Xanadu has announced plans to establish an advanced photonics facility, Inception, in Toronto to house research and development through manufacturing and systems integration.
Improves solving performance for combinatorial optimization problems with complex constraints, targeting applications such as workforce scheduling and production planning.
NASA has awarded Infleqtion an additional $20 million to develop a quantum sensor that measures gravity gradients from low Earth orbit.
A control program generated by Claude restored most laser faults in under six seconds; 695 successes in 700 trials.
Q-CTRL measured maritime gravity distribution with a quantum gravimeter and matched it to maps to position a vessel. The company says it maintained 1 nautical mile accuracy without special stabilization equipment or frequent recalibration.
Shunkai, for which Infleqtion supplied the quantum processing unit, is now operational. The initial configuration is about 50 qubits, with plans to expand to roughly 500 qubits.
A Qiskit tool that delays mapping to qubits to retain fermionic structure during compilation — aiding optimization of qubit circuits — has been released.
Added optical communications terminals for the SDA low‑Earth‑orbit communications network. Installed on a York Space Systems satellite, bringing the on‑orbit count to 84.
IBM announced a new architecture that connects box‑shaped cryogenic cells. It operated two prototype cells simultaneously and envisions each future cell supporting at least 2,000 qubits.
Infleqtion plans a 2027 field test in Colorado of quantum gravity gradiometry to detect subsurface density contrasts and geological structures.
Infleqtion has opened a new site in Louisville, Colorado. The center will support development and deployment of neutral‑atom quantum computing and quantum sensing.
Optimized TA-Lists spanning multiple areas, reducing location registration signals by 65.3% and paging signals by 7.0% during daily peak periods.
Evaluating Ironstone Opal—a quantum sensor system that measures regional magnetic and gravity fields for aircraft. Aims to provide alternative positioning during GPS disruption.
Pasqal trapped four rubidium atoms using laser light delivered from a photonic integrated circuit. The result is a technical demonstration toward smaller, more scalable optics for neutral‑atom systems.
IonQ has won a $28 million contract extension from DARPA. The company will establish manufacturing for the Evergreen‑05 optical atomic clock and deliver 25 units to the U.S. government as firm orders.
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.
Adds OqtopusClient to Amplify Quantum 1.3, enabling use of “System F” on ABCI‑Q from existing Amplify SDK code.
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.
JIJ has released Qamomile v0.14.0. The update enables resource estimation and conversion/execution to multiple SDKs from the same quantum program.
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.
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.
Infleqtion plans to deploy Sqale—a neutral‑atom system aiming to demonstrate over 50 logical qubits—at IQMP and pursue quantum optimization applications for the power grid.