2026 Becomes the Year of Quantum Security 🔐 YQS2026 2026 is being framed as the Year of Quantum Security: #YQS2026 After a year in which quantum moved decisively into the mainstream with International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, the next phase is already taking shape. The focus is shifting from awareness to execution, and security is emerging as the defining challenge. An outlook on the year ahead explores how security for quantum and security from quantum will shape how quantum technologies are deployed, protected, and trusted globally. The Year of Quantum Security officially launches January 12th in Washington, D.C., with participation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), alongside industry leaders and ecosystem partners. Registration is still open for those who want to be part of the opening conversation. Read the article. Join the launch. Be part of the year that sets the security agenda for the quantum era. Learn more: QuantumSecurity2026.org

German Government Selects QUDORA-Led Consortium For €122 Million Project thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

SK Telecom and KISTI Develop Digital Twin for QKD Network Testing thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

Microsoft Quantum, QOLAB Propose Higher Bar For ‘Scalable’ Logical Qubits thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

- @infleqtion Achieves 30 Entangled Logical Qubits on Its Sqale Quantum Computer thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

IonQ Bringing QPU to The NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

Global Study Finds Quantum Industry Dependent on Cross-Border Supply Chains thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

The Global Quantum + AI Challenge Just Closed Phase 1 With More Than 1,000 Entrants. Here Is What Comes Next. thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

EigenQ Secures $45 Million Financing Ahead of Planned Nasdaq Listing thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

DOE Launches $215 Million Quantum Genesis Q Competition thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

With over 120k YouTube subscribers and 3M views later, The Quantum Insider is proud to partner with @KaiQuantumKid 💥 If you haven't come across the channel yet, it's run by Katia Moskvitch, and her 10-year-old son Kai, and it's built on one simple rule: explain it like I'm 10. That rule has held up pretty well, even with guests like Peter Shor, John Preskill, and Nobel laureate Steven Chu. We're teaming up to help tell more of the research and application stories that make this field genuinely interesting, not just to physicists, but to anyone curious about where this tech is headed. In the most recent episode, Kai tackles quantum chess. The premise is simple to say and hard to wrap your head around: you win by putting your own king into superposition. He sits down with Tamás Varga, to play it, after checking out a Roblox-style quantum game with James Wootton (MOTH Quantum) and Natasha Skult (MiTale). Watch the full episode here: piped.video/watch?v=7RCtYQ_B… #TheQuantumKid

The jury now reviewing quantum + AI submissions includes people who helped invent the field. Meet Professor Ignacio Cirac, Director of the Theory Division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. Ignacio is one of the founding figures of quantum computing. In 1995, together with Peter Zoller, he proposed one of the first practical architectures for a quantum computer using trapped ions, a milestone that helped launch the field. His decades of work on entanglement, quantum simulation, and tensor networks have earned him the Wolf Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, and the Max Planck Medal, among other honors. Welcome to the jury, Ignacio. #GlobalQuantumAIChallenge

How two research teams and a London based quantum hardware company are betting nanoscale gold can crack the stability-scalability problem that has stalled every other qubit platform. @DeltaGoldTech is running two parallel research programmes, with Penn State University and the University of Toronto, betting that nanoscale gold can crack the trade-off between qubit stability and scalability that has constrained every existing hardware platform. thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

Last month, Texas Quantum Partners and Samara broke ground on Occam Foundry, a quantum technology campus in southeastern Travis County, Texas. Matthew Cimaglia and Alex Challans were on-site exploring where the campus will take shape. The idea: put quantum companies, university teams, working quantum systems, and fabrication/prototyping capabilities in one place. Texas already fabricates chips at scale. This is about building the capability layer around that, so quantum hardware can go from idea to working system without leaving the state. First phase covers part of the ~16.5 acres, with room to grow. Discussions are underway with anchor tenants and research partners, and the project is expected to support hundreds of jobs in Texas's advanced-tech economy. So where does that leave the US in the global quantum race? We break it down in the video below. 👇

Anderon Finalizes $1 Billion CHIPS Award for Quantum Wafer Manufacturing thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

BioInnovation Institute Selects 17 European Startups for Funding and Support thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

Beijing Launches Program to Connect Quantum Companies With Industrial Customers thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…

The Global Quantum + AI Challenge Phase 1 is closed, and what an incredible response. 1,108 registrations. 380 applications. 50+ countries. 💥 Huge thanks to our challenge partners, Airbus, @ClevelandClinic , @HSBC , @EON_SE_en and @VWGroup for setting problems worth solving, and our supporting partners for helping this reach quantum builders everywhere. Phase 2 is next, where @awscloud , @ClassiqTech , SC Quantum and MITRE take action. #GlobalQuantumAIChallenge

Earlier this week, The Quantum Insider joined quantum leaders from across the ecosystem at the Faculty Club in Toronto. Canada's quantum story didn't start with the current wave of hype. Researchers, institutions, and government here have been building this field for decades, well before most of the companies we cover existed. The room brought together the people actually shaping where Canadian quantum goes next: researchers and builders, policymakers, program leads, and the people who control the budgets. Thanks to the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (@CQIQC_Toronto ) at the @UofT for partnering with us on this, and to Anna Dyring and Dvira Segal for making it happen.

⏳ Just a few hours left to submit to the Global Quantum + AI Challenge. The numbers speak for themselves: 1,000+ registrations and 250+ submissions from innovators across the globe, all competing for a $200,000 prize pool across five enterprise challenge tracks with Airbus, Cleveland Clinic, E.ON, HSBC, and Volkswagen Group. Somewhere in that mix is the winner. It could be you, but only if your submission is in it. Your work will be judged by a jury that includes Seth Lloyd, Ignacio Cirac, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Jonathan Legh-Smith MBE and more yet to be announced. (Pictured below) Phase 1 closes tonight. 👉 Submit here: quantumai.thequantuminsider.… #QuantumComputing #GlobalQuantumAIChallenge #AI

Oxford Physicists Help Uncover ‘Spooky’ Quantum Effect in The Large Hadron Collider thequantuminsider.com/2026/0…