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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
🔗 Quantum Computing Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
Source: Quantum Computing Inc.
Organization Mentioned: Quantum Computing Inc.
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Regional Initiatives and Activities
🔗 Setting the Record Straight: A Conversation with IQMP CEO Harley Johnson
Author: Joel Dickens
Source: IQMP [Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park]
Organization Mentioned: Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🏙️ Illinois
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People News
🔗 PsiQuantum Appoints Niklas Zennström to Board of Directors
Author: Iris Wu
Source: News - PsiQuantum
Organization Mentioned: PsiQuantum
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔦 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Photonic Qubits
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
Author: Qin Wang
Source: npj Quantum Information
Other Category: 🥼 Research
🔗 Podcast: It’s already blinking red.
Author: Brian N. Siegelwax
Source: The Quantum Dragon (feat. IQT News)
Organization Mentioned: QuSecure
Other Categories: 📰 Newsletters and Blogs, 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 Who Goes There? Post-Quantum Authentication – IPsec Series, Part 6
Author: Julio Gomez
Source: Cisco Blogs [Cisco Systems]
Organization Mentioned: Cisco Systems
Quantum Computing Applications
🔗 Davidson and Strangeworks Announce Quantum Optimization Collaboration
Source: Strangeworks
Organization Mentioned: Strangeworks
Other Category: 👥 Partnerships
Quantum Computing Systems and Components
🔗 Breaking the entanglement-fidelity tradeoff in -symmetric quantum systems
Author: Hui Jing
Source: npj Quantum Information
Other Category: 🥼 Research
🔗 Sizhen Chip Demonstrates Multi-Qubit Photonic Quantum States on Silicon Chip
Author: Mohib Ur Rehman
Source: The Quantum Insider
Organization Mentioned: University of Science and Technology of China
Geographies: 🇨🇳 China, 🌏 Asia
Source: Pasqal
Organization Mentioned: Pasqal
Geographies: 🇫🇷 France, 🌍 Europe
Quantum Sensing and Timing
🔗 Canada Launches $20.3M Quantum Defence Hub, With GNSS-Independent Navigation Among Priorities
Author: Inside GNSS
Source: Inside GNSS – Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Geographies: 🇨🇦 Canada, 🌎 North America
Newsletters and Blogs
🔗 A New Classic McEliece Distinguisher Undercuts Generic Decoding. It Is Not a Break.
Author: Marin Ivezic
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
Organization Mentioned: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Geography: 🇺🇸 United States
Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 Paving the Path to Fault-Tolerant Gate-Model Quantum Computing
Source: D-Wave [D-Wave Quantum]
Organizations Mentioned: D-Wave Quantum and Yale University
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, ⚓ Connecticut
🔗 Quantum Computing in Academia and Industry | Christopher Monroe (Duke University, USA)
Source: Munich Center for Quantum Science & Technology
Organizations Mentioned: Duke University and IonQ
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, ✈️ North Carolina
Author: Amir Rasool
Source: Beyond the Bit: Quantum Pathways
🔗 Quantum in the Big Four with Aaron Kemp
Author: Sebastian Hassinger
Source: The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology
Organization Mentioned: KPMG
Geographies: 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🌍 Europe
Additional News and Announcements
🔗 The Year So Far: Jan – June 2026 at the Quantum Science Group
Author: Belinda Wong
Source: Quantum at Sydney [University of Sydney]
Organization Mentioned: University of Sydney
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
Author: Katia Moskvitch
Source: The Quantum Insider
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Author: Lauren Roady
Source: Infleqtion
Organization Mentioned: Infleqtion
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America
Research
🔗 HQSpectrum: 50% off for Academic Researchers
Author: Verena Kretschmer
Source: News - HQS Quantum Simulations
Organization Mentioned: HQS Quantum Simulations
Geographies: 🇩🇪 Germany, 🌍 Europe
Mathematics and Quantum Science
🔗 The proton is more quantum than we thought
Author: Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Source: New Scientist (subscription may be required)
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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 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
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
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