IBM Archives

The Qubit Report: September 10, 2026

IBM and Lockheed Martin set a Swiss quantum hub with ETH Zurich, and a System Two bound for Lugano is due at CSCS by year-end 2026. LUMI AI Factory booked IQM’s Halocene path in Kajaani for 150 physical qubits in 2027 and as many as 9 logical qubits on H5 in 2029, while Cloudflare began validating 2,420-byte ML-DSA-44 DNSSEC on 1.1.1.1. Full briefing adds NIST TES nuclear X-ray counts, an Air Force MagNav hop with 89 percent lower backup error, and source-level caveats on staged logical-qubit claims. There’s a heck of a lot more inside.

September 10, 2026

The Qubit Report: September 9, 2026

Quantinuum posted Helix results on Helios on September 9, 2026, with a 4.6 × 10^-5 per-qubit per-round error and a 99.925 percent logical GHZ lower bound across 20 syndrome rounds. The same wires covered an Xanadu-ASML lithography pact, Altera PQC secure boot on Agilex 3 and Agilex 5, a ₹200 crore (~$24 million) QNu Labs Series A1, and a SandboxAQ AQNav flight on Northrop Grumman’s Lumberjack. Desk-by-desk numbers, caveats on hardware versus finished machines, and source anchors are in the full briefing.

September 9, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending September 5, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up for the week ending September 5, 2026 tracks factories, racks, and post-quantum links moving at the same time. Pasqal signed a multi-year quantum-safe research pact with KACST in Riyadh. Canada put CAD $195 million behind Xanadu’s Inception photonics plant. IBM published Nighthawk r2 at 120 qubits and more than 100,000 circuits per second. Diraq reserved an Equinix cage in Sydney. Quantum-safe overlays flew on Es’hail-1 and a Greece-Cyprus satellite path.

September 4, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending August 29, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up for the week ending August 29, 2026 captures the week quantum computing became a public-market and public-policy story at the same time. Pasqal listed on Nasdaq with €309 million in cash. IBM closed its HRL Laboratories acquisition. NSF put $290 million behind eight Quantum Leap institutes, and Treasury stood up a financial-sector Quantum-Readiness Task Force. Field trials from Q-CTRL and SuperQ, plus Pasqal’s Saudi joint venture, made the laboratory feel far away.

August 28, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending August 22, 2026

Week Ending 21 | 8 | 2026. What a blockbuster week for quantum tech—hubs opening in Colorado and Austin, D-Wave production apps cutting real network load, IBM modular cryogenics online, Pasqal heading for Nasdaq, record 420 km entanglement, and post-quantum crypto now live on Akamai’s network. Read it now!

August 21, 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

IBM Demonstrates Verified Quantum Results That Challenge Classical Methods

IBM and partners from the University of Chicago, Qedma, and Algorithmiq announced three demonstrations of verified quantum results on July 30, 2026. Using Heron processors, the teams executed encoded circuits with up to 70 logical qubits, 74-qubit Floquet dynamics with QESEM mitigation, and heterogeneous matter simulations. Classical methods showed diverging or inconclusive results at the scales reached. Validation frameworks and open release to the Quantum Advantage Tracker enable continued community scrutiny of the claims.

August 2, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending July 25, 2026

This week quantum hardware left the cryostat, governments wrote real checks, and Bitcoin institutions finally funded quantum readiness. IBM’s HRL deal, PsiQuantum’s DARPA expansion, and SaxonQ’s plug-and-play diamond processors show the field is industrializing faster than most roadmaps predicted. Logistics pilots and national platforms prove the applications layer is no longer theoretical.

July 25, 2026

Singapore Armed Forces Partner with IBM to Explore Quantum Computing for Mission Planning and Logistics Optimisation

The Singapore Armed Forces’ Digital and Intelligence Service and Defence Science and Technology Agency have partnered with IBM to evaluate quantum computing for complex mission planning and logistics optimisation. Engineers will develop quantum optimisation approaches while gaining access to IBM quantum resources. Parallel US efforts include DARPA’s ONISQ program and Air Force contracts targeting fleet routing, maintenance scheduling, and supply-chain resilience. Both nations emphasise early skill development and hybrid approaches. Officials note that broad operational utility remains years away while foundational preparation continues.

July 21, 2026

Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending July 11, 2026

This week delivered the kind of concrete progress that separates hype from execution. Keyfactor secured over $1B in growth capital while Qiz Security raised $17M to operationalize post-quantum cryptographic management. The White House Summit outlined more than $2.2B in coordinated support for fault-tolerant systems by 2028, and ORNL deployed a new 20-qubit IQM quantum computer for hybrid HPC workloads. Hardware, policy, and security all moved forward in the same seven days.

July 11, 2026

Tag: IBM