The Pentagon links $200M in DARPA quantum funding with a conditional $150M PsiQuantum loan and a new effort to identify defense applications.

Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ enter DARPA QBI Stage C. What the selections and funding mean for useful quantum computing by 2033.

The Netherlands quantum strategy sets PQC targets for central government to 2035. What they require, who pays, and the police CRQC use case.

SAMA's December 31 deadline asks Saudi banks for accurate, comprehensive crypto inventories. What interviews miss, and what evidence should count.

Chains are planning one post-quantum change. Crypto-agility for digital assets means being able to change again, and to retire what you replace.

Microsoft and Qolab set four conditions for a scalable logical qubit. I test ten studies against them and compare DOE's $215M contest rules.

What NATO's first quantum roadmap dates through 2029, what its €8M Brussels–Mons PQC pilot asks of suppliers, and the PQC date it leaves out.

Post-quantum algorithm choices are already changing. Build a crypto-agility program and run the PQC migration as its first test.

Researchers now estimate Classic McEliece key recovery below its claimed security. No practical attack exists. What BSI's new advice means for you.

NSA's October 2026 QKD statement keeps its 2020 verdict for national security systems and adds that certified QKD security can erode in the field.

Clients kept asking Applied Quantum for quantum training. Why I started Quantum Academy, who teaches there, and the rules I'll run it by.

PQC Migration Framework by Marin Ivezic and Applied Quantum is a complete framework / methodology with industry-specific extensions

D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum gave Commerce shares worth their full $100M awards at signing. About half the cash waits on milestones.

Apple Root Program commits to Merkle Tree Certificates for TLS and composite algorithms for S/MIME, adding three-cosignature and 7-day validity rules.

Xanadu and AMD's Backline achieves sub-3µs quantum-classical latency on standard CPUs. Where it fits against NVQLink and QECi.

First surface-code scaling below threshold on non-native hardware. USC and Quantum Elements run the code on IBM's heavy-hex Heron processors.

A single-photon experiment matched Feynman's path-integral rules. What was measured, what was computed, and why it can't show photons take every path.

Riverlane validates its QECi decoder interface on Altera Agilex 7 FPGAs. Qblox then closes a real-time QEC loop at 6.9 µs.

UPenn entangled four qubits in diamond at room temperature with a single gate, about 10× faster than a sequential gate in the same register.

Novo Nordisk Foundation backs 5,300 m² quantum chip fab in Copenhagen. How it compares to KiloFab and what it means for EU sovereignty.

DOE's Quantum Genesis Q Competition offers $215M for 100+ logical qubit systems by 2028. What the structure reveals about federal quantum ambitions.

Gidney's million-qubit RSA estimate assumes a perfect lattice. New IBM-hardware results show what defective qubits really cost.

Infleqtion ran 30 logical qubits in 80 atoms on Sqale using a distance-2 code that detects errors. What the result shows, and what it leaves open.

Several vendors now supply QEC's classical loop, with measured latencies. I check six September results against fault-tolerance timelines.

What quantum computers are for, mathematically: quantum simulation, hidden algebraic structure, and quadratic search. Not combinatorics.

Altera's Agilex 3 and 5 FPGAs ship with ML-DSA secure boot – the first general-purpose FPGA family with PQC at the hardware root of trust.

PQC Migration Framework by Marin Ivezic and Applied Quantum is a complete framework / methodology with industry-specific extensions

Quantum computing for mathematicians: four axioms, one interference trick, Shor and Grover done right, and where the speedup actually comes from.

AI firms need $2.5 trillion a year to justify today's spending. Whether that is 25 or 250 million jobs depends on how much of AI's value they keep.

Carta, PitchBook and Damodaran's numbers on why frontier deals close before anyone can see the physics checked. What it costs quantum, and one fix.

Infleqtion's qLDPC library meets NVIDIA's new CUDA-Q Logical compiler. The encoding ratio is strong; the code has not yet run on hardware.

IBM combines probabilistic error cancellation with error detection, cutting sampling overhead 63×. What it means for near-term quantum advantage.

Harvard extends SiV diamond qubit coherence 3x using phonons – an incremental gain that addresses a key problem for phononic networks.

Twelve MacBook cores kept pace with a simulated 408-logical-qubit ion trap. What IonQ measured, what it assumed, and where its release went further.

An Anthropic researcher used Claude and idle GPUs to factor RSA-896. Two records in 16 days, and why RSA-2048 is still out of classical reach.

FIPS 140-2 certificates move to Historical status on September 21, 2026. What the sunset means for procurement, existing systems, and PQC migration.

An AI-assisted sweep found code bugs in China's NGCC candidates on day one. On day two, other researchers broke five of the designs outright.

PQC Migration Framework by Marin Ivezic and Applied Quantum is a complete framework / methodology with industry-specific extensions

How PQC migration is diverging across the US, Europe, the Gulf and Asia, why each region chose its path, and what they could borrow from each other.

Sandia's QUOPS benchmark scores Google, IBM and Quantinuum hardware, and measures what error correction costs on the same machine.

Classical data centers in space defy thermodynamics. Quantum AI in orbit compounds the impossibility. A technical teardown.

FINMA's quantum guidance puts a mid-2027 date on Swiss PQC roadmaps. I break down the survey data and the supervisory subtext.

WEF's Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026 includes PQC and quantum simulation. A fact-check of its strongest claims and technical errors.

MAS will issue quantum migration supervisory expectations for financial institutions later in 2026, targeting resilience before end of decade.

I've written two articles about Europe's quantum commercialization failures. Now I'm relocating my company's HQ there. Here's why.

Quantum washing borrows the word "quantum" to inflate products, claims, and stock prices. A taxonomy of the practice and how to detect it.

QUARTERNEXT backs CV-QKD within a EuroQCI portfolio that also funds DV and MDI systems. The logic is industrial and strategic.

PQC Migration Framework by Marin Ivezic and Applied Quantum is a complete framework / methodology with industry-specific extensions

Five quantum SPACs listed in 2026 with more queued. I compare the 2021 class's projections to delivered results, and what to check before buying.

The most common question in my board briefings: is Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) real? What the agencies say, and why the harvest is easy.