Above: Money pumped in and threats to banking, all in this week’s recap. Image courtesy AI.
If you don’t read through this Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up, you will miss a week where “quantum” stopped being a noun and started behaving like a deadline—especially for security teams, national programs, and anyone trying to ship hardware not requiring a monastery and a helium budget.
Google’s own reality-check in Google’s security write-up lands like a calendar invite you can’t decline: inventory your crypto, plan migration, and assume “later” is not a strategy. The Citi Institute’s “Quantum Threat” report adds the uncomfortable math layer—enough to keep CISOs awake without turning it into sci-fi. Meanwhile, the network plumbing is already moving: Orange Business and Cisco’s crypto-agile PQC push is the kind of partnership signaling “this is going into real environments.” On the endpoint side, SEALSQ’s ‘Physical AI’ security vision and the QS7001 root-of-trust integration story scream the same message: PQC isn’t just software; it’s going to be baked into devices. Also: yes, healthcare is paying attention—see the Greek hospital “quantum security” deployment claim—and India’s ecosystem keeps getting louder with Quantum Encrypt’s launch coverage.
The U.S. isn’t subtle: the National Science Foundation’s $100M national quantum nanotechnology effort is a flag planted in the “materials and manufacturing matter” territory. NIST’s $3M+ allocation to small businesses reinforces that enabling tech (and the suppliers behind it) are part of the plan. Regionally, the U.S. map keeps filling in: New Mexico’s pitch to become QuEra-friendly territory and Maryland leaders’ “own the future” messaging both read as talent-and-infrastructure recruitment ads (because they are).
Photonic players were busy turning “lab cool” into “data-center compatible.” QuiX Quantum and Artilux’s MoU leans hard into integration, manufacturability, and reducing detector cooling pain. On the “make it deployable” front, OQC and QinetiQ’s application demo is another reminder of near-term value showing up as very specific workloads vice generic hype. Europe’s sovereignty drumbeat continues with IQM’s Euro-Q-Exa launch in Germany and a broader national framing via Karlsruhe’s quantum leadership narrative. And yes, the “adult supervision” hires keep coming—PsiQuantum naming Victor Peng and Qblox expanding its executive bench both signal scaling mode.
Two space-and-network stories made the case that the “quantum internet” is really a long chain of practical photonics problems. NASA’s grant to Montana State focuses on programmable photonics for space networks, while WISeSat’s next LEO launch plan leans into onboard trust roots and post-quantum hardware. On the lab-to-network front, DI-QKD over 100 km (per EurekAlert) is the kind of result that makes quantum repeaters feel less like a whiteboard fantasy. Add U.S. regional network buildout with RIT + University of Rochester’s $2M effort, and suddenly the map looks…intentional.
If you like your quantum news with actual physics in it: RIKEN’s “keep it local” result puts bounds on multipartite correlations at finite temperatures—useful for anyone selling “exotic” material behavior. WVU and Chicago’s work on tuning quantum states via electron correlations in iron telluride selenide is another “materials are a control knob” datapoint. Add metrology obsession via EPFL’s time-at-the-quantum-level piece, the Majorana storyline with CSIC’s readout milestone framing, photonic building blocks from Illinois’ graph-state protocol, and real-time verification with Vienna’s certification protocol recap. Even AWS joined the “use what you can now” chorus with reservoir computing on an analog Rydberg platform.
India had a particularly loud week: IBM notes construction of the Quantum Valley Tech Park and workforce acceleration in its India education update, while mainstream coverage points to an 8-qubit commercial system coming to a Bengaluru campus. If you want a more structured “learn it” ramp, Infleqtion’s Zero to Quantum is unabashedly trying to turn curiosity into competence.
Architecture drama arrived on schedule. Iceberg Quantum’s “Pinnacle and Series Seed” post pairs a $6M seed round with a hard claim: you can rethink resource assumptions for factoring RSA-2048. The underlying technical claim shows up in the Pinnacle Architecture arXiv paper, which argues for dramatically lower physical-qubit counts under specific error-rate and cycle-time assumptions. And if you want the industrial “how far are we, really?” version, SoftBank’s new white paper—summarized on its Topics page—tries to quantify fault-tolerant requirements for industrial use cases such as quantum chemistry and Computer Assisted Engineering (CAE).
This week made it harder to pretend quantum is “future-only”—security migration, network infrastructure, and fault-tolerance math all moved from abstract to scheduled.
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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
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