D-Wave Quantum Inc. , a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, announced that Jagrup Brar, B.C. Minister of State for Trade and MLA for Surrey-Fleetwood, and Janet Routledge, B.C. Parliamentary Secretary for Labour and MLA for Burnaby North, toured the company’s Burnaby-based Quantum Engineering Center of Excellence yesterday.

Quantum Machines (QM), the leading provider of processor-based quantum controllers, announced the opening of the Israeli Quantum Computing Center (IQCC), a world-class research facility that will serve the quantum computing industry and academic community in Israel and around the world. The center was built with the financial backing and support of the Israel Innovation Authority and is located at Tel Aviv University.

IonQ, a global leader in quantum computing, today announced its participation in “Quantum Korea 2024,” being held from June 25 to 27 at the KINTEX exhibition center in Ilsan. This prestigious event will feature numerous renowned experts from the global quantum computing industry.

Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. , the Industrial Generative AI company, today announced that it has joined the KT Consortium, a collaborative body connecting global industry leaders in chemical and biochemical manufacturing with the state-of-the-art technologies emerging from academia.

SandboxAQ and CQE will collaborate on quantum sensing efforts, particularly at the University of Chicago-based National Science Foundation Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Quantum sensing for Biophysics and Bioengineering (QuBBE).

The University of Waterloo has officially opened its state-of-the-art Inert Atmosphere Fabrication Lab (IAFL) as part of the Quantum-Nano Fabrication and Characterization Facility (QNFCF).

To support the expansion of its quantum research activities, The School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London, has installed a dilution refrigerator from Oxford Instruments NanoScience. Since installing the ProteoxMX, the team can perform more experiments at millikelvin temperatures, enabling the research necessary for the development of quantum computing architectures.

Delft-based Orange Quantum Systems, a quantum technology company, secured fresh funding from InnovationQuarter, a firm that helps entrepreneurs in South Holland to develop and market technological innovations. Dutch-based InnovationQuarter joins previous investors Cottonwood Technology Fund and QDNL Participations.

The QSE Center has distributed funding from the ETH-Domain Quantum-Technology Network (QTNet) to 11 quantum researchers at EPFL for procuring quantum hardware to develop and employ applicatons of quantum technologies.