Daily Quantum Update for Thursday, May 28, 2026
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Last Updated on Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 08:04 AM EDT
Today’s quote: “Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it’s own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” – Neils Bohr
Today’s mentions: Atom Computing; Cornell University; D-Wave Quantum; Diraq; EeroQ; finQbit; GlobalFoundries Inc.; Harvard University; IBM; Infleqtion; Microsoft; Oxford Quantum Circuits; PsiQuantum; Quantinuum; Quantum Australia; Quantum Flagship; Quantum Rings; QURECA Ltd; Rigetti Computing; SEALSQ Corp; Sutor Group Intelligence and Advisory; The University of Osaka; Université de Genève
Today’s book: Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan (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
🔗 Recent and Planned Upcoming Quantum Company Public Listings
Author: Bob Sutor
Organization Mentioned: Sutor Group Intelligence and Advisory
Source: Quantum Tech, Investment, and Applications – Sutor Group [Sutor Group Intelligence and Advisory]
Other Category: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs
Investment, Funding, and Financial News
🔗 From Research to Revenue — Sierra Clouse on Building Deep Tech Pathways
Author: Amir Rasool
Organization Mentioned: Microsoft
Source: Beyond the Bit: Quantum Pathways
Other Category: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 Uncle Sam Awards $2 Billion-Plus To Quantum Companies, But Wants A Cut
Author: Jeff Burt
Organizations Mentioned: Atom Computing; D-Wave Quantum; Diraq; GlobalFoundries Inc.; IBM; Infleqtion; PsiQuantum; Quantinuum
Source: The Next Platform: In-depth coverage of high end computing
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔦 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Photonic Qubits, 🔲 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Silicon Spin Qubits, 🔲 Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
Regional Initiatives and Activities
🔗 Quantum facility advances with $13.5M from Duffield Engineering
Author: Jarrett Anthony
Organization Mentioned: Cornell University
Source: News Archive - Quantum Science & Engineering [Cornell University]
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🗽 New York
Sovereign and Government Initiatives
🔗 Sovereign Quantum Computing for UK Defence
Organization Mentioned: Oxford Quantum Circuits
Source: OQC [Oxford Quantum Circuits]
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Geographies: 🇬🇧 UK, 🌍 Europe
🔗 QURECA joins the European Quantum Academy
Author: Maninder Kaur
Organization Mentioned: QURECA Ltd
Source: Qureca [QURECA Ltd]
Other Category: 📖 Education, Training, Skills Development, and Workforce
Geographies: 🇬🇧 UK, 🌍 Europe
Organization Mentioned: Quantum Flagship
Source: Quantum Flagship
Geographies: 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🌍 Europe
Education, Training, Skills Development, and Workforce
Organization Mentioned: IBM
Source: Qiskit [IBM]
Other Category: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 Qiskit QuantumKatas: Adapting Microsoft’s Quantum Computing exercises for LLM evaluation
Authors: Ismael Faro and Juan Cruz-Benito
Organizations Mentioned: IBM and Microsoft
Source: arXiv.org
Other Categories: 💻 Quantum Computing Computer Science, Coding, and Software Development, 🥼 Research
Real Estate, Sites, and Facilities
🔗 Infleqtion Expands UK Quantum Operations with New Oxford Innovation Centre and Manufacturing Hub
Author: Lauren Roady
Organization Mentioned: Infleqtion
Source: Infleqtion
Other Category: 🏭 Manufacturing
Geographies: 🇬🇧 UK, 🌍 Europe
Conferences and Events
🔗 Sebastian Zając at Quantum & AI Conference
Author: Tomasz Cwik
Organization Mentioned: finQbit
Source: finQbit
Geographies: 🇵🇱 Poland, 🌍 Europe
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
Organizations Mentioned: EeroQ and SEALSQ Corp
Source: Investors News Releases [SEALSQ Corp]
Geographies: 🇫🇷 France, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🌍 Europe, 🏙️ Illinois
Quantum Sensing and Timing
🔗 First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from
Author: Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Source: New Scientist - Home
Other Category: 🔬 Mathematics and Quantum Science
Quantum Networking
🔗 Toward Scalable Heterogeneous Quantum Networks: Microwave-Optical Transduction Across Platforms
Authors: Jaiyan Sadid Ifty, Khondokar Zahin, and Tarvir Anjum Aditto
Source: arXiv.org
Other Categories: 🔦 Photonics, 🥼 Research
Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance
🔗 Homomorphic Quantum Error Correction
Authors: Kornikar Sen and Miguel A. Martin-Delgado
Source: arXiv.org
Other Category: 🥼 Research
Quantum Computing Systems and Components
🔗 Cobalt honeycombs open a new path to quantum computing
Organization Mentioned: The University of Osaka
Source: Asia Research News
Geographies: 🇯🇵 Japan, 🌏 Asia
🔗 Rigetti Cepheus-1-108Q QPU Available on Open Quantum
Author: Bob Wold
Organizations Mentioned: Quantum Rings and Rigetti Computing
Source: News - Quantum Rings
🔗 Quantum Computers: Very Expensive. Why?
Organization Mentioned: IBM
Source: Thinking On Paper
Other Category: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
Newsletters and Blogs
🔗 100 New Preprints Every Single Day
Author: Brian N. Siegelwax
Source: The Quantum Dragon (feat. IQT News)
Additional News and Announcements
🔗 Quantum Australia welcomes SYSTRA as an Industry Support Partner
Author: Gemma Johnson
Organization Mentioned: Quantum Australia
Source: News - Quantum Australia
Other Category: 👥 Partnerships
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
🔗 Lessons from ancient, modern, quantum worlds
Author: Terry Murphy
Organization Mentioned: Harvard University
Source: Harvard Gazette [Harvard University]
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🎓 Massachusetts
Mathematics and Quantum Science
🔗 The strange quantum property of tomorrow’s insulator
Organization Mentioned: Université de Genève
Source: University of Geneva in the news [Université de Genève]
Geography: 🇨🇭 Switzerland
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Conference and Events Starting in the Next Four Weeks
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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
Discovering Post-Quantum Cryptography – Mastercard | London, England, UK – 📅 Save the date
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
Photonics for Quantum | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada – 📅 Save the date
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
Sunday, June 21, 2026
7th Seefeld Workshop on Quantum Information | Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Information 2026 | Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria – 📅 Save the date
Monday, June 22, 2026
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
QSNS 2026 – 3rd Workshop on Quantum-Secure Networks and Systems | Vilamoura, Portugal – 📅 Save the date
Quantum for International (Q4I) Workshop | Rome, New York, USA – 📅 Save the date
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Infleqtion: Advances in Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
TartanQEC Workshop | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK – 📅 Save the date
WQCES 2026 - World Quantum Computing & Engineering Summit | Bern, Switzerland – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, June 25, 2026
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