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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
🔗 Pasqal and Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II to Hold Shareholder Vote on August 25th
Source: Pasqal
Organization Mentioned: Pasqal
Geographies: 🇫🇷 France, 🌍 Europe
🔗 EigenQ and Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp Submit Draft S-4 for Proposed Business Combination
Author: Mohib Ur Rehman
Source: The Quantum Insider
Organization Mentioned: EigenQ
Other Category: 🔐 Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
Regional Initiatives and Activities
🔗 From Saturday Morning Quantum to the IQMP: Two Chicago Sisters Explore the Future of Technology
Author: Joel Dickens
Source: IQMP [Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park]
Organizations Mentioned: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🏙️ Illinois
🔗 Diraq Opens First U.S. Quantum Laboratory in Chicago
Author: Francesca Elliott
Source: News - Diraq
Organizations Mentioned: Diraq and Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔲 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Spin Qubits
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🌎 Oceania, 🏙️ Illinois
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Education, Training, Skills Development, and Workforce
🔗 BBC News: ‘Quantum computing talent should be used for good’
Source: Nu Quantum
Organization Mentioned: Nu Quantum
Other Category: 🕸️ Quantum Networking
Geography: 🇬🇧 UK
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
🔗 GMV Builds Broad Quantum Portfolio Across Computing, Space, Communications and Cybersecurity
Author: Matt Swayne
Source: The Quantum Insider
🔗 Future-Proofing the Internet: Akamai Achieves End-to-End PQC
Author: Tim Daffron
Source: Blog [Akamai]
Organization Mentioned: Akamai
🔗 EigenQ CEO: Quantum risk puts everything from pharma data and government secrets on the clock
Author: Brian Buntz
Source: Research & Development World
Organization Mentioned: EigenQ
Other Categories: 🧬 Quantum Computing Applications, 💊 Quantum Computing Applications: Drug Discovery & Pharmaceuticals, ⏲️ Quantum Sensing and Timing
🔗 This researcher is helping fend off quantum computing security risks
Author: Cesareo Contreras
Source: Northeastern Global News [Northeastern University]
Organization Mentioned: Northeastern University
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing, 🥼 Research
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🎓 Massachusetts
Quantum Computing Systems and Components
Source: Rigetti & Co, LLC News Releases [Rigetti Computing]
Organization Mentioned: Rigetti Computing
Other Category: 🛣️ Roadmaps
🔗 We’re excited to see what you build: construct.psiquantum.com
Source: PsiQuantum
Organization Mentioned: PsiQuantum
Other Categories: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars, 🔦 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Photonic Qubits
🔗 A new ingredient for quantum computing: krypton gas
Source: News Archive - Quantum Science & Engineering [Cornell University]
Organization Mentioned: Cornell University
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🗽 New York
🔗 Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time
Author: Ben Brubaker
Source: quantum computing – Quanta Magazine
🔗 IBM Pushes System Design To Reach Ultra-Cold Temperatures For Quantum
Source: The Next Platform: In-depth coverage of high end computing
Organization Mentioned: IBM
Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 Infleqtion Opens the Colorado Quantum Innovation Center | Building America’s Quantum Future
Source: Infleqtion
Organization Mentioned: Infleqtion
Geographies: 🌎 North America, 🏔️ Colorado
Additional News and Announcements
🔗 Quantum Science Group: Good News Jan – June 2026
Author: Belinda Wong
Source: Quantum at Sydney [University of Sydney]
Organization Mentioned: University of Sydney
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
🔗 Gerald Mullally Discusses Quantum Market Momentum with Mergermarket
Source: OQC [Oxford Quantum Circuits]
Organization Mentioned: Oxford Quantum Circuits
Geographies: 🇬🇧 UK, 🌍 Europe
Research
🔗 Korean Researchers Identifies Cause of ‘Beat’ Signal in Topological Insulator Nanowires
Author: Mohib Ur Rehman
Source: The Quantum Insider
Geographies: 🇰🇷 South Korea, 🌏 Asia
🔗 Quantum Computing User Forum highlights advances in quantum research
Source: ORNL News Releases [Oak Ridge National Laboratory]
Organization Mentioned: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🎸 Tennessee
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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.
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
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
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