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Seventy-one percent of responding institutions had neither conducted nor planned a test of post-quantum cryptography. The HKMA framed its 2030 goal as an aim for the whole sector and listed four first steps banks can take now.
PsiQuantum signed a $125 million expanded DARPA agreement in July. Like Microsoft, it entered the final stage of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative through US2QC, a related program, without passing through the initiative's first two stages.
Managing Director Chia Der Jiun said MAS will issue supervisory expectations later in 2026, with progressive timelines for cryptographic inventories, migration priorities, and the capabilities to migrate. MAS published a consultation paper with proposed timelines on November 6.
Eighty-seven percent of the 1,001 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers polled for DigiCert reported post-quantum plans or work under way. Propeller Insights ran the survey in May, before a U.S. executive order set federal migration deadlines.
A 70-million-transistor chip at 4 kelvin generated every control pulse for HRL's silicon spin qubits. The team used up to seven of its 18 physical qubits, on codes that correct one type of error or only detect errors.
IBM and University of Chicago researchers claimed advantage with a certified fidelity bound on 97 physical qubits. Qedma and Algorithmiq reported regimes in which the classical methods they tested became unreliable or disagreed. None of the preprints is peer reviewed.
EY said the machine will handle sensitive work such as fraud detection and risk management. Its chief innovation officer said the immediate value is not in replacing classical computing and named post-quantum readiness as the near-term focus.
The IESG asked for final comments on draft-ietf-tls-mlkem, an Informational specification for ML-KEM-only key agreement in TLS 1.3. Its three key-exchange groups are marked in the registry as items the IETF has not evaluated.
The Leipzig company counts an NV center and its nearby nuclear spins as qubits and groups them in cores of eight or 16. It cited no paper, benchmark, or independent test for the new machines.
Twenty authors tied quantum chemistry and topological data analysis to Helios, Sol in 2027, Apollo in 2029, and Lumos in the 2030s. They called the roadmap an assumption-driven envelope, not a deterministic forecast.
