Classiq Technologies expanded its Series C fundraising with new investments from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and CDP Venture Capital, following their earlier $110M round. D-Wave Quantum Inc. launched a strategic cryogenic packaging initiative in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fujitsu, with backing from NEDO, AIST, and RIKEN, began developing a superconducting quantum computer expected to exceed 10,000 qubits by 2030, expanding their STAR architecture and focusing on chip-to-chip integration and scalable error correction. Kubernetes announced the ability to configure post-quantum algorithms for TLS in its upcoming v1.34 release, reflecting increased urgency in cybersecurity. DARPA unveiled the HARQ program, aiming for scalable, heterogeneous quantum architectures to address military requirements in 2025. Argonne National Laboratory led a discovery of promising qubit defects in magnesium oxide, advancing spin-based quantum memory research. Xanadu and HyperLight set new photonic chip benchmarks with sub-2dB/m waveguide loss and record-low switch loss, highlighting commercial viability for photonic quantum computers. Cisco Quantum Lab introduced a chip generating 200 million entangled photon pairs per second at room temperature, facilitating quantum networking over standard fibers.
Thanks Sergio for keeping your finger on the pulsde of the quantum ecosystem - so helpful!