IQM sells second quantum computer to Japan’s Toyo
The Spark system is expected to be operational in early 2027
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Bull awarded €31m contract with AEMET to deliver infrastructure for weather forecasting supercomputer
System will be hosted across two sites in Madrid
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Fujitsu develops diamond-spin quantum computer that incorporates tin-vacancy centers
Company claims this approach provides benefits over traditional nitrogen-vacancy centers
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IBM announces availability of its Nighthawk r2 quantum processor
Company claims the chip delivers improvements in quality and speed over Nighthawk r1
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Quantum Motion secures additional investment in extended $160m Series C funding round
Five new investors have participated in the round
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Bitdeer buys 200 acres in Milam County, Texas, to expand AI and HPC data center
Plans to expand AI and HPC capabilities
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Bull selected to deliver AMD-powered Lumi-AI supercomputer
AI supercomputer slated for deployment in H2 2027
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Diraq and Equinix to deploy first quantum computer inside an Australian commercial data center
System expected to be installed at Sydney site by October 2026
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CollPlant Biotechnologies acquires laser-based computing startup LightSolver
Financial terms of deal have not been disclosed
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EuroHPC JU puts out six calls to advance quantum technologies across the continent
Focus on trapped-ion, superconducting, neutral-atom quantum computing, QKD, quantum testing, and experimental pilot lines
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Infleqtion supplies Japanese research team with QPU for neutral-atom quantum computer
Project forms part of Japan’s Quantum Moonshot program
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French quantum computing firm Pasqal completes SPAC merger and goes public
Deal with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II has provided Pasqal with approximately $360 million in cash
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Pasqal partners with Eleven Ventures to expand its quantum computing services in Saudi Arabia
French startup says joint venture will help nurture quantum computing talent in the kingdom
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IBM mainframe chip to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
Two worlds on one chip
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Greenidge Generation rebrands as Vulcan Infrastructure and Power, targets AI/HPC
Moves away from Bitcoin mining to AI and HPC data centers
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IBM successfully demonstrates connection and cooling of two cryogenic modules
Company says demo is important milestone on its path to deploying first fault-tolerant quantum computer
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FBI puts out call for AI hardware procurement contracts
Department seeks up to $88m in AI hardware
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Enterprise quantum spend surpassed combined academic and gov’t investments in 2025, Boston Consulting Group reports
Findings based on responses from more than 200 companies
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Oracle partners with Quantinuum to deploy Helios quantum computer on OCI
Oracle will preview its OCI quantum system in the coming months
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Quantum earnings Q2 2026: D-Wave, Infleqtion, IonQ, and Rigetti publish financial results alongside newly IPO-ed IQM and Quantinuum
Six quantum computing companies now publicly trading following SPAC mergers
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IonQ and EPB to establish Quantum Communications Research Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Announcement comes a year after partners launched the EPB Quantum Center in the same city
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Foxconn subsidiary Visionbay.ai launches 5MW Nvidia-powered AI cluster in Taiwan
Company claims 90 percent capacity already in use
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QuiX Quantum announces commercial availability of Alquor 2.0 quantum photonic processor platform
Rack-mountable platform available in 8-mode, 20-mode, and 32-mode configurations
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NTT invests in OptQC to accelerate optical quantum computing
Expanded partnership moves beyond research to commercialization, targeting a fault-tolerant one-million-qubit system by fiscal 2030
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EU puts out call for tender for seven supercomputing clusters
The Union says its ‘AI gigafactory’ project will unlock at least €20 billion in private investment
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NOAA selects Google Cloud for HPC infrastructure to predict weather patterns
Will provide cloud-based compute for the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System
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HPE, Rigetti partner for hybrid quantum-classical computer deployment at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center testbed
Project supported by $5m grant from NSF
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Infleqtion to deploy quantum computer at Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics Park
System has an expected delivery date of 2027