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Brookhaven, Stony Brook transmit entangled photons over 13-mile free-space link
– Jennifer Abramowitz/Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have transmitted entangled photons over a 13-mile free-space optical link, adding a wireless connection to an existing 161-mile, eight-node quantum network. The demonstration, announced August 21, is the first free-space optical (FSO) quantum link of its kind in the U.S., according to the institutions.
DARPA backs Qunnect upgrade for more resilient quantum networks
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Qunnect a contract to develop a next-generation rack for the vendor's Carina turnkey entanglement distribution platform. The funding will advance Carina’s polarization-compensation technology, which continuously detects and corrects changes that could corrupt entangled-photon signals traveling over deployed telecom fiber.
Qunnect, Monarch partner on compact quantum networking hardware
Quantum networking company Qunnect partnered with photonics specialist Monarch Quantum to develop more compact and manufacturable versions of its entanglement distribution hardware. The companies will adapt Qunnect’s Carina platform for environments where size, weight, power consumption, and operational flexibility are critical. Target applications include satellites, defense platforms, edge computing infrastructure, remote facilities, telecommunications networks, and IoT deployments.
BTQ validates compute-in-memory accelerator for quantum-proof cryptography
BTQ Technologies and Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) completed the first validation milestone for a hardware architecture designed to accelerate post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The organizations validated BTQ’s Quantum Compute-in-Memory (QCIM) architecture in a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) 28-nanometer design environment, confirming the design's feasibility and functional correctness before fabrication as a test chip.
Quantum networking roadmap identifies infrastructure priorities
Quantum optical switches, repeaters, and satellite infrastructure are the technologies most likely to unlock commercially viable quantum networking, according to a new roadmap from the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C). Developed with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Quantum Networks and industry partners, the report evaluates 10 commercially significant quantum networking applications.
NTT invests in OptQC to accelerate optical quantum computing
NTT has invested in optical quantum computing startup OptQC, expanding a research collaboration launched last year into a broader commercial partnership targeting a fault-tolerant one-million-qubit optical quantum computer by fiscal 2030. The alliance brings together NTT's expertise in optical networking, communications, and data center infrastructure with OptQC's photonic quantum computing technology. Neither company disclosed the value of the investment.
AT&T expands D-Wave quantum network optimization partnership
AT&T expanded its agreement with D-Wave Quantum to apply quantum computing to complex network optimization challenges. In an early application, AT&T reduced the processing time for a network optimization workload from about one hour to less than 15 seconds using D-Wave's annealing quantum technology.
PSC to deploy hybrid quantum-HPC testbed with Rigetti, HPE
James Barr von Oehsen, PSC’s executive director – Tom Altany/University of Pittsburgh The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is partnering with Rigetti Computing and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deploy a hybrid quantum-classical supercomputer. The TangleLab testbed pairs Rigetti's 9-qubit Novera quantum processing unit (QPU) with GPU-accelerated compute nodes, storage, and networking.
NTT invests in OptQC to accelerate optical quantum computing
NTT has invested in Japenese optical quantum computing startup OptQC, expanding a research collaboration launched last year into a broader commercial partnership targeting a fault-tolerant 1-million-qubit optical quantum computer by fiscal 2030. The alliance brings together NTT's expertise in optical networking, communications, and data center infrastructure with OptQC's photonic quantum computing technology. Neither company disclosed the value of the investment.
Quantinuum explores alternative route to fault-tolerant quantum computing
Quantinuum researchers have demonstrated a technique for fault-tolerant quantum computing that could reduce reliance on magic state distillation, one of the most resource-intensive techniques used in many quantum computing architectures. The researchers achieved this by demonstrating a universal set of quantum gates using non-Abelian anyons, a type of quasiparticle that could enable a topological approach to quantum computing.
US moves to strengthen quantum hardware supply chain with isotope breakthrough
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has developed domestic technologies to produce high-purity silicon and germanium precursor materials for quantum devices, a move that comes as the U..S. seeks to strengthen critical supply chains for next-generation computing hardware.
QuiX targets data center deployment with photonic quantum computing platform
QuiX Quantum announced Carina, a photonic quantum computing platform designed for deployment in customer data centers. Developed as part of the German Aerospace Center's Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI), Carina brings together photon generation, multiplexing, cluster-state generation, real-time feed-forward control, and photonic assembly management into a single measurement-based quantum computing stack.
LG U+ proposes latency targets for quantum-safe networks
South Korean telecom operator LG U+ is backing a new effort to develop quality-of-service (QoS) guidance for communications secured using post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD). The proposal, submitted to the International Telecommunication Union’s Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), addresses a practical challenge for telecom operators as they deploy quantum-safe security.
