Daily Quantum Update for Wednesday, May 13, 2026
The quantum sector in brief: 903 organizations, 803+ sources.
Last Updated on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at 08:04 AM EDT
Today’s quote: “You can observe a lot by just watching.” – Yogi Berra
Today’s mentions: California Institute of Technology; Cleveland Clinic; Deloitte; EeroQ; Google; IBM; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Microsoft; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Nord Quantique; Phasecraft; Photonic Inc.; PQShield; Protiviti; Q-CTRL; Quantinuum; Quantum Australia; Quantum eMotion; Quantum Flagship; QunaSys; QuSecure; RIKEN; University of Connecticut; Yale University
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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
🔗 Photonic Inc. Closes Investment Round with over $200M USD ($275M CAD)
Organization Mentioned: Photonic Inc.
Source: Photonic Inc.
Geography: 🇨🇦 Canada
Regional Initiatives
🔗 Quantum Connects UConn, Yale Like Never Before
Author: Matt Engelhardt
Organizations Mentioned: University of Connecticut and Yale University
Source: UConn Today [University of Connecticut]
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, ⚓ Connecticut
Sovereign and Government Initiatives
Author: Meg Gleason
Organization Mentioned: QuSecure
Source: QuSecure
Other Category: 🔐 Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
🔗 Quantum Flagship at Q-Expo 2026: meet the people shaping quantum technology in Bilbao
Organization Mentioned: Quantum Flagship
Source: Quantum Flagship
Geographies: 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🌍 Europe
People News
🔗 Global Quantum Computing Salary Guide
Source: Deep Tech Recruitment Agency · DeepRec
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
🔗 Nord Quantique Appoints Tammy Furlong as Chief Financial Officer
Author: Alina Morkin
Organization Mentioned: Nord Quantique
Source: Nord Quantique™
Other Categories: ⚛️ Quantum Computing Systems and Components, 🔲 Quantum Computing Systems and Components: Superconducting Qubits
Geography: 🇨🇦 Canada
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
🔗 QuSecure Named 2026 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase Finalist
Author: Meg Gleason
Organizations Mentioned: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and QuSecure
Source: QuSecure
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🎓 Massachusetts
🔗 SEETEL, Aegis and Quantum eMotion Expand Quantum-Secured Energy Partnership
Author: Mohib Ur Rehman
Organization Mentioned: Quantum eMotion
Source: The Quantum Insider
Other Category: 👥 Partnerships
Geography: 🇨🇦 Canada
🔗 Quantum Computing Risks for Asset Owners: Cybersecurity, Governance And Competition
Author: Matt Swayne
Source: The Quantum Insider
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
🔗 How a coordination gap is slowing the shift to quantum-safe security, World Economic Forum
Organization Mentioned: PQShield
Source: News | PQShield
Geography: 🇬🇧 UK
🔗 EeroQ’s Thought Leadership in Quantum Law, Regulation, and Security
Organization Mentioned: EeroQ
Source: EeroQ
Geography: 🏙️ Illinois
Quantum Computing Applications: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
🔗 Quantum is the language of nature | Google Quantum AI
Organization Mentioned: Google
Source: Google Quantum AI
Other Categories: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars, 🧬 Quantum Computing Applications
Quantum Computing Applications
🔗 Collaboration with Cleveland Clinic and IBM to model a 12,635-atom protein using quantum computers
Organizations Mentioned: Cleveland Clinic; IBM; RIKEN
Source: news [RIKEN]
Other Categories: 👥 Partnerships, 💊 Quantum Computing Applications: Drug Discovery & Pharmaceuticals
Geographies: 🇯🇵 Japan, 🌏 Asia, 🌰 Ohio
Quantum Algorithms
🔗 Slashing the Time to Quantum Advantage – with Toby Cubitt of Phasecraft
Organizations Mentioned: Google; IBM; Phasecraft; Protiviti; Quantinuum
Source: The Post-Quantum World [Protiviti]
Other Category: 🎙️ Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
Geography: 🇬🇧 UK
Quantum Computing Systems and Components
🔗 Improving the reliability of circuits for quantum computers
Organization Mentioned: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Source: MIT News - Quantum computing [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🎓 Massachusetts
Newsletters and Blogs
🔗 Theorists Prove Passive Quantum Memory Works in Three Dimensions, Settling a 25-Year-Old Question
Author: Marin Ivezic
Organization Mentioned: California Institute of Technology
Source: PostQuantum – Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, PQC
Geographies: 🇺🇸 United States, 🌎 North America, 🐻 California
Additional Podcasts, Videos, Webinars, and Online Seminars
🔗 IBM Think 2026 | Keynote: The future of computing is now
Organizations Mentioned: IBM and Q-CTRL
Source: Q-CTRL
Geography: 🇦🇺 Australia
Organization Mentioned: IBM
Source: Thinking On Paper
🔗 You’re looking inside a quantum computer
Source: Thinking On Paper
🔗 Building the Modern Quantum Architecture—Lecture 7: High Accuracy Quantum Simulations
Organization Mentioned: Microsoft
Source: Microsoft Azure
🔗 Talking quantum with a 9-year-old
Author: Zoe Budrikis
Commentary: Katia Moskvitch shares her experience of launching a quantum computing podcast with her child. Subscription required.
Source: Nature Reviews Physics 2026
Other Category: 🥼 Research
🔗 Reserve Your Seat! 3 Thursdays Webinars: Computation, Data & Quantum
Organization Mentioned: QunaSys
Source: QunaSys
Geographies: 🇯🇵 Japan, 🌏 Asia
Additional News and Announcements
Author: Gemma Johnson
Organization Mentioned: Quantum Australia
Source: News - Quantum Australia
Other Category: 👥 Partnerships
Geographies: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🌎 Oceania
🔗 Quantum Pre-Standardization Workshop: Metrology for Quantum Technologies
Author: Crissy Robinson
Organization Mentioned: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Source: News and Events Feed by Topic [National Institute of Standards and Technology]
Geography: 🇺🇸 United States
🔗 Quantum geometry lens shines new light on solids
Organization Mentioned: RIKEN
Source: RIKEN Research News
Geographies: 🇯🇵 Japan, 🌏 Asia
🔗 Building out infrastructure? Don’t overlook quantum
Author: Katherine Noyes
Organization Mentioned: Deloitte
Source: Deloitte Insights
Other Category: ⚛️ Quantum Computing
Geography: 🇬🇧 UK
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Conference and Events Starting in the Next Four Weeks
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
ISTConversations: Codifying Quantum Talent for Workforce Development | Chicago, Illinois, USA – 📅 Save the date
Q.Stack 2026 – Quantum Summit Italy | Bologna, Italy – 📅 Save the date
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Q-Ready Panel: I Started a Startup with EeroQ | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
Monday, May 18, 2026
Building Fault-Tolerant Quantum Algorithms with PsiQuantum | Evanston, Illinois, USA – 📅 Save the date
Q-EXPO 2026 | Bilbao, Spain – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Device Workshop 2026 | Los Angeles, California, USA – 📅 Save the date
Quantum Energy Initiative Workshop | Barcelona, Spain – 📅 Save the date
Monday, May 25, 2026
Mesoscopic Physics in the Era of Quantum Computing | Pollica, Italy – 📅 Save the date
QUANTUM NOW - DEFSEC | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – 📅 Save the date
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
IQM: Simulating Complex Materials with Quantum Chemistry and SQD | Virtual – 📅 Save the date
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
AFQC 2026 | Düsseldorf, Germany – 📅 Save the date
Danish Quantum Industry Day | Frederiksberg, Denmark – 📅 Save the date
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
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
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