UBC Blusson Quantum Matter Institute has become an affiliate of Quantum Industry Canada (QIC), a national consortium dedicated to advancing the country’s quantum technology sector.

Zapata Computing, Inc. (“Zapata AI”), the Industrial Generative AI software company developing solutions to solve enterprises’ most difficult, industrial-scale problems, announced today that it has completed its business combination with Andretti Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: WNNR), a special purpose acquisition company. The combined company, which was renamed Zapata Computing Holdings Inc., will operate as Zapata AI and its common stock and warrants will begin trading on April 1, 2024 on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols “ZPTA” and “ZPTAW”, respectively.

Southampton has been awarded millions of pounds to launch two research centres that will work to develop the future of quantum computing and boost UK defence expertise.

Andretti Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, today announced that, upon the consummation of its previously announced proposed business combination with Zapata Computing, Inc. (“Zapata AI”), an industrial generative AI company, the combined entity is expected to list on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”).

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), a leader in the quantum computing industry, today announced early results from its work with Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) – a German-based research center for fundamental science – to run combinatorial optimization problems on IonQ Aria. The results demonstrate quantum computing’s potential as a more effective solution than traditional classical computing when tackling equations with multiple variables in a dense environment, such as a bustling airport.

The Quebec Digital and Quantum Innovation Platform (PINQ²) and the Quantum Algorithms Institute (QAI) based in British Columbia proudly announce an innovative partnership that will take advantage of the computing capabilities of the IBM computer Quantum System One located at IBM Bromont in Quebec.