud Migration
Organization Mentioned: PQShield
Source: News | PQShield
Geography: 🇬🇧 UK
🔗 Crypto industry braces for quantum computing threat
Source: Technology
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Organizations Mentioned: Quantum Bridge Technologies Inc and Toshiba
Source: Toshiba Quantum Technology
Geographies: 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🌏 Asia, 🌎 North America, 🏢 Ontario
Quantum Sensing and Timing
🔗 Closing the Inspection Gap: Quantum Sensing Enters Production-Scale Semiconductor Failure Analysis
Authors: Heather West, Helen Chiang, and Jeff Janukowicz
Organization Mentioned: IDC
Source: rsshardware [IDC]
Other Category: 🔍 Analysts
Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance
Organization Mentioned: Pasqal
Source: Pasqal
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Neutral Atom Qubits
Geographies: 🇫🇷 France, 🌍 Europe
Quantum Computing Applications
🔗 How Can Quantum Computing Help Optimize Warehouses?
Organization Mentioned: D-Wave Quantum
Source: D-Wave [D-Wave Quantum]
Other Category: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
Quantum Computing Computer Science, Coding, and Software Development
🔗 A new way to think about quantum programming
Author: James Wootton
Source: MOTH
Other Category: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs
Quantum-HPC Integration
🔗 Oak Ridge Starts Weaving Together A Quantum, Classical HPC, And AI System Stack
Organization Mentioned: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Source: The Next Platform: In-depth coverage of high end computing
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🎸 Tennessee
Quantum Communications
🔗 DND and ISED launch $5.5M in challenges for Arctic optical comms and quantum repeaters
Author: Marc Boucher
Source: SpaceQ Media Inc.
Other Category: 🔦 Photonics
Photonics
🔗 ‘Flat-optics’ generation of entangled photons | Maria Chekhova (MPL, Erlangen)
Source: Munich Center for Quantum Science & Technology
Other Category: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
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Conference and Events Starting in the Next Four Weeks
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Monday, May 25, 2026
Mesoscopic Physics in the Era of Quantum Computing | Pollica, Italy – 📅 Save the date
QUANTUM NOW - DEFSEC | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – 📅 Save the date
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
IQM: Simulating Complex Materials with Quantum Chemistry and SQD | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
AFQC 2026 | Düsseldorf, Germany – 📅 Save the date
Danish Quantum Industry Day | Frederiksberg, Denmark – 📅 Save the date
Scaling a Chiplet-Based Superconducting Quantum Processor Toward Fault Tolerance | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, May 28, 2026
ZQCS Launch Event: Mastering the Long-Lived Logical Qubit | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Monday, June 1, 2026
2026 Summer Workshop on Quantum Machine Learning | Raleigh, North Carolina, USA – 📅 Save the date
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
9th Annual ScyLight Conference | Tenerife, Spain – 📅 Save the date
Microsoft Build 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Spintronics 2026 International Conference | Trondheim, Norway – 📅 Save the date
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
EU-wide Community Workshop on Quantum Gravimetry | Potsdam, Germany – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Thermodynamics and Decoherence | Rochester, NY – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Monday, June 8, 2026
London Tech Week | London, UK – 📅 Save the date
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Quantum Computing Summer School Fellowship | Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Technologies for Computation and Communication | Cargèse, France – 📅 Save the date
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Quantum Horizons Conference | Chicago, Illinois, USA – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Beyond Classical AI: Quantum Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection Across Industries | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
Monday, June 15, 2026
European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO) | Zurich, Switzerland – 📅 Save the date
Midsummer Conference on Open Quantum Systems, Decoherence, and the Quantum-to-Classical Crossover | Helsinki, Finland – 📅 Save the date
Optica Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition | Glasgow, Scotland, UK – 📅 Save the date
RISQ2 - 2nd Workshop on Radiation Impact on Superconducting Qubits | Madison, Wisconsin, USA – 📅 Save the date
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
France Quantum 2026 Summit | Paris, France – 📅 Save the date
The Economist Commercialising Quantum | London, England, United Kingdom – 📅 Save the date
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