Quantum sensing targets industrial, data center energy optimization
Deep-tech startup xDots unveiled a quantum sensing system designed to capture ultra-precise power consumption data that could help data center operators and industrial facilities identify energy saving opportunities that conventional monitoring systems may miss. The company introduced its xSee device at Quantum Korea 2026 in Seoul, positioning it as the hardware foundation of its xEnergy optimization platform.
Michigan State's diamond defect keeps quantum data alive 1,000x longer using light
Researchers at Michigan State University have demonstrated a nickel-vacancy (NiV⁻) qubit with more than a millisecond of coherence under all-optical control. The study suggests that the diamond-based platform could overcome longstanding trade-offs in spin-photon interfaces for quantum networking.
Atom Computing, Nu Quantum partner on quantum networking infrastructure
Atom Computing and Nu Quantum have announced a strategic partnership to develop networking technologies designed to scale quantum computers beyond the limits of individual quantum processing units (QPUs) and toward utility-scale systems. The companies said they will explore integrating Atom Computing's neutral-atom quantum computers with Nu Quantum's photonic networking hardware. The collaboration aims to connect multiple processors into larger distributed architectures.
Orca deploys quantum computer to major Japanese enterprise customer
Photonic quantum computing company Orca Computing has deployed one of its PT-2 quantum systems to a major enterprise customer in Japan. The installation marks the first commercial deployment of an Orca photonic quantum computer within an enterprise environment.
QuEra, AWS target fault-tolerant quantum computing on Amazon Braket by 2028
QuEra Computing and Amazon Web Services (AWS) say they plan to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer available through Amazon Braket in 2028, setting one of the quantum industry's most concrete timelines to date. QuEra said its planned Libra system is being designed as a Megaquop-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of performing approximately 1 million logical quantum operations.
Light-driven memory breakthrough targets AI power consumption
Researchers at Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) have demonstrated a magnetic memory material that can be rewritten using ultrashort laser pulses instead of electric current. The team says the approach could help reduce the energy consumed by future AI systems and data center infrastructure.
NTT, Mbryonics target optical backbone for emerging 'Internet in Space'
Irish satellite optical communications company Mbryonics is partnering with NTT to develop optical networking technology for space communications, reflecting a broader push to make orbital networks operate more like terrestrial telecom infrastructure. The companies describe their vision as an "Internet in Space," a standardized communications layer that would enable different satellite constellations, orbital transport networks, and terrestrial infrastructure to interoperate more seamlessly.
SpaceX pitches Starlink as telecom infrastructure
SpaceX's IPO filing may be filled with talk of Mars colonization, orbital AI data centers, and humanity among the stars. But beneath Elon Musk's space-age rhetoric lies a more terrestrial reality: Starlink is increasingly becoming a major connectivity and networking business. The filing reveals that SpaceX's Connectivity segment generated $11.4 billion in revenue in 2025, nearly three times the $4.1bn generated by its launch business.
AWS launches Graviton5-powered EC2 instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its Graviton5-powered Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances generally available, positioning the processor as infrastructure for a new generation of AI workloads that place growing demands on CPUs alongside GPUs and other accelerators. First previewed at AWS re:Invent 2025, the new instances are powered by the AWS Graviton5 processor and built on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro System.
Behind the rockets, SpaceX pitches Starlink as telecom infrastructure
SpaceX's IPO filing may be filled with talk of Mars colonization, orbital AI data centers, and humanity among the stars. But beneath Elon Musk's space-age rhetoric lies a more terrestrial reality: Starlink is increasingly becoming a major connectivity and networking business. The filing reveals that SpaceX's Connectivity segment generated $11.4 billion in revenue in 2025, nearly three-times the $4.1 billion generated by its launch business.
AWS adopts random graph network architecture as default cloud fabric
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has detailed a new cloud networking architecture based on random graph theory that it says is now the default fabric for its general-purpose cloud infrastructure worldwide. The architecture, known as Resilient Network Graphs (RNG), replaces traditional hierarchical "fat-tree" network designs with a flatter topology intended to improve resilience, throughput, and efficiency at hyperscale.
AWS adopts random graph network architecture as default cloud fabric
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has detailed a new cloud networking architecture based on random graph theory that it says is now the default fabric for its general-purpose cloud infrastructure worldwide. The architecture, known as Resilient Network Graphs (RNG), replaces traditional hierarchical "fat-tree" network designs with a flatter topology intended to improve resilience, throughput, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Google outlines unified AI networking architecture spanning data centers and WAN
Google has described how it is evolving its networking infrastructure to support AI workloads, bringing together a series of recent technologies into a unified architecture spanning accelerator fabrics, data center networks, and global backbone connectivity.
