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Google Quantum AI Demonstrates 20-Fold Reduction in Qubits Needed to Break Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Accelerating Post-Quantum Migration Timeline
A Google Quantum AI whitepaper shows fewer than 500,000 qubits could break elliptic curve cryptography in minutes, a 20-fold improvement over prior estimates that accelerates the post-quantum migration timeline.
Oratomic Launches With Caltech Research Showing Shor's Algorithm Is Feasible With Just 10,000 Neutral-Atom Qubits
A Caltech-backed startup claims utility-scale quantum computers need far fewer qubits than previously estimated, potentially accelerating the timeline for cryptographically relevant machines to the end of the decade.
Turing Award Goes to Quantum Science for the First Time as Bennett and Brassard Win Computing's Highest Honor
Charles H. Bennett of IBM Research and Gilles Brassard of the Université de Montréal have received the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award for founding quantum information science, including the BB84 quantum cryptography protocol and quantum teleportation.
Xanadu Clears Final Shareholder Vote to Become the First Publicly Traded Photonic Quantum Computing Company
Crane Harbor shareholders approve SPAC merger with Xanadu Quantum Technologies, clearing the way for a $3.6 billion Nasdaq and TSX listing under ticker XNDU on March 27.
Neutral Atom Quantum Computers Enter the Error-Correction Era as QuEra, Microsoft, and Pasqal Deploy Commercial Systems in 2026
2026 marks the transition from noisy quantum experiments to error-corrected commercial systems, with neutral atom platforms from QuEra, Atom Computing, and Pasqal leading the charge.
Scientists Achieve First Real-Time Readout of Majorana Qubits, Clearing a Key Hurdle for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Researchers at Delft and CSIC Madrid have demonstrated single-shot parity readout of Majorana qubits in Nature, solving a decades-long measurement problem.
Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Lab Demonstrate In-Vacuum Cryoelectronics for Ion-Trap Quantum Computers, Opening Path to Tens of Thousands of Qubits
A DOE-backed proof-of-concept integrates cryogenic control chips directly into ion traps, potentially removing a key bottleneck blocking large-scale quantum computers.
Cisco and Qunnect Demonstrate First Metro-Scale Quantum Entanglement Network Across New York City
Cisco and Qunnect achieved first metro-scale quantum entanglement swapping over 17.6 km of commercial NYC fiber, surpassing previous benchmarks by 10,000x.
Delft Researchers Crack the Readout Problem for Majorana Qubits, Reviving the Case for Topological Quantum Computing
A QuTech team achieves first single-shot parity readout of Majorana qubits using quantum capacitance, demonstrating millisecond coherence and solving a key bottleneck for topological quantum computers.
D-Wave's $550M Quantum Circuits Acquisition Accelerates Error-Corrected Gate-Model Computing
D-Wave Quantum Inc. announces $550 million acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc. to combine annealing and gate-model quantum technologies, with first dual-rail system planned for 2026 delivery.
Stanford's Optical Cavity Arrays Chart Path to Million-Qubit Quantum Computers
Stanford researchers demonstrate a scalable optical cavity system enabling parallel readout of quantum bits, with prototypes already exceeding 500 cavities.