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FROM THE EDITOR.

First, I hope the U.S. readers are enjoying a fun, relaxing holiday weekend.

Second, is it me, or is the summer moving fast?

Another thing that’s moving fast: the quantum industry. This past week in quantum computing is a perfect case in point. It felt less like a routine week and more like a global call to action. Europe sharpened its ambitions with a sweeping Quantum Strategy, Texas passed a law to lock in its quantum future, Asia deepened cross-border partnerships, and researchers unveiled tools to accelerate the shift from theory to application. The message is clear: the quantum race is not cooling off—it’s heating up across all fronts.

Let’s zoom in on Europe — and please look below for a more in-depth take on the subject.

In Brussels, the European Commission unveiled a detailed blueprint to make the EU a quantum superpower by 2030. With pledges to build pilot fabrication lines, launch a pan-European design platform, and train the next generation through a Quantum Skills Academy, the bloc is signaling that it won’t rely solely on research leadership—it wants industrial capacity too.

Not directly linked, but that message of European strength was backed by money: the European Investment Fund committed €30 million to Quantonation II, part of a broader €200 million fund aimed at nurturing quantum and deep physics startups.

There’s a pattern here: Governments are building guardrails, companies are forging alliances, and academics are quietly eliminating friction in the system. The quantum industry is shifting from slow-boil to pressure cooker. For all the debate about timelines and hype, this week showed that quantum is no longer a distant moonshot. It’s being built—now—by policymakers, researchers, and investors who know that falling behind is not an option.

Have a great weekend!

— Matt, Chief Content Officer at The Quantum Insider

INSIDER BRIEF.

• French National Quantum Update

• Pentagon Eyes Deep Tech Investments

• AI-Powered Quantum Circuit Writing

• Are We Ready to Vibe Code With Quantum Computers?

• Ladders, Not Gates For The Quantum Workforce

• Classiq Collaboration

• Seeking Quantum Advantage in Binding Energies Calculations

• Making Chicago a First City in Deep Tech

• Building The Quantum Electric Grid

• QEDMA Raises $26 Million

ANALYST NOTES.

The Noteworthy & Nuanced

While the US is busy celebrating Independence Day, Europe takes this week's spotlight in quantum news. The European Commission has launched the Quantum Strategy to establish Europe as a global quantum leader by 2030. The program targets 5 areas, not only technological (research and innovation, quantum infrastructures, ecosystem strengthening, space and dual-use technologies), but also quantum skills, creating thousands of highly-skilled jobs across the EU by 2040.

Omnes Capital has raised €112M for the first close of its second deeptech fund, Omnes Real Tech 2. This fund is aimed at scaling early-growth European tech companies in defense, AI, quantum, and new space. The strategy is focused on Germany and Italy, but not exclusive to these countries. Quandela (a French company) benefited greatly from Omnes’ previous deeptech fund, and is already marketing its quantum computer in North America.

Stretching the definition of Europe for the sake of the opening line, the Israeli startup QEDMA has raised $26M in Series A led by Glilot+ with participation from IBM, Korea Investment Partners, and others. QEDMA’s software solution targets error correction for quantum computers. In the coming months, QEDMA expects to demonstrate quantum advantage through partnerships with multiple quantum computing companies and research institutions (current partners indicated on the website are IBM and IQM). — 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: Breaking Down Europe’s Coordinated Plan For Global Quantum Leadership

➡️ The European Commission has released a multi-decade roadmap to scale quantum technologies from lab discoveries into industrial systems, anchored by five strategic focus areas.

➡️ The plan includes six pilot chip fabrication lines, a pan-European secure quantum network, a Quantum Skills Academy, and coordinated public procurement to accelerate commercial demand.

➡️ The upcoming Quantum Act (2026) will formalize funding, governance, and standardization, as Europe races to compete with U.S. venture capital and China’s state-led quantum infrastructure.

➡️ Though Europe leads in talent and research, the strategy warns that without investment, scale, and ecosystem coordination, it risks falling behind in the global quantum race. 

Analyst Commentary

Europe has always been home to some of the world’s top quantum scientists — and now it wants to be home to the world’s top quantum businesses.

This week, the European Commission released its Quantum Europe Strategy, a document that was meant to signal a shift in tone and ambition. For years, the region has funded quantum research at scale, producing high-impact publications and nurturing a dense network of research institutions. But scientific excellence doesn’t guarantee market leadership. The new plan is a bid to change that.

The strategy isn’t shy about its goals: industrial scale, strategic autonomy, and a full-stack quantum ecosystem. The message is clear — Europe is done admiring its research output. It wants fabs, field tests, and foreign customers.

At the center of the document is a five-part framework: innovation, infrastructure, ecosystem growth, dual-use applications, and skills. Each is matched by action points, timelines, and pending legislation. This isn’t just white paper language. Europe is standing up six pilot production lines for quantum chips, deploying a continent-wide secure quantum network, and building a training academy to tackle the workforce bottleneck. A formal Quantum Act is expected in 2026 to lock in governance and investment.

There’s a level of realism here that’s worth noting. The strategy doesn’t overhype quantum’s readiness. It acknowledges fragmentation across national programs, warns about scale-up failures, and highlights Europe’s lag in patent filings and VC funding. It also points directly at China’s state-led approach and America’s private-sector muscle — underscoring that leadership isn’t just about scientific prestige but about commercialization, capital, and deployment.

