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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
Authors: Atomique, Quantessa, and Yuval Boger
Source: Quantum Bits Comics
Other Category: 🎼 Quantum Algorithms
Quantum Bits With Quantessa and Atomique: The Comic Book Guide to Quantum Computing by Yuval S. Boger
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Investment, Funding, and Financial News
🔗 NSF Awards UC San Diego $18 Million Grant for Materials Science Research Center
Author: Mohib Ur Rehman
Source: The Quantum Insider
Organizations Mentioned: U.S. National Science Foundation and University of California, San Diego
Other Categories: 🧬 Quantum Computing Applications, 🧪 Quantum Computing Applications: Materials Science & Chemistry
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🐻 California
🔗 D-Wave and Nasdaq Verafin Announce Agreement for Quantum Computing Application Development
Source: D-Wave Quantum
Organization Mentioned: D-Wave Quantum
Other Category: 🧬 Quantum Computing Applications
Click to learn more and purchase: Dancing with Qubits, Second Edition - Packt
Sovereign and Government Initiatives
🔗 Australians want a say in emerging technologies
Source: @CSIROnews
Organization Mentioned: CSIRO
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
🔗 Quantum Meets Sovereignty: Who Owns the Future of Compute?
Author: Stuart Dee
Source: Demystifying Quantum Computing
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
🔗 HKMA Gives Hong Kong Banks a 2.3 Out of 10 on Quantum Readiness, Targets Full Migration by 2030
Author: Marin Ivezic
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
Other Category: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs
Geographies: 🇨🇳 China, 🌏 Asia
🔗 87% of Organizations Are Pursuing PQC. Only 7% Have Deployed It.
Author: Marin Ivezic
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
Organization Mentioned: DigiCert
Other Category: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs
Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance
🔗 Efficient atom rearrangements for quantum error correction primitives with a single AOD
Authors: Asier Piñeiro Orioli, Hugo Perrin, Samuel Crew, and Tom Hartweg
Source: arXiv.org
Organizations Mentioned: CNRS and Université de Strasbourg
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Neutral Atom Qubits, 🥼 Research
Geographies: 🇫🇷 France, 🌍 Europe
Quantum Computing Systems and Components
🔗 Quantum Computing’s “Dark Horse” Just Cleared a Major Hurdle
Author: Sarah C.P. Williams
Source: SciTechDaily
Organization Mentioned: University of Chicago
Other Category: 🥼 Research
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🏙️ Illinois
🔗 Quantum Fidelity-per-Cost: A Metric for Evaluation of Quantum Computing Systems
Authors: Jakub Szefer and Siddarth Shinde
Source: arXiv.org
Organizations Mentioned: Amazon Web Services; IBM; IonQ; IQM Quantum Computers Oy; Northwestern University; and Oxford Quantum Circuits
Other Category: 🥼 Research
Geographies: 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇬🇧 UK, 🇺🇸 United States, 🌍 Europe, 🌍 Nordics, 🌎 North America, 🏙️ Illinois
Quantum Sensing and Timing
🔗 Atomionics Expands Quantum Gravimetry Research Into Ocean Sensing
Author: Mohib Ur Rehman
Source: The Quantum Insider
Organization Mentioned: Atomionics Pte Ltd.
Geography: 🇸🇬 Singapore
Quantum Communications
🔗 Quantum Photons Survive a 24-Kilometer Journey Through Chicago’s Busy Internet
Author: Amanda Morris
Source: SciTechDaily
Organization Mentioned: Northwestern University
Other Categories: 🔦 Photonics, 🥼 Research
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🏙️ Illinois
Newsletters and Blogs
🔗 Launching a Quantum Startup? Look to Licensing University IP
Source: The Quantum Spin
Organization Mentioned: The Quantum Spin
🔗 I Spent a Year Writing About Europe’s Quantum Failures. Now I’m Moving My Company There.
Author: Marin Ivezic
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
🔗 Quantum Proofs of Concept - Explainer Deck
Author: Brian Lenahan
Source: Quantum’s Business
Author: Brian Lenahan
Source: Quantum’s Business
Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 Why Quantum? What Problem Are We Solving? | Roland de Putter | QGSS26
Source: Qiskit [IBM]
Organization Mentioned: IBM
Additional News and Announcements
🔗 The search for quantum advantage in differential equations
Source: IBM Research
Organization Mentioned: IBM
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
🔗 We Might Build the Most Powerful Computer in History and Have Nothing to Run on It
Source: Quantum Rings
Organization Mentioned: Quantum Rings
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
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Conference and Events Starting in the Next Four Weeks
Check out and bookmark our full listing of upcoming quantum-related conferences, events, and webinars. over the next several months. You can easily add them to your calendar directly from the listing.
Monday, August 3, 2026
Fault-Tolerant Quantum Technologies | Huesca, Spain – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Computing and Sensing for Weather and Climate Applications Workshop | Boulder, CO, USA – 📅 Save the date
Friday, August 7, 2026
2026 International Conference on Quantum Computing and Communication Technology – ICQCT 2026 | Hangzhou, China – 📅 Save the date
Monday, August 10, 2026
Fourth International Annual Quantum Simulation Conference (QSim 2026) | Amsterdam, Netherlands – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Texas Quantum Summit 2026 | Richardson, TX, USA – 📅 Save the date
Friday, August 14, 2026
Quantum AI Conference 2026 (QNLPAI 2026) | Indianapolis, Indiana, USA – 📅 Save the date
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Quantum Machine Learning | Bad Honnef Physics School, Bad Honnef, Germany – 📅 Save the date
Monday, August 17, 2026
Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control – CQIQC-XI | Toronto, Canada – 📅 Save the date
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Quantum Computational Sensing | Stanford, CA, USA – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Rethinking Energy Demand Forecasting with Quantum Machine Learning | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
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
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
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