Daily Quantum Update for Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Following the qubits, the patents, and the people who chase both.
Last Updated on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, at 08:04 AM EDT
Today’s quote: “When in doubt tell the truth.” – Mark Twain
Today’s mentions: Advanced Micro Devices; Amazon Web Services; Atom Computing; Barclays PLC; D-Wave Quantum; DARPA; Diraq; EigenQ; Gartner; Hewlett Packard Enterprise; IBM; IDC; Infleqtion; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Munich Quantum Valley; National Physical Laboratory; ORCA Computing; Phasecraft; PsiQuantum; Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech; Quandela; Quantinuum; QuEra Computing; Rigetti Computing; Sandia National Laboratories; Toyota Motor Corporation; Unitary Foundation; Xanadu Quantum Technologies; Zapata Quantum
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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
🔗 Why Governments Want Quantum Computers
Commentary: Bob Sutor is featured.
Source: Thinking On Paper
Other Category: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
Investment, Funding, and Financial News
🔗 Mehmet Sanliol, managing director at Evercore
Author: Yuval Boger
Source: The Superposition Guy’s Podcast
Other Category: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 IBM sends signals with its $10 billion quantum pledge
Organizations Mentioned: Atom Computing; Barclays PLC; D-Wave Quantum; Diraq; Gartner; IBM; IDC; Infleqtion; PsiQuantum; Quantinuum; Rigetti Computing
Source: IBM sends signals with its $10 billion quantum pledge | Network World
Other Categories: 🔍 Analysts, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔦 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Photonic Qubits, 🔲 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Silicon Spin Qubits
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇬🇧 UK, 🌎 Oceania
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Sovereign and Government Initiatives
🔗 DARPA Selects Quandela for Stage A of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Organizations Mentioned: DARPA and Quandela
Source: Quandela
Other Categories: 🛦 Defense and Military, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔦 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Photonic Qubits
Geographies: 🇫🇷 France, 🇺🇸 United States, 🌍 Europe
🔗 UK, Japan Expand Quantum Partnership With Focus on Commercial Deployment
Author: Matt Swayne
Source: The Quantum Insider
Other Category: 👥 Partnerships
Geographies: 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇬🇧 UK, 🌏 Asia, 🌍 Europe
Education, Training, Skills Development, and Workforce
🔗 Fueling the quantum future, one teacher at a time
Organization Mentioned: Sandia National Laboratories
Source: News Releases [Sandia National Laboratories]
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌶️ New Mexico
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
Author: Matt Swayne
Organizations Mentioned: Advanced Micro Devices and EigenQ
Source: The Quantum Insider
Other Categories: 👥 Partnerships, 🔲 Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing
🔗 HPE Labs at HPE Discover: Showcasing Innovation Across AI, Security, Energy and Quantum
Organization Mentioned: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Source: Advancing Life & Work articles [Hewlett Packard Enterprise]
Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance
🔗 QuEra Announces Libra: 256 Logical Qubits on Amazon Braket by 2028
Author: Marin Ivezic
Organizations Mentioned: Amazon Web Services and QuEra Computing
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
Other Categories: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components
Quantum Computing Computer Science, Coding, and Software Development
🔗 QiliSDK 0.2.0: A Unified Framework for Analog, Digital, and Hybrid Quantum Computing
Organization Mentioned: Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech
Source: Qilimanjaro [Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech]
Geographies: 🇪🇸 Spain, 🌍 Europe
🔗 Xanadu Joins UF to Strengthen the Open Quantum Software Ecosystem
Organizations Mentioned: Unitary Foundation and Xanadu Quantum Technologies
Source: Unitary Foundation blog
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔦 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Photonic Qubits
Geographies: 🇨🇦 Canada, 🌎 North America, 🏢 Ontario
Quantum Algorithms
🔗 “This... puts quantum computing to work on a problem that matters today.”
Author: Brian N. Siegelwax
Organization Mentioned: Phasecraft
Source: The Quantum Dragon (feat. IQT News)
Other Category: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs
Geography: 🇬🇧 UK
Author: Brian N. Siegelwax
Organization Mentioned: Phasecraft
Source: The Quantum Dragon (feat. IQT News)
Other Category: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs
Geography: 🇬🇧 UK
Quantum Computing Systems and Components
🔗 ORCA Computing and Toyota Tsusho Deploy First Quantum System to Enterprise Customer in Japan
Author: Juliet McGinnis
Organizations Mentioned: ORCA Computing and Toyota Motor Corporation
Source: NEWS | ORCA Computing
Other Category: 🔦 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Photonic Qubits
Geographies: 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇬🇧 UK, 🌏 Asia, 🌍 Europe
🔗 Are useful and error-free quantum computers only two years away?
