The Quantum Observer

Insider Brief Zapata Quantum announced the appointment of three industry leaders—Steve Suarez, Steven Lau, and M. Jeff Brittain—to its Growth Advisory Board to support enterprise adoption and vertical-specific quantum applications. The new members bring experience […]

Insider Brief Serendipity Capital reported strong FY25 results, with group valuation reaching $1.25 billion, total net asset value of $810 million, and NAV per share growth of 9.9x since inception. The firm generated a 53% […]

Insider Brief Researchers at Quantinuum and collaborators demonstrated quantum computations using up to 94 protected logical qubits, showing that encoded qubits can outperform unprotected hardware operations on a trapped-ion quantum processor. The study reports logical […]

Insider Brief Researchers at the University of Sydney built an ultra-compact nanophotonic AI chip that performs neural network calculations using light instead of electricity, enabling computation at the speed of light. The prototype encodes AI […]

Insider Brief IBM researchers are working with messaging platforms including Signal and Threema to explore how quantum-safe cryptographic techniques could be integrated into secure messaging systems. Researchers examined how Signal’s private group messaging protocol could […]

Insider Brief PQShield announced upgrades to its UltraPQ Suite at Embedded World, introducing an embedded post-quantum cryptography (PQC) library with a memory footprint of under 5KB. The updated PQMicroLib-Core enables quantum-resistant cryptography and TLS support […]

Insider Brief ZeroRISC announced the open-source release of its full cryptographic hardware and software stack, combining classical and post-quantum cryptography for embedded silicon platforms. The release includes the Cryptolib and an open silicon platform with […]