This week is about (not cooper) pairs. IonQ and the UAE, Softbank and Quantinuum, Entrust and Secrtigo, Alice & Bob… (ok that last one was a bad pun).IonQ formed a strategic alliance with the UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute to advance quantum hardware. Alice & Bob raised €100 million led by Future French Champions, AXA Venture Partners, and Bpifrance for its “cat qubits,” praised by Holger Mueller of Constellation Research as a stride for Europe’s quantum sector. SoftBank Corp. and Quantinuum sealed a partnership to accelerate quantum adoption and define revenue models. Infinity’s 2025 energy report underscored how BP and Alliander, with Kvantify, Xanadu, and others, are driving quantum solutions. The European Commission committed €3 million to develop a GeSi chip merging electronics and photonics, and Entrust sold its public certificate business to Sectigo to meet urgent post-quantum cybersecurity needs. Research advances included the unveiling of Wave Photonics and Conrnerstone’s SiNQ platform, featuring a 1056-element PDK spanning 493–1550 nm, which the CEO likened to “assembling Lego blocks.” A hybrid quantum–classical framework tackled the “undruggable” KRAS protein in Nature Biotechnology, while a new paper from Nu Quantum on hyperbolic Floquet codes marked progress in error correction. Chen’s team at AIP introduced a technique to measure parasitic losses in superconducting resonators, potentially boosting qubit coherence.
qauntum Pirates is one of my 'go-to' sources for important insights into the quantum ecosystem Tnanks Sergio!