quantum computing

IBM’s Curioni says under 10% of firms are quantum-safe

Fewer than one in ten organizations worldwide are protected against the security threat posed by quantum computing, Alessandro Curioni, IBM's International Business Machines Corporation vice president for Europe and Africa, told AFP on Wednesday, Oct. 14. He warned that the…

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Duke team simulates Big Bang matter creation on a quantum computer

Researchers at the Duke Quantum Center have used a trapped-ion quantum simulator to observe string-breaking dynamics — a process tied to the creation of matter in the earliest moments after the Big Bang — in a study published Wednesday in…

IBM unveils error-fixing method as tech giants race toward commercial quantum computing

Two of Silicon Valley's legacy chipmakers are staking their futures on quantum computing, each unveiling advances aimed at solving the technology's most stubborn problems — error correction and extreme cooling — with the goal of reaching commercial viability before the…

Stanford physicists observe quantum jump in sound for first time

A team of Stanford physicists has documented the first direct observation of a quantum jump in sound, capturing the instant a single unit of vibration — known as a phonon — dropped from one energy level to another inside a…

New benchmark finds quantum computers 100,000x short of scientific utility

Current quantum computers remain roughly five orders of magnitude below the computational capability needed to tackle recognized scientific problems, according to a new benchmarking study posted on the arXiv preprint server. The finding, from researchers at Sandia National Laboratories with…

Quantum computer simulates energy converting into matter in particle collisions

A team of physicists has used a digital quantum processor to simulate the conversion of kinetic energy into new particles during a collision — one of the most fundamental processes in nature — marking a milestone in the convergence of…

Quantinuum demonstrates exponential quantum edge in new test

A research team led by Quantinuum has demonstrated that a quantum computer can exponentially outperform any classical strategy in a newly devised test, with the gap between the two growing larger as the problems scale up. The results, published Tuesday…

IonQ publishes blueprint for cracking Bitcoin’s encryption with 20,000 qubits

IonQ on Tuesday published what it calls the first fully compiled, end-to-end resource estimate for breaking 256-bit elliptic-curve cryptography using Shor's algorithm on a fault-tolerant trapped-ion quantum computer. The study concludes that a machine with 19,397 physical qubits could crack…

Fujitsu unveils diamond-spin quantum computer prototype

Fujitsu on Tuesday announced it has built what it describes as the world's first working prototype of a diamond-spin quantum computer, a hardware approach that diverges from the superconducting qubit systems pursued by IBM International Business Machines Corporation and Google…

G7 calls on governments to fast-track quantum-safe encryption

The G7 Cyber Security Working Group and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a joint statement on September 3 calling on governments and organizations worldwide to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptography, warning that the threat posed by…

IBM releases Nighthawk r2, its fastest quantum processor

IBM International Business Machines Corporation has made available its fastest quantum processor, the Nighthawk r2, a 120-qubit chip capable of executing more than 100,000 quantum circuits per second — 25 times the throughput of the company's Heron processors. The processor,…

IBM completes acquisition of HRL Laboratories to boost quantum computing

IBM International Business Machines Corporation announced on Wednesday that it has completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, a research and development institution formerly owned by Boeing The Boeing Company and General Motors, in a deal aimed at accelerating the company's…

Quantum computing’s looming threat to encryption spurs urgent migration push

Fresh reporting from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal this week underscores the tension at the heart of quantum computing: the same technology that promises to revolutionize drug discovery, materials science, and artificial intelligence could shatter the cryptographic foundations protecting…

Cloudflare says AI agents now generate 60% of its traffic

Traffic generated by artificial intelligence agents on Cloudflare's network has surged more than 1,700% over the past year, now accounting for roughly 60% of total traffic, the company's Asia-Pacific leadership disclosed Tuesday at a media briefing in Seoul.

IBM connects two quantum fridges in step toward fault-tolerant computing

IBM International Business Machines Corporation announced Wednesday that it has successfully joined and cooled two modular cryogenic systems into a single ultra-cold environment, marking a key engineering step on its path to building a fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029.

