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FROM THE EDITOR.

History may look back on several milestones as the official arrival of quantum technology as an important tech. Maybe Google’s quantum supremacy experiment of 2019? Or, maybe some of the recent real world quantum advantage demonstrations? But, the day when quantum technology became a main discussion point on the G7 agenda will have to be considered as a critical moment in the development of quantum technology.

Quantum tech wasn’t just a side-bar at the meeting, but a meaningful discussion point that spawned a host of recommendations that took both the opportunities — and the threats — of quantum seriously.

What we will look forward to now is the potential for these discussion points to move off the agenda and into the real world.

On my agenda… is congratulating several companies for their early funding rounds. A few we covered this week: Orange Quantum Systems’ €12 million seed round, Xatoms’ $3 Million pre-seed, Project Eleven’s $6 million round and QuantWare’s additional $4.5 million in funding.

Some of my tech colleagues insist that they only cover Series B raises and above, or rounds over $100 million. But, after covering quantum for seven-ish years, I’ve witnessed these seed rounds and pre-seed rounds grow to those non-figure raises. And it’s worth covering the complete journey.

The links to those stories are below.

Have a great weekend!

— Matt, Chief Content Officer at The Quantum Insider

INSIDER BRIEF.

• Microsoft’s 4D Quantum Codes Promise Reduction in Error Rates

• Exclusive: Krysta Svore Says Codes Are a Step Toward Practical Applications

• Building Quantum Literacy

• Ahoy! Atomic Clock

• Photonic Invests £25 Million in UK Facility

• Pasqal In Canada

• This One Goes to Eleven

• QuantWare Secures Additional Funding

• Orange You Glad You Asked For Seed Funding

• Xatoms Secures $3 Million in Pre-Seed

ANALYST NOTES.

The Noteworthy & Nuanced

Blacks holes and quantum machine learning - totally unrelated, right? Well, research suggests a connection between the evaporation process of a black hole and the so called “double descent” effect in machine learning. This would mean that insights from quantum gravity can teach us about quantum algorithms, particularly about information retrieval.

Protein folding is a key use case for quantum computing in life sciences. Thanks to a 36 qubit trapped ion computer, researchers have solved the folding problem for proteins with up to 12 amino acids, reportedly the largest demonstration on real quantum hardware. In their paper Kipu Quantum and IonQ highlight the benefits of all to all connectivity that trapped ions provide. Stay tuned to see how this story… unfolds. — Alan Kanapin, Analyst at The Quantum Insider

The Research Rundown

The child in me who dreamed of being a scientist is ecstatic — this week in research, the black hole information paradox is reframed through the lens of machine learning and the emergence of quantum algorithms that treat noise as not a bug, but a feature.

In a theoretical crossover, researchers modeled black hole evaporation as a kind of quantum regression task, drawing a parallel between the Page time (when Hawking radiation begins to reveal lost information) and the double descent phenomenon in overparameterized machine learning. While the black hole doesn’t “learn,” the spectral structures that govern its information release bear uncanny resemblance to those found in high-dimensional learning systems. The analogy doesn’t propose new physics, but it does hint at a deeper shared geometry between gravity and generalization, where information, once thought lost, becomes recoverable by understanding how complex systems organize it.

Meanwhile, in the more (literally) down-to-earth realm of quantum computing, noise has long been viewed as a limitation of current hardware. But a growing class of techniques known as Noise-Adaptive Quantum Algorithms challenges that narrative. Instead of suppressing noise, these algorithms mine it for useful structure, aggregating insights across many imperfect outputs to reshape the optimization landscape in real time. The result is stronger solutions, especially in combinatorial optimization problems, even before fault tolerance is achieved.

Instead of fighting complexity, clearly it’s better if we work alongside it. — Cierra Choucair, Journalist & Analyst at The Quantum Insider

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INSIDER SPOTLIGHT: G7 Commits to Global Coordination on Quantum Technology As Strategic Stakes Rise

➡️ The G7 has formally placed quantum technologies on its strategic agenda, pledging coordinated action across research, commercialization, cybersecurity, and workforce development.

➡️ A Joint Working Group on Quantum Technologies will be formed to guide policy, standards, and international cooperation across both civil and defense applications.

➡️ The leaders acknowledged quantum’s dual-use nature — transformative potential in sectors like finance and health, and looming risks to cybersecurity and global stability.

➡️ The declaration includes measures to boost public and private investment, build inclusive talent pipelines, and establish trusted global ecosystems for secure technology development.

Analyst Commentary

We might expect this week’s signal on the direction that quantum is heading would come from a research lab, or from a venture capital firm investing in the latest quantum startup. And, for sure, we saw those signals this week. But, arguably the brightest signal came from the mountains of Alberta, where the G7 leaders issued a joint statement putting quantum squarely on the geopolitical map.

For those who’ve wondered when world governments would start taking quantum seriously — we have your answer.

The G7 agreement marks the clearest signal yet that quantum is no longer niche science or speculative hype. It’s now a matter of international policy. The fact that heads of state felt compelled to coordinate on quantum at the same table where they discuss global security, supply chains, and economic resilience — that alone speaks volumes. Quantum has arrived.

But this wasn’t just symbolic. The G7’s quantum agenda reads like a comprehensive to-do list for a sector on the verge of practical deployment. It checks nearly every critical box: from expanding public-private R&D and securing intellectual property to supporting standards development and promoting diversity in the workforce. It even acknowledges the need to future-proof cybersecurity in the face of cryptographically relevant quantum computers.

What strikes us is the document’s maturity. The leaders see quantum broadly and didn’t just mention quantum computing — they laid out a plan that includes quantum sensing, secure communications, and hardware validation through coordinated measurement institutes. The language is sober, precise and clearly informed by real-world technical briefings. This isn’t policy vapor; it’s solid groundwork.

