Cat-qubit resource estimates put RSA-2048 within reach of roughly 23,000 physical qubits in just over three days, while AWS Key Management Service begins supporting ML-KEM and regional ecosystems push quantum tools into medicine, grid security, and defense sensing. Production cryptography and talent pipelines are now moving on the same timeline as the algorithms. Dip your whiskers in this edition of The Qubit Report.
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.
Bull and Alice & Bob have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate cat-qubit quantum computers into high-performance computing environments. The agreement leverages Alice & Bob’s fault-tolerant cat qubit technology to enable hybrid quantum-classical workloads with reduced error correction overhead. Joint efforts will focus on low-latency interfaces, SLURM compatibility, and software orchestration to make these quantum resources accessible within Bull’s European HPC infrastructures. This collaboration accelerates commercial quantum-HPC solutions, supporting technological sovereignty and practical applications in materials simulation and optimization.
Alice & Bob has made its Helium platform available to third-party organizations, marking the first multi cat-qubit system offered externally for quantum error correction research and experimentation. The compact 18-qubit system integrates noise-biased cat qubits with degree-2 connectivity and delivers bit-flip times exceeding one hour along with 94.2% Z-gate fidelity in 26.5 nanoseconds. Backed by €130 million in total funding and a new $50 million Paris laboratory, the company is advancing a clear roadmap toward a 100-logical-qubit Graphene quantum computer by 2030. The platform’s design aims to reduce physical qubit overhead for fault-tolerant quantum computing by up to 200 times compared with conventional superconducting approaches. Researchers can now access this hardware-efficient architecture through a unified control interface for collaborative experiments.
What a blockbuster week for quantum tech—massive government funding renewals, two companies going public (or nearly), record-breaking hardware launches, and earnings reports that show the industry is finally turning hype into revenue. Here’s the complete rundown of the 14 biggest stories your Qubit Report Staff compiled
Alice & Bob has announced Felis 1.0, a toolbox featuring the first-ever logical qubit emulator. Felis helps users to prepare for practical quantum computing by facilitating the transition from NISQ devices to fault-tolerant algorithms. Built on top of Qiskit, Felis adds cat-qubit-specific capabilities for algorithm development and experimentation.