Qumulo launches Cloud AI Accelerator for distributed AI workloads
Qumulo has launched Cloud AI Accelerator, a data platform that enables enterprises to access distributed datasets across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments in real time. The offering combines Qumulo's Cloud Data Fabric, Cloud Native Qumulo, and NeuralCache technologies to enable AI workloads to access data across clouds, regions, and hybrid environments without replication or staging delays.
Patero and Orilla post-quantum platform targets industrial edge AI security
Patero and Orilla partnered to deliver a scalable quantum-safe platform designed to secure industrial AI deployments at the edge. The initiative comes as organizations increasingly look to protect operational technology and long-lived infrastructure from future quantum threats. The companies said the joint offering combines Orilla’s edge-native industrial AI and DataOps platform with Patero’s post-quantum encryption and secure communications technology.
Why humanoid robots are taking off at airports
Passengers arriving at San José Mineta International Airport’s Terminal B are greeted by a humanoid robot named José. Mounted to a fixed base behind an information desk, José greets travelers and switches to the language they speak, answering questions about flights, baggage and directions. What engineers behind José are really testing is whether an AI system can stay accurate and responsive inside infrastructure built long before anyone imagined it would need to serve a robot.
Microsoft pitches Azure Linux for AI-native infrastructure
Microsoft used the Open Source Summit North America 2026 event to position open-source infrastructure and hardened Linux distributions as foundational components for emerging AI-native and agentic workloads. The company announced the upcoming public preview of Azure Linux 4.0 for Azure Virtual Machines alongside the general availability of Azure Container Linux, its immutable container-optimized operating system for cloud-native environments.
Dell expands AI Factory with focus on enterprise-controlled agentic AI
Dell Technologies is expanding its Dell AI Factory with Nvidia portfolio, positioning enterprise-controlled infrastructure as the foundation for scaling agentic AI workloads from local systems to the data center. New additions to the Dell AI Factory portfolio span agentic AI deployment, data orchestration, rack-scale infrastructure, cooling, governance, and ecosystem integrations.
Ericsson researchers explore hybrid quantum-classical approaches for RAN planning
A team of researchers at Ericsson has found that hybrid quantum-classical computing techniques could improve radio access network (RAN) planning and optimization as mobile networks become more complex and dynamic. Writing in a technical blog post, the researchers argued that existing heuristic-based planning tools are struggling to keep pace with ultra-dense 5G deployments, increasingly dynamic traffic patterns, and the growing complexity expected in future 6G networks.
Zero Latency launches beta for AI inference orchestration platform
Zero Latency (formerly Hyphastructure) launched a closed beta for Zerogrid, a distributed AI inference platform designed to route workloads across edge infrastructure according to latency, data locality, and capacity constraints. The distributed AI infrastructure company said Zerogrid is aimed at enterprise AI deployments where inference workloads increasingly need to satisfy multiple operational requirements simultaneously.
QuantWare raises $178M to scale superconducting quantum processor production
QuantWare co-founders Matt Rijlaarsdam (L) and Alessandro Bruno (R) – QuantWare Dutch quantum hardware company QuantWare raised $178 million in Series B funding to expand production of its superconducting quantum processors and scale its modular VIO quantum processor architecture. The funding round follows the company’s recent announcement of VIO-40K, an architecture designed to support quantum processors with up to 10,000 qubits.
Cisco unveils quantum switch to bridge incompatible systems
Cisco has introduced a prototype quantum switch designed to route and convert quantum information between systems built on different encoding approaches, a step toward more interoperable quantum networks. Most quantum systems can only communicate with others that use the same encoding modality. The “Universal Quantum Switch” aims to address this longstanding limitation.
Kubernetes efficiency is going backwards as AI drives GPU waste
Kubernetes clusters are running far below capacity, and the gap is widening, according to Cast AI’s 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report. The vendor analyzed tens of thousands of clusters across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud to find average CPU utilization at 8%, down from 10% a year earlier. Memory utilization fell from 23% to 20%.
US quantum bill signals shift to deployment as PQC urgency rises
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee has unanimously advanced legislation to reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) through December 2034. The move signals a shift in federal focus from basic research toward real-world deployment, cybersecurity readiness, and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) planning.
Don’t blame your AI model if its voice gives out
For most of the past two years, enterprises have spent enormous resources on a single question: how do you make AI voice models good enough? Speech recognition that stumbled, mispronunciations, error rates too high for production: the problems were obvious, and so seemed the solution. Fix the model, the thinking went. But what if they were solving the wrong problem? A customer opens an app and speaks, asking about a recent order or trying to resolve a problem.
