On July 2nd, NATO's Transatlantic Quantum Community (TQC) held its founding conference in Brussels, Belgium. Denmark, serving as the first national chair, hosted the meeting. Last September, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for the development of a dedicated network that would enhance Allied cooperation and harness the benefits of quantum technologies to strengthen deterrence and defence, which led to the birth of the TQC. It is reported that the community's first annual plenary is expected to take place this autumn.

Recently, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) in Singapore, in collaboration with partners, have devised an approach to make efficient use of the qubits of current quantum computers for the ‘vehicle routing problem’. In this work, the team formulated the problem based on real-world transportation scenarios provided by ExxonMobil and formulated it as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation (QUBO) problem. They successfully solved problems with 128- and 3964-route problems using just 8 and 13 qubits respectively.

The Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė has signed the European Declaration on Quantum Technologies. The Declaration, which has already been signed by 24 EU Member States, agrees to coordinate European, national and regional research and development programmes and initiatives in the field of quantum technologies.

Wave Photonics has received £4.5M ($5.8M) to develop on-chip photonics designs for quantum technologies, sensors, and datacentre applications. The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund and Cambridge Enterprise led the round, with participation from the Redstone and QAI Ventures’ Quantum Fund, Kyra Ventures, and Deep Tech Labs. The investment round was complemented by non-dilutive funding via EIC and Innovate UK grants, taking the company’s total funding to date to £5.4M ($6.9M).