Trump signs executive orders on quantum technology
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In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in midair, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero.
The White House has issued an executive order aiming to unify and accelerate U.S. development of quantum technologies, including space systems that could enable next-generation navigation, sensing and secure communications.
For years, the threat of quantum computing lived comfortably in the category of “interesting but distant,” but that comfort is gone.
In August 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology did something it had been working toward for eight years: it finalized the first three cryptographic standards built to withstand attacks from quantum computers. By spring 2026, the federal ...
Quantinuum has unveiled a third-generation quantum computer that could be easier to scale up than rival approaches. The US- and UK-based company Quantinuum today unveiled Helios, its third-generation quantum computer, which includes expanded computing ...
To improve quantum computers, Zhenjie Yan wants to understand how to efficiently shuttle quantum information.
Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they manipulate to function, which can stop calculations dead in their tracks. But scientists at the US-based firm Atom Computing have ...
After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front of a quantum computer built out of atoms and light at ...
Multiple physical qubits are used to correct errors and create a single logical qubit. Credit: atDigit/Alamy Stock Photo Decades after the idea for a quantum computer was first floated, progress in the field can feel like the adage about fusion energy ...
Quantum Computing Inc. has mitigated its near-term existential risk by financing operations through September 2025. Learn why QUBT stock is a buy.
A new federal initiative to build a quantum supercomputer could transform everything from encryption to drug discovery, creating the next wave of winners and losers.
