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Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) has launched Erado, an open‑source Python library that adds a 16‑qubit AerSimulator backend to its Quantum Computing as a Service (QCaaS) SDK. Erado models erasure noise, dual‑rail qubit encodings and post‑selection on arbitrary Qiskit circuits, letting developers benchmark erasure‑aware noise models and test error‑mitigation strategies before running on hardware. The tool offers configurable parameters such as per‑gate erasure probability, false‑positive and false‑negative detector rates, and idle‑error padding, with two execution modes: exact state‑vector [...]

The Quantum Insider (TQI) has announced a partnership with Swiss non‑profit Tesseract Quantum, the creator of the YouTube channel The Quantum Kid. Launched in June 2025, the channel—run by physicist Katia Moskvitch and her 10‑year‑old son Kai—has amassed over 120,000 subscribers and nearly 3 million views, featuring interviews with Nobel laureates and quantum pioneers. The collaboration will combine TQI’s industry access with the channel’s “explain it to me like I’m 10” style to broaden outreach on quantum research [...]

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) partnered with Trust Base, the digital‑innovation arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group, to benchmark classical, hybrid quantum‑classical and fault‑tolerant quantum algorithms on core financial risk‑modeling tasks. The study compared four architectures—classical Monte Carlo, classical physics‑informed neural networks (PINNs), quantum‑compressed PINNs (QPINNs) and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) via amplitude estimation—across Black‑Scholes/Garman‑Kohlhagen, Dupire local‑volatility and Hull‑White models. QPINNs showed higher parameter efficiency but suffered from latency and noise‑sensitive Gamma calculations, while classical PINNs delivered faster runtimes and greater [...]

Casper College received a $444,059 National Science Foundation grant (Award #2609718) to launch a statewide quantum workforce pipeline in Wyoming. The Innovation in Two‑Year College STEM Education program will deploy 130 portable “Quantum Trunks” across all 23 counties, host an annual summer quantum science camp for high‑school students and teachers, and introduce a new undergraduate course, Quantum Topics and Experiments. The initiative partners with Texas A&M’s Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering and the University of Wyoming, [...]

IQM Quantum Computers has agreed to install its first quantum computer in South America at Brazil’s Eldorado Research Institute in Campinas. The IQM Spark system, slated for Q1 2027, will provide local researchers, universities, and industry partners with direct hardware access, while remote use of IQM’s 54‑qubit cloud system in Europe will enable larger workloads. The deployment aims to foster quantum algorithm development, hardware research, and hybrid HPC‑AI applications across Brazil’s technology cluster.

Alice & Bob, a leader in fault‑tolerant quantum computing, announced a partnership with France’s CEA to embed its quantum software stack into hybrid quantum‑HPC systems. The collaboration will link Alice & Bob’s Helium quantum system to CEA’s Qaptiva platform, enabling access through existing HPC infrastructure. A joint research program will develop algorithms for many‑body physics problems, targeting early fault‑tolerant quantum computers around 2030. The initiative aims to demonstrate industrial‑grade use cases in condensed‑matter physics and accelerate quantum‑HPC [...]

Oracle announced the general availability of Java 27 (Oracle JDK 27), emphasizing enterprise‑grade post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) to counter “harvest now, decrypt later” threats. The release introduces JEP 527, which embeds hybrid key‑exchange algorithms into the javax.net.ssl API, pairing classical TLS 1.3 key exchange with quantum‑resistant encapsulation mechanisms and providing default quantum protection without code changes. Oracle also added Oracle Jipher 20 to the Java Verified Portfolio, a FIPS 140‑3 validated OpenSSL module supporting NIST‑standardized ML‑KEM (Kyber) and ML‑DSA (Dilithium) algorithms. Additional updates include JEP 538 for PEM [...]

The U.S. National Science Foundation and UK Research and Innovation announced a joint $10 million (£7.4 million) program to fund eight transatlantic research teams focused on molecular quantum information science. Each agency contributes roughly $5 million—NSF’s Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences and UKRI’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The initiative builds on a 2025 phase, targeting the synthesis of custom molecular qubits, protection against decoherence, and modeling quantum information transfer in complex chemical reactions. It aligns with the [...]