The Qubit Report Staff

SEALSQ Partners with Palm Technologies for Post-Quantum Security in India

SEALSQ and Palm Technologies have formed a strategic partnership to integrate the QS7001 hardware-security MCU into PalmPay biometric products for India’s digital payments and public transport markets. The initial focus is the MetPalm V1 product architecture for metro and toll applications, with plans to extend across merchant terminals and connected platforms. Technical integration details, vertical expansion plans, and executive commentary appear in the full report.

August 18, 2026

OTI Lumionics and SAIT Achieve 200-Qubit Quantum Emulation on Classical Hardware

OTI Lumionics and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology report 200-plus qubit classical emulation of OLED emitter materials on a single commercial AMD CPU. An optimized iQCC implementation also delivered a reported 90× performance increase on Blackwell systems for 112-qubit calculations. Full benchmarks, accuracy metrics against experiment, and materials implications appear in the report.

August 18, 2026

Researchers Map Six-Stage STRIDE Threats Across Quantum-as-a-Service Pipeline

Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä have released a six-stage STRIDE threat model that maps attack surfaces across the full Quantum-as-a-Service pipeline used by IBM Quantum, Amazon Braket, and IonQ. The matrix organizes published quantum attacks, classical inheritances, and under-studied gaps, while identifying three cross-stage chains that elevate overall risk. Full technical details and the threat matrix appear in the arXiv preprint accepted as a QCE26 poster.

August 17, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending August 15, 2026

Pasqal moved atom trapping onto a photonic chip, Q-CTRL ran a 100-qubit Fourier Transform on IBM hardware, and Quantinuum parked Helios inside Oracle’s cloud. Utah formalized a statewide quantum initiative while Infleqtion doubled revenue and raised guidance. Post-quantum tools reached GSA schedules and live blockchains. This was the week hardware, software, and policy all accelerated together.

August 14, 2026

BTQ Technologies Advances Commercialization Across QCIM, QPerfect, QSSN and Bitcoin Quantum in Q2 2026 Update

BTQ Technologies completed its acquisition of QPerfect and reported commercial progress across its trusted quantum platform in its Q2 2026 corporate update. QSSN surpassed 100,000 transactions processed on mainnet and advanced toward potential production deployment through a Korean bank-led stablecoin proof-of-concept, while Bitcoin Quantum brought its mining and hosting infrastructure to mainnet readiness. Technical and commercial details on MIMIQ expansion, Digital Twin development, and QCIM silicon milestones are covered in the full report.

August 14, 2026

DARPA Awards Qunnect Contract to Advance Carina Polarization Compensation for Quantum Network Reliability

DARPA has awarded Qunnect a contract to advance the next-generation polarization compensation nodule in its Carina quantum entanglement distribution system. Carina already anchors quantum-network deployments in New York, Bozeman, Berlin, and Albuquerque. The funding targets real-time correction of fiber-induced polarization drift that can degrade quantum signals on commercial infrastructure.

August 13, 2026

Saab UK, Aquark Technologies and Royal Navy Complete World-First Quantum Timing Radar Trial

Saab UK, Aquark Technologies and the Royal Navy DCTO completed a trial showing Giraffe 1X radars can maintain a coherent air picture using independent AQlock quantum timing without GNSS. The demonstration is believed to be a world-first for a distributed high-performance military radar network operating under representative denial and spoofing conditions. Technical outcomes and operational implications are detailed in the full report.

August 13, 2026

Alice & Bob Joins €4.6 Million QuBriC Network for Quantum Error Correction Doctoral Training

Alice & Bob has joined QuBriC, Europe’s first doctoral network entirely dedicated to quantum error correction. The €4.6 million Horizon Europe programme will train 15 doctoral researchers across 16 universities and seven quantum companies. The collaboration brings cat-qubit expertise into a full-stack effort to bridge classical coding theory and quantum information science.

August 13, 2026

HAWK Lattice Signature Scheme Withdrawn from NIST Round 3 After AI-Assisted Key-Recovery Attack

An improved key-recovery attack discovered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview led the HAWK team to withdraw the lattice-based signature scheme from NIST’s third-round additional signatures process within roughly 17 hours of public disclosure. The attack applies known lattice techniques more thoroughly than prior human review and does not affect finalized standards ML-KEM or ML-DSA. The rapid timeline underscores why measured crypto-agility forms a practical component of post-quantum migration planning.

August 13, 2026

Quantinuum and Oracle Partner to Bring Helios Quantum Computer to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Hybrid Quantum-AI Workloads

Quantinuum and Oracle announced a multi-year partnership on August 11, 2026, to deploy the Helios quantum computer inside a U.S. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data center. OCI customers will access the 98-physical-qubit trapped-ion system through a planned quantum service alongside HPC and GPU resources. The collaboration targets hybrid quantum-AI applications in drug discovery, materials science, and financial modeling.

August 11, 2026

Author: The Qubit Report Staff