One of the important themes that came up in the discussions is inclusion. The G7 recognized that quantum’s future will hinge not only on logical qubits and error correction but on human capital. They call for mentorships, apprenticeships, and STEM programs to address the looming talent shortage. This is less talk on equity and more an economic imperative.

And then there’s the looming shadow: security. The G7 pulled no punches in acknowledging that quantum computing could break today’s encryption systems. Rather than panic, they called for collective resilience — endorsing post-quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution, while urging international alignment on technical safeguards.

It’s worth emphasizing what the agreement doesn’t do. It stops short of proposing global regulation — and we might suggest wisely so. The tech is still evolving. Instead, it champions voluntary coordination, evidence-based standards, and a flexible working group model. That’s an approach rooted in pragmatism, not control.

So, for perspective, if you’ll allow it: If 2023 was about national quantum strategies and 2024 about VC and startup momentum, 2025 is shaping up as the year of international alignment. The G7 declaration is the first major geopolitical consensus on quantum — and it arrives during the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The timing is no coincidence.

An aside that shouldn’t be an aside: We would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge Canada’s powerful quantum community who lobbied for this G7 attention.

What comes next? The formation of the Joint Working Group will be the test. Can they move from policy language to technical coordination? Will it spark real collaboration on standards, talent pipelines, and IP protection?

If so, this might be remembered as the moment quantum policy grew up.

DATA SPOTLIGHT.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new record for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation—just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7M operations. This record-breaking result represents nearly an order of magnitude improvement over the previous benchmark, set by the same research group a decade ago.

INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS.

🇹🇼 Academia Sinica has launched Taiwan’s first dedicated quantum chip fabrication and testing facilities, successfully producing superconducting qubits using eight-inch semiconductor tools.

🤝 Researchers from Atom Computing, in collaboration with Microsoft Quantum and others, demonstrated that reusing and replenishing ancilla qubits midcircuit enables long-running, fault-tolerant quantum operations on neutral atom systems.

🇮🇳 India has successfully demonstrated entanglement-based free-space quantum communication over a one-kilometer link at IIT Delhi, achieving a secure key rate of 240 bits per second with low error rates.

🪙 Project Eleven has raised $6 million to build quantum-secure infrastructure for Bitcoin and other digital assets, addressing the looming threat of quantum computers breaking current cryptographic protections.

📐 Microsoft has introduced a new class of high-dimensional geometric quantum error-correcting codes that dramatically reduce the number of physical qubits needed for reliable, fault-tolerant quantum computing. These codes, which offer single-shot error correction and are optimized for emerging hardware like trapped ions and neutral atoms, demonstrated up to 1,000× performance improvements in simulations.

🚰 Xatoms, a cleantech startup combining AI and quantum chemistry for water purification, has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to scale its solar-activated material discovery platform. Its technology purifies water in 30 minutes using sunlight or LED light.

🇰🇷 South Korea is rapidly advancing quantum technology from research to real-world application, guided by a $2.3B national strategy focused on hardware development, post-quantum infrastructure, and workforce training.

🧱 DARPA’s OASIC program is building modular, open-access quantum testbeds to help startups and small businesses validate chip-scale technologies like lasers and sensors against state-of-the-art lab systems.

💰️ QuantWare has closed its oversubscribed Series A round at $27 million, securing an additional $4.5 million to expand production of its superconducting quantum processors.

🍊 Orange Quantum Systems has raised €12 million in the largest-ever seed round for the Dutch quantum sector, aiming to eliminate testing bottlenecks in quantum chip production.

💼 Photonic Inc. will invest over £25 million to open a quantum R&D facility in the UK, creating 30+ high-paying jobs and strengthening cross-border collaboration in scalable quantum technologies.

EVENTS.

Now -July 30 -- Womanium & WISER QUANTUM PROGRAM 2025. The 2025 Theme: Quantum solvers: algorithms for the world's hardest problems will be held Mondays & Wednesdays from 10:30 -12:00 ET. Register here.

June 24-26 -- Quantum Korea 2025 will take place in Seoul, South Korea, bringing together global researchers, companies, and policymakers to explore emerging trends across the quantum ecosystem.

June 27-29 -- IYQ Global Event: Communicating Quantum Science and Technology to Public will be held at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea with the main event on June 28, bringing together global experts to explore challenges and strategies in public communication of quantum technologies.

Aug. 31– Sept. 5 -- IEEE Quantum Week 2025 will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Sept. 16-18 -- Quantum World Congress 2025 will be held at Capital One Hall in Greater Washington. The event is a chance for the world’s quantum ecosystem to come together and bring a quantum-ready future into focus.

Sept. 24-25 -- Q2B25 Paris at Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France.

Sept. 29-Oct. 1 -- Quantum.Tech Europe is taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The event will bring together the whole quantum supply chain to drive forward the commercial applications of Quantum Technologies.

Oct. 8 -- The Fifth Anniversary of The City Quantum & AI Summit will take place at the Mansion House in the City of London this year with the subtitle Race for Growth.

Oct. 13-17 -- Quantum Reference Frames 2025 will bring together leading experts on quantum reference frames and the many related subjects in the first focused event in the new era of quantum frame covariance. QRF 2025 is co-funded by the Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime consortium.

Oct. 19-21 -- Q+AI will be held in New York City. This event will uncover the coming wave of Quantum + AI, include 50+ speakers, daily mentoring sessions and 16 sessions, one continuous track.

Nov. 10-12 -- European Quantum Technologies Conference 2025 will be held at Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dec. 1-4 -- QUEST-IS 2025 Quantum Engineering Sciences and Technologies for Industry and Services From Quantum Engineering to Applications for Citizens. EDF Lab, Paris-Saclay, France.