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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
🔗 Infleqtion Reports Updated Financial Results for Q2 2026 and FY26 Revenue Guidance
Author: Lauren Roady
Source: Infleqtion
Organization Mentioned: Infleqtion
🔗 Silicon Spin Qubits and the IBM–HRL Acquisition with Thaddeus D. Ladd
Author: Sebastian Hassinger
Source: The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology
Organizations Mentioned: HRL Laboratories and IBM
Other Categories: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔲 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Spin Qubits
Regional Initiatives and Activities
🔗 Quantum in Action: Australian innovation creating pathways to industry adoption
Author: Gemma Johnson
Source: News - Quantum Australia
Organization Mentioned: Quantum Australia
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
🔗 Community Groups Want Mayor to Shut Down Quantum Shore Chicago Project
Author: Matt Swayne
Source: The Quantum Insider
Geography: 🏙️ Illinois
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Education, Training, Skills Development, and Workforce
🔗 Alice & Bob Partners on Europe’s First Doctoral Network Dedicated to Quantum Error Correction
Source: Alice & Bob
Organization Mentioned: Alice & Bob
Other Category: 👥 Partnerships
Geography: 🇫🇷 France
Analysts
🔗 Thales’ Luna 8 HSM: A Platform Consolidation Play Wearing a Quantum-Safe Badge
Author: Cathy Huang
Source: rsshardware [IDC]
Organizations Mentioned: IDC and Thales Group
Other Category: 🔐 Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
Geographies: 🇫🇷 France, 🌍 Europe
Authors: Emanuel Figueroa and Joel Stradling
Source: rsshardware [IDC]
Organization Mentioned: IDC
Other Category: 🔐 Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
🔗 Quantinuum and Quanta: Borrowing from Classical Compute to Build the Future Quantum
Author: Heather West
Source: rsshardware [IDC]
Organizations Mentioned: IDC; Quanta Computer; and Quantinuum
Geographies: 🇹🇼 Taiwan, 🌏 Asia
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
🔗 Project news: The next phase of quantum-safe cryptography: from standards to practice
Source: VTT / tiede-ja tutkimusuutiset
Organization Mentioned: VTT
Geographies: 🇫🇮 Finland, 🌍 Europe, 🌍 Nordics
🔗 SIT and IBM to build quantum security hub in Singapore
Source: ComputerWeekly.com
Organizations Mentioned: IBM; Serendipity Capital; and University of Melbourne
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇸🇬 Singapore, 🌏 Asia, 🌎 Oceania
🔗 Proving Your Crypto Inventory Is Complete Without Handing Over the Map
Author: Marin Ivezic
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
Other Category: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs
Source: GSMA
Organization Mentioned: QCentroid
Other Category: 🧬 Quantum Computing Applications
Geographies: 🇪🇸 Spain, 🌍 Europe
Quantum Computing Applications
🔗 China Tests Quantum Technology in Power Grid
Author: Matt Swayne
Source: The Quantum Insider
Other Category: ⚡ Quantum Computing Applications: Energy & Utilities
Geographies: 🇨🇳 China, 🌏 Asia
🔗 D-Wave Technology Drives NTT DOCOMO’s Second Production Quantum Application in Network Operations
Source: D-Wave Quantum
Organization Mentioned: D-Wave Quantum
Quantum Algorithms
🔗 Episode 147: Steve Girvin on Algorithms, Modalities, and the Road Ahead
Source: Entangled Things
Other Categories: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars, ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components
Quantum Computing Systems and Components
🔗 From Beaches to Bits to Qubits – Silicon’s Journey in Quantum Computing
Author: Ajay P. Manuel
Source: The Quantum Insider
Quantum Communications
🔗 TUM develops single-photon sources for quantum communication
Author: Linda Schinnenburg
Source: TUM – Latest news [Technische Universität München]
Organization Mentioned: Technische Universität München
Other Category: 🔦 Photonics
Geographies: 🇩🇪 Germany, 🌍 Europe
Newsletters and Blogs
🔗 The GSMA’s Telco Quantum Playbook Misreports the McKinsey Report It Cites
Author: Marin Ivezic
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
Organizations Mentioned: Google; IBM; and McKinsey & Company
🔗 China Set a 420 km Quantum-Memory Entanglement Record. The Two Ends Were in One Lab.
Author: Marin Ivezic
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
Geographies: 🇨🇳 China, 🌏 Asia
Research
🔗 Light Reveals the Hidden Quantum Motion Inside an Exotic Crystal
Source: SciTechDaily
Organization Mentioned: Quantum Motion
Geographies: 🇬🇧 UK, 🌍 Europe
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Conference and Events Starting in the Next Four Weeks
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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
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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