NSA has moved its post-quantum deadline for National Security Systems to 2027, two years ahead of Cloudflare, Google and Microsoft, a dev.to post reports. That account is secondhand, so whether suppliers to those systems have to re-plan their migrations depends on what the agency's own statement says.
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Surrey physicists have designed a superfluid-helium qubit that, by their calculations, would err about 100 times less often than superconducting qubits. No device has been built yet, so the figure is a prediction until the team's planned prototype measures it.
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University of Pennsylvania physicists entangled four qubits in a diamond defect within 14.8 microseconds, ten times faster than pairwise gates. Run at room temperature, the parallel gate was also more accurate than the step-by-step version.
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The milestone is packaging, not qubits: box-shaped cryostats that pack in rows, a cold volume 12 times larger, and a coupler meant to knit hundreds of chips into one machine.
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Physicists at Stanford, the University of Chicago and SLAC let one superconducting qubit address seven memory cells, at about 1.2% error per access. The tests measured access error, much of it from crosstalk between cells, so the promised cut in wiring per qubit is still a design argument.
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Maryland has committed $52.5 million of a four-year ceiling of up to $100 million for a Discovery District quantum hub. In exchange, DARPA stops evaluating Microsoft's hardware remotely from Redmond and Europe.
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Montana Instruments says its RapidCycle 100 EC cools to 4 K in an hour and warms back about as fast. On the company's own figures, that puts cryogenic screening of ordinary electronic parts on a bench timescale.
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Shunkai holds its qubits in optical tweezers at room temperature, starts with about 50 of them, and is slated to join a shared supercomputing facility as a quantum-GPU hybrid. Its scale-up target of 10,000 qubits is dated March 2031.
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The zero-knowledge proof in the March 2026 white paper turned out to certify false statements too, and Scientific American reports the algorithm Google was protecting stayed secret for only a few days.
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The federal government is funding exactly half of Anderon's upstate New York plant. The outside customers IBM hopes to sell wafers to include three quantum developers that each took up to $100 million from Commerce this month.
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The Quantum Genesis Q Competition asks companies for machines that run hundreds of millions of fault-tolerant operations on at least 100 logical qubits, and $200 million of the $215 million sits in prize pools.
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Stanford physicists report in Science the first real-time observation of quantum jumps of sound, using a superconducting qubit to check a mechanical resonator hundreds of times during its two milliseconds of vibration.
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CUDA-Q Logical lets researchers swap error-correction codes and hardware architectures and recompute the resource estimate. Sandia's QUOPS benchmark for logical-qubit readiness now reaches the industry through NVIDIA's platform.
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Google said faster progress in quantum hardware and error correction moved its migration to 2029. A Caltech, Berkeley and Oratomic paper published the same month put the qubits needed for Shor's algorithm as low as 10,000.
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Physicists at Louisiana State University report a quantum reservoir built from bright classical light and photon-by-photon detection, running at room temperature with 861 measurable components and multiphoton systems as large as 40 photons.
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PhysicsX's $135m Series B, led by Atomico, drew Siemens in as a strategic investor even as Siemens sells its own Simcenter solvers, and those two European rounds carry the whole case for simulation as a growth sector.
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The account has the agent picking measurement parameters, driving the lab hardware, reading the results and choosing the next step on a superconducting chip at MIT, with the graduate student keeping the ambiguous data.
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Eigen Labs' ECDSA.Fail leaderboard took the resource score for one step of a quantum key recovery from 10.75 billion to 1.496 billion by July 26, while the defense side works to fixed dates in 2029 and 2030.
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Three regulators have now dated the migration away from today's encryption, and the nearest date belongs to FINMA, which wants supervised institutions to get a post-quantum strategy through the board by mid-2027.
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Eigen Labs' ECDSA.Fail contest drove a point-addition resource score from 10.75 billion down to 1.496 billion. Neither IonQ nor Google has built the machine, and the end-to-end attack estimates that matter are still theirs.
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- Brussels asks Europe's 78 quantum startups to consolidate on a budget of nothing
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- The quantum race stopped being about money. It now hands boards two dates: 2029 and 2030
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- Vienna's plan to put a trapped-ion quantum computer inside an electron microscope
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- Cambridge theory paper shrinks the space where quantum advantage can hide
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- Pasqal's prompt-to-circuit agent still needs a physicist in the loop
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- Most quantum computing results do not re-run, so treat advantage claims as unverified
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