Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending January 17, 2026
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If you missed this week in quantum, congrats on your newfound peace. The Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up has you covered. Everyone else is now speed-reading IPO filings, “quantum-safe” network pilots, and a surprising amount of physics that sounds like it was written by a poet with a cryostat.
Quantum Money Moves and Corporate Plot Twists
The finance tape was lively: Honeywell’s update on Quantinuum’s confidential IPO filing set the tone, while SEEQC and Allegro Merger Corp.’s merger agreement kept the SPAC crowd caffeinated. Funding-wise, Equal1’s €60M raise joined Quantum Computing Report on Haiqu’s $11M seed for a hardware-aware quantum operating system and Quantum Delta NL’s Q*Bird landing EIC Accelerator support.
Photons, Memories, and the “Yes, This Is Real Hardware” Pile
For the “stuff you can actually integrate”, Welinq’s sale of its QDrive quantum memory in Europe is the kind of signal builders watch closely. Component scaling got airtime too via Quantum Computing Report on Xanadu and Thorlabs partnering to scale optical components for photonic quantum computing and Zurich Instruments’ new multipurpose instrument. Meanwhile, QuTech’s push for “more photons, faster links” with NV centres fed the quantum networking crowd.
Post-Quantum Anxiety Goes Mainstream
Security stayed loud. The week’s “don’t wait” energy came through in Quantum Computing Report’s post-quantum migration push, plus the broader narrative in PR Newswire’s PQC urgency piece. Infrastructure pilots also keep stacking: Colt’s transatlantic quantum-safe encryption trial is the kind of “show me on real fiber” proof CISOs love. And if you want peak headline whiplash, Morningstar/PR Newswire on BTQ launching a Bitcoin quantum testnet and quantum-safe fork landed the same week as Cointelegraph on Jefferies’ Greed & Fear strategist dropping Bitcoin over quantum worries.
Policy, Strategy, and “Everyone Wants a National Plan”
The policy lane had both near-term and long-view material: the U.S. government’s posture showed up via Treasury’s release, while global framing came through in the OECD’s overview of national quantum strategies and its companion OECD PDF report. Europe’s appetite stayed visible in the European Commission’s readout and industry-facilitated discussion via Alice & Bob’s Quantum Act discussion. In the U.S., the drumbeat continued with Nextgov’s House Science Committee hearing coverage.
Software, Platforms, and “Let’s Make This Usable” Energy
Enterprise “how do I even adopt this” showed up in Network World’s look at what enterprises think about quantum computing. On the platform side, Fujitsu’s Qubitra roadmap with SC Ventures and the matching perspective in Standard Chartered’s release read like a “build the marketplace and the talent funnel” play. Also in the “tools that matter” vein: GlobeNewswire on Zapata and University of Maryland’s collaboration, plus exec chess at Xanadu’s leadership update.
Science That Makes You Want to Click “Related Papers” for 3 Hours
The lab side went hard: Princeton’s first high-resolution images of topological quantum Hall edge states, Phys.org on a three-qubit quantum register in a silicon photonic chip, and UChicago on turning crystal flaws into “quantum highways” all begged for follow-up reading. Add in PSI’s Swiss X-ray laser electron “dance” story, a pair of research hits via EurekAlert release 1112779 (Japan) and EurekAlert release 1112781 (China), plus energy/biology crossover in Rice’s quantum simulator photosynthesis work and materials news from TU Wien’s materials update and RIKEN’s research note. Also, if you’re watching quantum-adjacent device physics, UNIST’s ultra-fast quantum tunneling device for 6G/terahertz belongs in your tab pile.
Defense, Space, and “Please Don’t Make This Weird”
The geopolitics edge showed up in Interesting Engineering’s “China 10 quantum weapons” piece. Space-side ambition popped via PsiQuantum’s Airbus item and a very on-brand PDF in Black Moon Energy and JPL’s robotic lunar mission document.
Also Worth Your Clicks Before Your Tabs Stage a Coup
Commercial maneuvering: Quantum Computing Inc.’s Luminar LiDAR stalking-horse bid, plus the “quantum-ready” ops angle from Dell’s BIOS security post. Academia and facilities: Montana State’s $31.5M test bed expansion and the “come study here” energy at Colorado School of Mines’ quantum site. Corporate/industry: ORCA Computing and Toyota’s hybrid quantum-AI energy reduction effort. And if you like metrics that make security folks smile, EIN Presswire on an XJTLU post-quantum security analysis record. Deal watch: SEALSQ’s WiseRobot Davos proof-of-concept and SEALSQ’s Quobly MOU. Finally, for the “wire problem” crowd, PR Newswire on EeroQ “wire problem” work, and for the biomedical/accelerator intersection, Fermilab’s SQMS/NYU Langone NIH challenge update.
Bottom Line
This week pushed the quantum boulder forward and upward because quantum computing is simultaneously getting more investable, more securable, and more real-world-pluggable—and the pace is daring you to keep up.
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