Cloudflare fast-tracks post-quantum roadmap to 2029
Cloudflare brought forward its post-quantum timeline, setting a 2029 deadline to secure its platform against quantum threats, including authentication systems. The move reflects growing concern that advances in quantum computing could arrive sooner than expected, putting widely used cryptographic systems at risk. Cloudflare has deployed post-quantum encryption across much of its network to mitigate so-called “harvest now, decrypt later” threats.
Cambridge researchers develop optical wireless system that halves Wi-Fi energy per bit
University of Cambridge researchers demonstrated a chip-scale optical wireless system capable of delivering aggregate data rates of more than 360 Gb/s while using significantly less energy per bit than conventional Wi-Fi. The work, published in Advanced Photonics Nexus, combines a 5×5 array of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with custom beam-shaping optics to create a compact platform for high-speed indoor wireless links.
Quantum bottleneck shifts from qubits to infrastructure
Infrastructure, not qubits, is emerging as the main constraint on quantum computing’s path to real-world use. The view came from a recent Economist Impact roundtable, where quantum executives and researchers pointed to uptime, networking, and links to classical compute as the next barriers. Panelists from Q-CTRL, Phasecraft, and the U.K. National Quantum Computing Center said the focus is shifting beyond qubit counts toward a broader stack spanning control, calibration, and software.
What quantum means for future networks
Quantum technologies are starting to enter the enterprise network stack, not through futuristic hype, but through practical optimization, security, and connectivity trials already underway. Telecom operators, data center operators, and network researchers are beginning to evaluate how quantum-based capabilities can solve real problems: making networks more efficient, protecting encrypted data, and eventually linking distributed quantum devices.
Quantum’s next bottleneck is the system, not just the qubit
The next phase of quantum computing will be defined less by headline-grabbing processor demos and more by whether the industry can solve a broader systems challenge across hardware, control, and architecture. That was the message from a recent roundtable featuring 2025 Nobel laureate John Martinis, Quantum Machines co-founder and co-CEO Yonatan Cohen, Alice & Bob head of chip design Nicolas Didier, and MIT researcher Fabrizio Berritta.
Quantum security beyond PQC: Networks need more than new algorithms
Quantum computers threaten to decrypt the Public-key algorithms that protect confidential data. For many organizations, securing against the quantum threat has become synonymous with post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and equivalent international bodies, have selected new algorithms, vendors are wiring them into TLS stacks, and security teams are preparing for certificate rotations and compatibility testing.
SoftBank focuses on 6G power savings with lens-based antenna design
SoftBank developed a new base station antenna design aimed at reducing power consumption and simplifying deployment for future 6G networks. The company said its “functional beam shaping lens antenna,” developed with AGC, can cut power consumption by up to one-eighth compared with conventional massive multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems while maintaining similar coverage and performance.
Fermilab tackles quantum control bottleneck with low-latency network
A new network architecture from Fermilab targets a key challenge in scaling quantum computing systems: low-latency, predictable communication across control hardware. The U.S. national laboratory’s XCOM system connects multiple quantum instrumentation control kit (QICK) boards in a mesh network, enabling synchronized operation and deterministic communication between distributed control electronics, according to a recent arXiv paper.
When robots leave the lab, reality pushes back
On a rail manufacturing line in Maryland, a doglike quadruped robot moves slowly alongside newly assembled train cars. Equipped with cameras and lidar, the machine scans for defects and anomalies, capturing images and automatically feeding them into maintenance systems. If the robot detects a problem, it issues a work order and engineers receive alerts on connected tablets. Only a few years ago, the same robot, a Boston Dynamics Spot, was shaking hands with conference attendees as a curiosity.
QuSecure outlines proxy-based path to post-quantum TLS for telecom networks
QuSecure said it helped a tier-one telecommunications operator deploy post-quantum transport layer security (TLS) across its network infrastructure without rewriting legacy applications, offering a potential migration path for telecom providers preparing for quantum-safe encryption. The post-quantum cryptography (PQC) vendor presented the case study at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Huawei pitches Xinghe quantum-secure WAN platform at MWC
Huawei has launched a wide-area networking platform that combines traffic management and encryption, which the company says could help telecom operators prepare for quantum-secure communications. The Xinghe Intelligent Traffic-Encryption Integration Solution made its debut at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona earlier this month. The system includes a built-in quantum key distribution (QKD) board designed to integrate quantum security directly into network equipment.
Goal-oriented networking could reshape how 6G handles data
Researchers at King’s College London are developing a new wireless networking architecture designed to make future 6G systems more efficient by enabling networks to understand and respond to application goals rather than simply transporting data. The project, called GoAgentNet, uses a semantic networking approach, meaning the network focuses on the intent behind data rather than treating all traffic equally.
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