Above: Canada makes move to plus up the $. Image courtesy Grok.
Quantum computing fans, buckle up—this week’s quantum computing weekly round-up is stacked with government cash drops, error correction wins, and sensing tech that’s already saving lives and volcanoes. Miss these stories and you’ll be kicking yourself when everyone’s talking about them.
Canada is going all-in to keep its quantum stars at home, funding four developers with up to $23 million each through the Quantum Champions Program. Nord Quantique grabbed $23 million in non-dilutive funding, while Anyon Systems scored the same hefty sum—joined by Xanadu and Photonic in this massive federal push to build homegrown quantum powerhouses.
Riverlane just unveiled the world’s first hardware decoder for real-time scalable error correction, running on FPGA with decoding in under a microsecond and adaptive handling of noisy qubits. This Local Clustering Decoder is already deployed on systems from big players, paving the way for fault-tolerant quantum machines that don’t crash every five seconds.
Quantum sensors are out here doing the heavy lifting: Heriot-Watt researchers landed a £2 million fellowship to use quantum breakthroughs for spying on cancer-immune interactions, tracking free radicals to unlock better therapies. Meanwhile, Exail delivered three absolute quantum gravimeters to Tenerife for spotting magma shifts in volcano monitoring with drift-free precision. And physicists achieved high-temperature superconducting diodes in twisted cuprates, enabling efficient supercurrent without magnetic fields—huge for low-noise quantum tech.
IonQ and QuantumBasel expanded their long-term deal to over $60 million through 2029, with QuantumBasel owning an IonQ Forte and getting a Tempo system to become Europe’s go-to quantum innovation hub. Over in the UK, NQCC and Google Quantum AI launched a new initiative giving researchers access to the cutting-edge Willow processor for breakthrough experiments.
Quantum tech is fixing the military’s GPS jamming nightmare, with atom interferometers, diamond magnetometers, and software boosts delivering jam-proof positioning for planes, subs, and drones—no satellites required.
QuantumDiamonds announced a €152 million plan for the world’s first advanced quantum-based chip inspection facility in Munich, backed by European Chips Act funds. These massive builds are turning quantum from lab toys into industrial beasts.
US quantum security policy is lagging, with calls to update outdated views on QKD as entanglement networks solve old flaws and counter harvest now threats.
This week hammered home that quantum tech is surging into practical, funded reality—governments betting billions, hardware fixing core flaws, and applications on the way to saving lives. All of this is underlies where we are: on the brink of scalable breakthroughs.
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See the full week of articles in the Weekly Archives Pages and the Weekly Round-Ups found at The Qubit Report.
