Nvidia’s new quantum layer cut Fermilab’s design work from five months to three weeks
Nvidia’s new quantum layer cut Fermilab’s design work from five months to three weeks

Nvidia has added an orchestration layer called CUDA-Q Logical to its open-source quantum platform, aimed at the part of fault-tolerant quantum computing that nobody enjoys. Designing an application for a machine that does not exist yet means guessing a…

Phasecraft says it built the largest VQE dataset without using a quantum computer
Phasecraft says it built the largest VQE dataset without using a quantum computer

Phasecraft has produced what it says is the largest known database of variational quantum eigensolver results, more than 3,000 emulations across 13 molecular systems. The work ran on Nvidia Hopper processors hosted at the University of Nottingham, usin…

EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups
EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups

The EU’s forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget.  “The act is not about budget,” said Thomas Skordas, deputy director-general of the European Commission’s DG CNECT, at a European Parliament event last week, on 3rd of September. “…

Novo Nordisk Foundation to build $62M quantum chip plant in Copenhagen
Novo Nordisk Foundation to build $62M quantum chip plant in Copenhagen

Europe is getting a factory for quantum chips rather than another quantum computer. Quantum Foundry Copenhagen, owned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is building a 5,300-square-metre facility in the Danish capital that is due to open in 2027 and will o…

France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue
France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue

Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker PSQL, five months after announcing it would go public through a special purpose acquisition company. Shares surged on the debut, according to Reuters. The merger with Bleichroeder Acquisition Co…

Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre
Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre

Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle will sell access to it as a managed OCI service. No…

IBM just bought a quantum bet it doesn’t build. Days later, the payoff hit Nature.
IBM just bought a quantum bet it doesn’t build. Days later, the payoff hit Nature.

Six days ago, IBM agreed to buy a quantum-computing lab that builds a kind of qubit IBM does not. This week, the lab showed the world why. HRL Laboratories published a result in Nature on Wednesday: a silicon quantum processor that, in effect, runs its…

ZuriQ raises $25.5M to scale its 2D quantum architecture
ZuriQ raises $25.5M to scale its 2D quantum architecture

ZuriQ, a Swiss quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, has raised $25.5 million in a seed round to scale the trapped-ion processors it is building on a new two-dimensional architecture. The money builds on the $4.2 million pre-seed round the …

Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal a $2bn French quantum bet, and a French kill switch
Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal a $2bn French quantum bet, and a French kill switch

France’s Pasqal is heading to Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation, roughly 100 times its revenue. Its own filings spell out two things. Quantum computing might never pay off. And Paris can veto who owns the company. Pasqal, the French quantum-computing firm, is…

Trump signs orders calling for a powerful quantum computer by 2028
Trump signs orders calling for a powerful quantum computer by 2028

Two executive orders set a research-grade target, push the post-quantum cryptography deadline to 2031, and tie $2bn in grants to government equity stakes. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on quantum computing on 22 June 2026, the firs…