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FROM THE EDITOR.

I can’t say the quantum industry is entering a new phase. But the industry seems to be coalescing into a unique business environment, one where the lines between public investment and private capital blur. This is creating an ecosystem defined less by siloed breakthroughs and more by shared momentum. Two announcements this week illustrate how this partnership model is becoming the backbone of quantum progress.

In Europe, the launch of 55 North’s €300 million quantum fund signals both ambition and coordination. Anchored by Denmark’s export and investment agency alongside Novo Holdings, the fund has already backed IQM and Kiutra, sending a clear message: governments can catalyze the private capital flows that quantum startups need to reach scale. Denmark’s 2023 National Strategy for Quantum Technology laid the groundwork, and now capital is being deployed with a global lens, stage-agnostically and at speed.

Across the Atlantic, Illinois is putting shovels in the ground on the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP). The multibillion-dollar redevelopment of Chicago’s South Side steel mill into a quantum hub underscores the same principle: long-term government commitments—in this case, $700 million of state investment to date—can attract anchor tenants like PsiQuantum and ignite private-sector interest. The transformation of a once-vacant industrial site into a global center for quantum is both symbolic and practical. It speaks to how quantum is no longer confined to labs and testbeds, but is increasingly tied to jobs, infrastructure, and economic development.

Taken together, these stories highlight a new truth: quantum’s trajectory depends on shared risk and shared vision. Venture funds like 55 North ensure that startups can move from experiment to enterprise, while government-backed campuses like IQMP provide the physical and institutional frameworks to host the next wave of breakthroughs. Neither alone is sufficient. Together, they point to a model where national strategies, venture capital, and corporate bets align to drive the field forward.

For the quantum community, the lesson is clear. Success in this domain will come from partnerships—across borders, sectors, and balance sheets. Quantum is not just a race for supremacy; it’s a collaborative build-out of the world’s next critical technology infrastructure.

So much news this month! A lot to process.

First step? Have a great weekend!

— Matt, Chief Content Officer at The Quantum Insider

INSIDER BRIEF.

ANALYST NOTES.

The Noteworthy & Nuanced

Be sure to add this conference to your calendar! Quantum Machines will host the second Adaptive Quantum Circuits Conference (AQC25) from November 12–14, 2025, at The Langham in Boston. The event will gather more than 150 participants from academia, national labs, startups, and global tech firms like IBM, Google, AWS, and NVIDIA. As you can guess from the name, the conference will focus on adaptive quantum circuits, which use mid-circuit measurement and feedback for improved error correction and algorithm performance.

Scientists are still inventing new ways to store quantum information - researchers at École Polytechnique have created the first superconducting quantum circuit architecture that integrates a carbon nanotube as a qubit. The nanotube-based Josephson junction allows tuning of qubit properties via electrical voltage while maintaining superconducting performance at cryogenic temperatures. The team demonstrated superposition states, measured qubit lifetimes, and explored pathways to improve stability.

Italy just got its biggest quantum computer, as QuantWare has delivered its 64-qubit Tenor quantum processing unit to the University of Naples Federico II. Built on QuantWare’s Quantum Open Architecture (QOA) model, the Tenor QPU reduces cost and deployment time compared to closed full-stack systems. Researchers emphasized how the Tenor’s commercial availability accelerated deployment, while QuantWare highlighted QOA’s potential to broaden access to quantum computing by enabling institutions to integrate high-performance processors into custom systems. — Alan Kanapin, Analyst at The Quantum Insider

The Research Rundown

Check out this week’s handpicked quantum research. These are studies headed for real-world impact: improving accuracy, reducing latency, using fewer resources, or solving problems that classical methods struggle with. These are early developments, but they hint at where quantum might earn its keep.

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🇺🇸 The White House FY 2027 R&D priorities include quantum science and artificial intelligence in the U.S. federal research strategy, directing agencies to balance fundamental research and applied engineering to secure national leadership. The policy links AI and quantum to enabling technologies with crosscutting actions focused on strengthening research infrastructure, expanding the STEM workforce, and protecting U.S. research from foreign exploitation.

🌐 Comcast has launched a quantum lab and begun trials with D-Wave Quantum Inc. and Classiq to explore how quantum computing can improve broadband network management, including traffic optimization and predictive issue resolution.