IBM uses quantum computing to tackle fusion energy fuel challenge

IBM International Business Machines Corporation and Finnish quantum software firm Algorithmiq have demonstrated that a quantum computer can solve a complex materials simulation problem that no classical method has been able to reliably replicate, in what the companies describe as…

IBM and University of Chicago claim verified quantum advantage

IBM International Business Machines Corporation and researchers from the University of Chicago have demonstrated quantum advantage — completing a verified computation in approximately 15 minutes that would require prohibitive runtimes for leading classical simulation methods, the organizations announced on July…

IBM claims quantum advantage as Bitcoin security fears mount

IBM International Business Machines Corporation and Algorithmiq announced on Wednesday that they had demonstrated quantum advantage — showing a quantum computer could solve a specific simulation task more efficiently than leading classical methods — a milestone the company had been…

IBM says quantum computers now outperform classical systems with verifiable results

IBM International Business Machines Corporation announced on Thursday that quantum computers have reached a stage where they can perform calculations beyond the practical reach of classical systems while simultaneously providing trustworthy, verifiable results — a milestone the company calls "quantum…

IBM and partners claim quantum advantage over classical supercomputers

IBM International Business Machines Corporation and two software partners announced on Thursday what they described as breakthrough demonstrations of quantum advantage — instances in which quantum computers produced trusted results that leading classical methods, including those run on supercomputers, could…

Nine major firms launch Bitcoin Security Alliance with $15M quantum defense pledge

Nine financial institutions and Bitcoin companies announced the formation of the Bitcoin Security Alliance on Wednesday, collectively pledging $15 million over three years to fund developers and researchers working on the cryptocurrency's long-term security, with a particular focus on quantum-computing…

IBM to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing, GM

IBM International Business Machines Corporation announced on Tuesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories, a private research and development institution jointly owned by Boeing The Boeing Company and General Motors, in a deal that adds…

German startup launches room-temperature quantum computers

German quantum computing startup SAXON Q has announced the commercial availability of its SXQ128 and SXQ512 systems — 128-qubit and 512-qubit diamond-based quantum computers that operate entirely at room temperature, marking a leap from the company's previous 10-qubit-class machines to…

ISO adopts quantum-resistant encryption standard amid growing cyber threats

The International Organization for Standardization has formally adopted the Classic McEliece algorithm into its standard for asymmetric ciphers (ISO/IEC 18033-2), giving organizations across 177 member states a recognized framework for deploying quantum-resistant encryption. The standardization, announced this week by London-based…

Researchers achieve universal quantum gates using exotic anyons on real hardware

Researchers have achieved a universal set of quantum gates by braiding and fusing exotic quasiparticles called non-Abelian anyons on a real quantum processor, a result published in Nature on July 15. The experiment, carried out on Quantinuum's 54-qubit H2 trapped-ion…

German physicists trap single atoms for two hours in quantum computing advance

Physicists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching, Germany, have demonstrated a vacuum-limited trapping lifetime of more than 7,000 seconds — approximately two hours — for single strontium-88 atoms held in an optical tweezer array, setting a new record for…

Two labs achieve steady-state qubit entanglement independently

Two research groups working on opposite sides of the Atlantic have independently demonstrated a way to keep physically separated qubits continuously entangled without the precisely timed control pulses that typically make remote entanglement an engineering bottleneck. The parallel results, published…

ETH Zurich builds quantum chip that stores data as vibrations

Researchers at ETH Zurich have built a quantum computing chip that stores information as microscopic mechanical vibrations rather than electromagnetic fields, marking a departure from conventional quantum memory designs and providing what the team calls proof of feasibility for a…

Quantum startup Oratomic emerges with $300M to build fault-tolerant computer

Oratomic, a Pasadena-based neutral-atom quantum computing startup, has emerged from stealth with $300 million in Series A funding and a bold claim: a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer could be operational by the end of the decade.

IBM quantum computer simulates hadronization for first time

A physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has used an IBM International Business Machines Corporation quantum computer to simulate hadronization — the process by which quarks bind together through the strong nuclear force to form composite particles such as protons…