Yuval Boger interviews mathematician Gil Kalai about his long-standing skepticism regarding scalable quantum computing. Kalai explains two main arguments behind his theory: correlated noise that may defeat quantum error correction and complexity-based limits on NISQ […]
As Beijing’s 15th Five-Year Plan designates quantum as the country’s top “future industry,” two startups close ~$145 million rounds within days of each other, marking the return of large-scale capital to a sector that went quiet […]
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. One Tuesday in June 2025, a white Chevy Suburban set off down the northernmost highway in North America. The sun of Alaska’s polar summer hadn’t set in […]
Insider Brief QBoson raised CNY1 billion ($145 million) in a Series B round to scale quantum chip production and expand its computing systems. The company will use the funds to build a pilot chip production […]
The electrons that power our society flow left and right through the circuitry in our electronics, back and forth along the transmission lines that make up our power grid, and up and down to light […]
Q-Factor, a Tel Aviv-based quantum hardware startup, has exited stealth with $24 million (USD) in seed funding to develop a million-qubit neutral atom quantum computer. The investment round was led by NFX and TPY Capital, […]
Insider Brief Q-Factor raised $24 million in seed funding to develop a neutral atom quantum computing architecture designed to scale from thousands to potentially millions of qubits. The company aims to address a central industry […]
Insider Brief Quantum computing poses a fundamental threat to widely used encryption systems including RSA, elliptic curve cryptography, and Diffie-Hellman key exchange, which secure everything from online banking to government communications, with algorithms like Shor’s […]
Insider Brief A new theoretical study finds that noise in quantum circuits effectively limits their usable depth, causing deep circuits to behave like much shallower ones and reducing their computational advantage. The researchers show that […]
IQM Quantum Computers, in collaboration with Fraunhofer FOKUS, has announced a major update to the Eclipse Qrisp framework, achieving the first full gate-level compilation of Shor’s algorithm at a cryptographically relevant scale of 2048-bit keys. […]
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