🇮🇹 QuantWare has delivered its 64-qubit Tenor QPU to the University of Naples Federico II, now Italy’s largest quantum computer. Built under the Quantum Open Architecture (QOA) model, the system reduces cost and build time compared to traditional closed full-stack systems.

🏫 Illinois has broken ground on the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a multibillion-dollar quantum campus on Chicago’s South Side that will turn the former U.S. Steel South Works site into a global hub for quantum computing and advanced manufacturing.

🔒️ Quantum Brilliance, CyberSeQ, and LuxProvide have signed a letter of intent to develop quantum-secure encryption methods that combine PQC with true quantum-derived randomness. The collaboration will integrate Quantum Brilliance’s nondeterministic quantum random numbers into CyberSeQ’s PQC algorithms, with validation on LuxProvide’s MeluXina supercomputer.

🚀 The European Space Agency’s SAGA mission has entered Phase B2 with a €50 million contract awarded to Thales Alenia Space to design Europe’s first government-focused quantum key sharing system.

🚃 Einride, a Swedish company developing digital, electric, and autonomous freight solutions, has raised about $100 million to accelerate deployment of its autonomous freight technology and expand global operations.

🤑 55 North, a Denmark-based venture capital firm, announced the first close of its €300 million quantum technology fund at €134 million, making it the world’s largest dedicated quantum VC.

💵 PINC Technologies, a Caltech spinout, closed its Seed+ round, bringing total funding to $6.8 million to commercialize its scalable nonlinear photonic platform. Led by Quantonation, the round will help PINC accelerate product development and expand applications of nonlinear photonics.

💶 Kiutra has raised over €30 million in a new financing round co-led by NovaCapital and 55 North to scale its helium-3-free magnetic cooling systems for quantum technologies.

🤝 Google Quantum AI has acquired Atlantic Quantum, an MIT-founded startup specializing in superconducting quantum hardware, to advance its roadmap toward error-corrected quantum computers.

💸 Connecticut will invest $50.5 million in New Haven to establish facilities and infrastructure supporting AI, quantum technology, and life sciences, including $10 million for QuantumCT, a joint UConn–Yale initiative driving quantum research, commercialization, and workforce growth.

🚁 Safran Federal Systems has received a DARPA contract under the Robust Quantum Sensor (RoQS) program to develop ruggedized quantum sensors that provide assured Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) in GPS-denied environments. The first phase will involve testing these sensors on a military helicopter.

🤖 EdenBase and Northeastern University London have launched QBase, a Quantum Applications Hub in the City of London that provides startups and enterprises with capital, compute resources, and expertise to accelerate real-world quantum and AI adoption.

🎙️ In the most recent episode of the Quantum Economy Podcast, Anders Indset and Dr. Florian Neukart explore how quantum physics, AI, and philosophy converge, introducing the Quantum Memory Matrix — a model where space-time itself retains information. They discuss emerging quantum applications, the urgency of quantum-safe security, and the role of Artificial Human Intelligence in ethically augmenting human reasoning.

EVENTS.

Oct. 6-10 -- 8th International Conference for Young Quantum Information Scientists (YQIS25) will take place in Barcelona, Spain. YQIS is a conference series organized by and for PhD students and early-career researchers working across the broad field of quantum information.

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. 8 -- The Quantum Insider, in partnership with the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County and Quantum Coast Capital, will host Quantum Beach 2025, an officially recognized event of the International Year of Quantum (IYQ2025). Register here.

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.

Nov. 12-14 -- Quantum Machines, the leading provider of advanced hybrid quantum-classical control solutions, will host AQC25, the second Adaptive Quantum Circuits Conference.

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.

Dec. 3-4 -- Quantum Education Summit 2025, held at CosmoCaixa in Barcelona, will unite educators, researchers, and industry leaders to advance accessible, inclusive, and innovative quantum education.

Dec. 9-11, 2025 -- Q2B 2025 Silicon Valley Q2B is back for the eighth year in a row, connecting the international quantum community computing ecosystems. The event will feature top academics, industry end users, government representatives and quantum computing vendors from all over the world.

January 27 and 28, 2026 -- Qubits 2026 D-Wave is bringing its annual user conference, Qubits, to Boca Raton, Florida. The event will be held at The Boca Raton resort.