The Quantum Insider

Quantum World Tour: Australia is streaming now! 🇦🇺 Join the livestream at the link in the comments. Hosted by the International Telecommunication Union and The Quantum Insider, this 90-minute session will explore how Australia is turning research excellence into real-world impact across quantum computing, sensing, and communications. Cierra Choucair, Director of Strategic Content at Resonance, will be presenting an overview of Australia’s ecosystem and moderating discussions with: - Petra Andrén, CEO, Quantum Australia - Jingbo Wang, Director, The University of Western Australia - Marcus Doherty, Co-Founder & CTO, Quantum Brilliance - Trudy Kennedy, Manager, Critical Technologies Growth Team, Australian Department of Industry, Science and Resources - Aaron Tranter, CEO, Aqacia - Cassandra Chua, Senior Quantum Scientist, Emergence Quantum - Kyle Hardman, Co-Founder & CEO, Nomad Atomics - Peter Turner, CEO, Sydney Quantum Academy The series explores how nations can turn vision into infrastructure, talent, and commercialization, ultimately tracing the next living blueprint for the global quantum economy. Gillian Makamara International Year of Quantum Science and Technology AI for Good United Nations #QuantumForGood #QuantumWorldTour #IYQ2025

Quantum is accelerating and so is the conversation. Join us at Q2B25 (QC Ware Corp.) Silicon Valley, the quantum community’s premier event, bringing together global leaders, researchers, and innovators for three days of talks, panels, and connections. Featuring John Preskill (Caltech) and Scott Aaronson (The University of Texas at Austin) — two of the field’s most influential voices. 💡 New this year: A special Day 3 program (Dec 11) with affordable passes for students, startups, and first-time attendees — expanding access to the next generation of quantum talent. 📍 Santa Clara Convention Center, CA 🗓️ Dec 9–11, 2025 🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/gi7GZzge

Quantum technologies are no longer emerging, they’re accelerating. 💥 Next week, Join our CEO Alex C. as he joins the Quantum Nexus webinar Global Advancements in Quantum to present a data-driven outlook on the state of the global quantum technology market. Expect key insights on: • Investment trends and valuations • Core technology breakthroughs • The growing wave of end-user engagement 🗓️ Tuesday, 28 Oct 2025 | 🕐 2–3 PM (Riyadh) 🔗 Register now via link in our comments. Saad AlOwayyed, PhD, MBA, C4IR Saudi Arabia, Saudi Quantum Computing Association, Muhammad Al-Saiyari محمد الصيعري

🌴 Missed out on Quantum Beach 2025?   Don’t worry, we’re here to recap what an incredible day it was at the Kravis Events Center in West Palm Beach. Created and produced by The Quantum Insider, Quantum Beach 2025 brought together leaders from across the global quantum ecosystem to explore investment, innovation, and Florida’s growing role in the quantum economy.   Among those in attendance was Evan Kubes, President of Resonance, who shared his perspective on the event’s impact: “Quantum Beach 2025 captured the momentum and excitement building around quantum technologies. Seeing the public and private sectors come together, from startups to global players, made it clear that Florida is becoming a true hub for quantum innovation.” – Evan Kubes, President, Resonance   A huge thank you to our partners, Quantum Coast Capital and the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, Inc. for helping make this event part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ2025). #Quantum #QuantumTechnology #QuantumBeach #IYQ2025

Google now 13,000 times faster... IonQ hits 99.99. And the U.S. government reportedly mulls equity investments in quantum companies. (Now they just need a clever finfluencer handle to post their positions and predictions on X -- something like @UnitedStonks) And more news in quantum! New York University Quandela XPRIZE Universal Quantum #quantumtechnology #quantumcomputing #quantumcomputer #quantumsensing

💫 What’s the real job of a leader? In the latest episode of The Quantum Economy Podcast, Anders Indset sits down with Chris Ballance, co-founder & CEO of Oxford Ionics (now part of IonQ), physicist, and one of the leading minds in trapped-ion quantum computing. At the heart of their conversation is Chris’s conviction: the future of quantum and of humanity, depends not on algorithms alone, but on our ability to engineer, adapt, and create meaning through technology. 🎧 Listen now via the links in the comments. #QuantumComputing #Podcast #Quantum #TechPodcast

🇬🇧 Universal Quantum CEO Warns UK Risks Losing Global Lead Without Faster Action on Quantum Investment Dr. Sebastian Weidt, CEO and co-founder of Universal Quantum, has urged Parliament to move faster to secure the UK’s position as a global quantum leader, warning that “the UK risks losing its unfair advantage” if government investment, procurement, and manufacturing support don’t accelerate. Speaking before Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, Weidt outlined a five-step plan to protect the nation’s quantum leadership: 🔹 Faster Investment — Speed up funding decisions and reduce risk aversion. 🔹 Domestic Manufacturing — Build facilities to produce full-scale quantum computers in the UK. 🔹 Anchor Procurement — Use government contracts to validate and scale British tech. 🔹 Defense Integration — Coordinate quantum adoption across defense and security programs. Weidt emphasized that the UK’s science and talent base is world-class, but pointed to Germany’s €70M contracts with Universal Quantum as evidence that faster, decisive government support is needed to anchor quantum capability at home. Read the full story via the link in our comments.

U.S. Government Reportedly Exploring Equity Stakes in Quantum Computing Firms 🇺🇸 According to reports from Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. government is in discussions with several quantum-computing companies — including IonQ, Rigetti Computing and D-Wave, to take equity stakes in exchange for at least $10 million in federal funding per firm. If confirmed, this would mark a rare shift toward direct government ownership in private tech companies, signaling a bold approach to strengthening national leadership in quantum technologies. 🔹 Talks reportedly led by the Department of Commerce’s CHIPS R&D Office 🔹 At least $10M per company proposed in exchange for equity 🔹 Other firms, including QCi and Atom Computing, may also be involved 🔹 Stocks of quantum companies surged following the reports While the Commerce Department says no deals are finalized, the move could represent a new model of public–private partnership — blending innovation support with strategic oversight as the U.S. accelerates its race for quantum advantage. 👉 Full story via link in our comments.

Google Quantum AI pushes toward practical quantum advantage ⚛️ Using its 65-qubit superconducting processor, Google Quantum AI ran a complex physics simulation 13,000x faster than the world’s most powerful supercomputer — marking a major leap into the beyond-classical regime. 🔹 New Quantum Echoes algorithm measured second-order out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC₂), revealing quantum interference phenomena that classical machines can’t efficiently replicate. 🔹 What would take 3.2 years on the Frontier supercomputer ran in just 2.1 hours on Google’s quantum processor. 🔹 First practical quantum advantage tied to real-world physics — extending applications like NMR spectroscopy and quantum chaos modeling. 🔹 Validates both hardware and algorithmic progress on Google’s dual-track quantum roadmap. “This makes good on Feynman’s dream,” said Hartmut Neven, VP of Engineering at Google. “Verifiable quantum predictions, generated and checked against nature itself.” 👉 Read the full article via the link in our comments.