Pasqal’s planned Nasdaq listing via a SPAC has advanced procedurally. The companies aim to complete the business combination following an August 25 shareholder meeting.
JIJ has published versions 2.6 and 2.7 of its mathematical optimization modeling tool JijModeling 2, improving processing speed, memory efficiency, and debugging support.
D‑Wave’s Q2 2026 revenue was nearly flat year‑over‑year, while H1 bookings and remaining performance obligations rose sharply. The company also disclosed new development targets for its annealing and gate approaches.
OptQC has appointed Tomohiro Maeda as executive officer and CFO. He will reinforce the financial and management foundation supporting validation, commercialization, and global rollout of the MoQuren system.
Adds OqtopusClient to Amplify Quantum 1.3, enabling use of “System F” on ABCI‑Q from existing Amplify SDK code.
Xanadu posted $1.5 million revenue and a $42.1 million net loss in Q2 2026. The company also reported reduced facet coupling loss for photonic components and a method that roughly halves QROM Toffoli operations.
IonQ reported Q2 2026 revenue of $80.1 million. It raised full‑year revenue guidance to $280–$290 million, while GAAP net loss was $1.8677 billion.
D-Wave demonstrated a two-qubit entangling gate with about 99.9% fidelity and roughly 500 ns gate time. The results were published in Nature.
JIJ has released a new version of its mathematical optimization solver to existing JijZept users and early partners. The redesign of the search engine strengthens handling of problems with complex constraints.
IonQ and Sandia National Laboratories have signed an MOU to explore joint co-design of quantum computing and quantum networking.
They will combine autonomous undersea robots with Strangeworks’ Aura optimization platform to explore efficient deployment of sensing networks for protecting marine infrastructure.
JIJ has raised approximately ¥840 million through a third‑party allocation of shares. The funds will be used to expand its mathematical optimization business, advance “JijZept AI”, develop middleware for gate‑model quantum computing, and support overseas expansion.
IonQ and EPB plan to establish a center in Tennessee to study quantum memory and long-distance quantum communications using an operational optical fiber network.
JIJ has released Qamomile v0.14.0. The update enables resource estimation and conversion/execution to multiple SDKs from the same quantum program.
D-Wave and Nasdaq Verafin will launch a proof of concept applying quantum–classical hybrid techniques to financial crime detection. They will analyze hundreds of data signals to explore their use in predictive models for anomalous account behavior.
OptQC and NTT have signed a capital and business alliance to commercialize photonic quantum computers, expanding collaboration from R&D through commercialization and societal deployment.
Mitsui Kinzoku will subscribe to Quemix’s third-party allotment of new shares and strengthen joint research on materials calculations using quantum computers.
Qubit counts and funding alone don’t tell the whole story. Quantum Index’s editorial team gave independent 3–5 year outlooks for 29 leading domestic and international quantum-related companies, evaluating technical feasibility, distance to commercialization, revenue, customer base, and more.
IonQ has completed its acquisition of U.S. semiconductor foundry SkyWater Technology, bringing design, manufacturing, and advanced packaging in-house to strengthen its quantum technology supply chain.
Lockheed Martin will adopt Xanadu’s PennyLane in its internal talent program, expanding hands-on quantum programming training.
planqc, Saarland University, BMW and Infineon have launched an industrial optimization research project that combines quantum-driven problem reduction with classical algorithms.
AIST’s G-QuAT and Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University have signed an MOU to strengthen cooperation on social implementation of quantum technology. OptQC’s CTO took part in the commemorative panel.
Three studies reported methods for assessing the reliability of quantum computations in regimes where classical computation cannot reproduce the answers, using space–time codes, error mitigation, and multiple quantum machines.
Strangeworks announced an enterprise optimization system that supports everything from modeling business problems to selecting compute resources and deploying and improving decision systems.
Q-CTRL outlines the conditions needed to commercialize quantum computers, using integration examples at RIKEN and Elevate Quantum to highlight the importance of HPC integration, operational automation, and workforce development.
A quantum–classical hybrid technique to reconstruct continuous functions encoded in quantum states from principal Fourier coefficients has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
OptQC’s photonic quantum computer “MoQuren” has started operating at AIST’s G-QuAT. The company plans integration with ABCI-Q and will offer a simulation-capable SDK free of charge.
Alice & Bob has announced an integrated system for quantum error correction called Helium. It is designed to encode logical qubits using 18 cat qubits and to integrate with HPC environments.
Fixstars Amplify has added IonQ’s quantum simulator to its standard machines and begun offering it for free. Paid access to IonQ hardware will be rolled out as a paid plan in the future.
Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a topological quantum processor using new materials that extend qubit lifetimes by over 1,000× versus its predecessor, and aims for a scalable quantum computer by 2029.