Author: Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Organization Mentioned: QuEra Computing
Source: New Scientist - Home
Other Category: 🔬 Mathematics and Quantum Science
Newsletters and Blogs
🔗 Here we are. Born to be qubits.
Author: Brian N. Siegelwax
Source: The Quantum Dragon (feat. IQT News)
Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 Quantum Computing for Computational Advantage
Organization Mentioned: D-Wave Quantum
Source: D-Wave [D-Wave Quantum]
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Additional News and Announcements
🔗 Zapata Quantum Announces Uplisting to OTCQB Market
Organization Mentioned: Zapata Quantum
Source: Zapata Quantum
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🎓 Massachusetts
🔗 UK launches first national network for quantum standards
Author: Emily Warrender
Source: Open Access Government
Geographies: 🇬🇧 UK, 🌍 Europe
🔗 The Quantum Standard Network (QSN) launches.
Organization Mentioned: National Physical Laboratory
Source: National Physical Laboratory
Geography: 🇬🇧 UK
🔗 Munich Quantum Valley at the Hofgartenfest
Organization Mentioned: Munich Quantum Valley
Source: Munich Quantum Valley
Geographies: 🇩🇪 Germany, 🌍 Europe
🔗 How to create distinguishable states for quantum systems
Organization Mentioned: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Source: MIT News - Quantum computing [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🎓 Massachusetts
Research
🔗 Researchers Clear Critical Hurdle For Electron-on-Helium Quantum Computing
Author: Matt Swayne
Source: The Quantum Insider
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
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Conference and Events Starting in the Next Four Weeks
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026
France Quantum 2026 Summit | Paris, France – 📅 Save the date
Optica 2026 Quantum Industry Summit - Fifth Edition | Glasgow, Scotland, UK – 📅 Save the date
The Economist Commercialising Quantum | London, England, United Kingdom – 📅 Save the date
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Q-Ready Workshop: Building Quantum Skills with PennyLane | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Security Awareness for Executives – Free Webcast | Webinar – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Quantum Security Awareness (Manufacturing Edition): Trust Now, Forge Later on the Shop Floor – Signed Updates, Machine Identity, and Supplier Reality | Webinar – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Sensing for Executives: The Advantages of Quantum LiDAR & PNT Devices | Webinar – 📅 Save the date
Qubits Europe 2026: Quantum Realized | London, England, UK – 📅 Save the date
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Quantum Information 2026 | Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria – 📅 Save the date
Monday, June 22, 2026
IQT Nordics | Oslo, Norway – 📅 Save the date
ISC High Performance 2026 | Hamburg, Germany – 📅 Save the date
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
QuEra Product Roadmap Update | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Machines/Oratomic: Shor’s Algorithm is Possible with as Few as 10,000 Reconfigurable Atomic Qubits | 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
Monday, June 29, 2026
La Ricotta Summer School: The Quantum in the Haystack | Castro Caldelas, Spain – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Computing Thematic Track 2026 (QCW2026) | Hamburg, Germany – 📅 Save the date
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
IEEE qCCL 2026 – IEEE International Conference on Quantum Control, Computing and Learning | Aalborg, Denmark – 📅 Save the date
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
CQI 2026 - Conference on Quantum Information | Seoul, South Korea – 📅 Save the date
IEEE qCCL 2026 - International Conference on Quantum Control, Computing and Learning | Aalborg, Denmark – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, July 2, 2026
Monday, July 6, 2026
Symposium FTQC4NSc – Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing for Natural Sciences | Heilbronn, Germany – 📅 Save the date
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Quantum Sensing and Metrology (QSM) | Maastricht, Netherlands – 📅 Save the date
Monday, July 13, 2026
IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software 2026 | Sydney, Australia – 📅 Save the date
IEEE QSW 2026 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software | Sydney, Australia – 📅 Save the date
International Conference on Quantum Information, Computing, Communications and Simulation – Quantics 2026 | Lisbon, Portugal – 📅 Save the date
Qiskit Global Summer School 2026 | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
SpinQubit7 - 7th International Conference on Spin-Based Quantum Information Processing | Delft, the Netherlands – 📅 Save the date
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