If 2024 was about raising the alarm about quantum, 2025 is about building the scaffolding. The Chips Joint Undertaking will support early-stage quantum chip validation, while EuroHPC will fold quantum into hybrid supercomputing. The EuroQCI initiative will string together Europe’s secure communications infrastructure — satellite and fiber alike. Medical imaging pilots, gravimetry platforms, and defense-aligned sensing applications will test the limits of what’s deployable.

On the security front, the Commission is pursuing a dual-track strategy. It supports civilian deployments like quantum MRI and underground sensing, while investing in battlefield tools like GNSS-free navigation, space-based surveillance, and secure military communications. Europe is planning a Quantum Sensing Space and Defence Roadmap by 2026 and aligning with NATO’s posture on “quantum readiness.”

The plan also tries to correct Europe’s persistent market gap. The Commission proposes procurement schemes that position hospitals, infrastructure agencies, and public-sector buyers as anchor customers for quantum startups. It’s a subtle shift, but an important one — from research grants to customer traction.

And then there’s talent. The Commission is calling the skills shortage what it is — a strategic bottleneck. The European Quantum Skills Academy, due in 2026, will offer technical training, apprenticeships, and virtual coursework to create applied engineers, not just theorists. Diversity and regional inclusion are called out as economic levers, not just equity goals.

So, comprehensive and detailed for sure, but there are some potential issues that demand our attention. Not everyone is convinced the plan goes far enough. That it skimps of real funding for the effort. Another criticism: We are seeing a plethora of roadmaps, strategies, working plans, working groups, etc. etc. There is a concern that if we only focus on plans and roadmaps , the only real jobs in the quantum workforce will be for bureaucrats adept at writing plans and roadmaps. While strategy documents are fine, officials should also develop the general and overall policies — across industries and fields — that balance the need for smart regulation and rewards for entrepreneurship and innovation. This is the only way to truly nurture an entrepreneurial deep tech culture.

Finally, execution will be the real test. Quantum strategies are easy to write and hard to implement, especially across 27 member states. The real work lies ahead: aligning procurement rules, driving standards, deploying pilot projects, and attracting sustained private capital. The Quantum Technology Risk Assessment, due in 2026, may shape how governments approach export controls, onshoring, and supply chain diversification.

Europe’s challenge isn’t ambition. It’s speed and cohesion.

If successful, this strategy could mark the moment Europe transitioned from fragmented excellence to coordinated force — a pivot from talent to traction. But without follow-through, it risks becoming another policy document in a crowded field.

The quantum community is reluctant to call this a race. But, #sorrynotsorry it’s a race. And Europe is no longer content to watch from the podium.

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.

🇨🇦 Canada has launched a national roadmap to migrate all federal non-classified IT systems to post-quantum cryptography by 2035, with key milestones including initial migration plans by 2026 and critical system upgrades by 2031.

✨ Quantinuum has achieved the first universal, fully fault-tolerant quantum gate set with repeatable error correction. Two new studies demonstrate logical gate fidelities that seem to surpass their physical counterparts, validating advanced techniques such as code switching and compact error-detecting codes that could reduce hardware overhead.

🇹🇷 Turkcell, in collaboration with Juniper Networks and ID Quantique, has completed a proof-of-concept demonstrating quantum-safe mobile backhaul security using quantum key distribution. The trial integrated QKD-generated keys with Juniper’s MACsec and IPsec protocols, securing encrypted traffic and 5G Precision Timing Protocols without performance loss.

🤝 Multiverse Computing has partnered with Quebec’s PINQ² to bring its quantum-inspired AI compression technology, CompactifAI, to Canadian businesses, shrinking models like Meta’s Llama 3.1 by up to 80% while reducing energy use and boosting inference speed.

🇵🇱 The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has inaugurated its first operational quantum computer, PIAST-Q, in Poznań, Poland. Built on 20-qubit trapped-ion technology and integrated with HPC systems, PIAST-Q is designed to support hybrid quantum-classical computing for European academic, industrial, and public sector users by the end of 2025.

🛰️ SpeQtral and Thales Alenia Space have expanded their partnership to demonstrate satellite-to-Earth quantum communications using entangled photons, aiming to validate the technical foundations for interoperable global quantum networks.

💵 QEDMA has raised $26 million in Series A funding to advance its platform-agnostic quantum error reduction software, which learns and suppresses hardware-specific noise to enable computations up to 1,000 times larger than current capabilities.

🇺🇸 The Pentagon’s $179 billion FY2026 RDT&E budget reflects a shift toward integrating quantum technology, AI, and space systems as foundational to future defense capabilities.

🪜 The global quantum ecosystem faces a deepening talent crisis, not only due to lack of skill, but because of fragmented pathways, limited access, and exclusionary definitions of who "belongs" in the field.

🤝 MegazoneCloud and Classiq Technologies have signed an MOU at Quantum Korea 2025 to accelerate quantum commercialization in Korea through joint education programs, industry pilot projects, and hybrid cloud integrations.

💸 Omnes Capital has raised €112 million for the first close of its second deeptech fund, Omnes Real Tech 2, which targets early-growth European companies in sectors like quantum, defense, AI, and new space.

🚀 Harper Court Ventures Fund I has launched with $25 million to support pre-seed and seed-stage deep tech startups emerging from the University of Chicago, targeting sectors like quantum, AI, life sciences, and energy.

🇰🇷 Korean quantum software firm ORIENTOM and Thai energy company EQ Tech Energy have signed an MOU to develop a Quantum Electric Grid, using quantum computing to optimize grid operations, enhance simulations, and strengthen cybersecurity.

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.

July 8-11 -- The annual AI for Good Global Summit will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, and feature the inaugural Quantum for Good track. Attendance is free and sessions are available online and in person. Register here.

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.