Quantum News and Commentary | Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: I was in the UK last week, and although I sent out a newsletter before I left, there’s quite a bit to catch up on today. You might need a coffee and a refill to read it…
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Quantum News and Commentary | Friday, June 20, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m heading back to the UK this weekend for meetings in Cambridge and London. In particular, I’m attending the first meeting of the Quantum Datacenter Alliance on Thursday, June 26, at the Battersea Power Station, London. The…
Quantum News and Commentary | Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: I was tempted to call this week’s newsletter “Jensen’s Corner” since three of the first articles I added involved NVIDIA. I didn’t include anything about the latest inflection point claim since I’ve used up my allotment for…
Quantum News and Commentary | Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: The quantum world is on fire this week with acquisitions, roadmaps, and the adoption of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). I’ve included several curated links, as usual, but I’ve limited myself to a reasonable number of them. My goal…
Quantum News and Commentary | Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: This major quantum financial news this last week was Infleqtion raising $100 million in its Series C funding round. Congratulations to CEO Matt Kinsella and my friends and former colleagues at the company! Speaking of investments, I’ve…
Quantum News and Commentary | Monday, May 26, 2025
“I promised you a miracle. Oh, belief is a beauty thing.” – Simple Minds Today’s Brief Commentary: The above image is an example of a “hockey stick graph.” Progress is going well and consistently; then, BANG, some metric shoots up…
Quantum News and Commentary | Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m back from London and the Economist Impact 4th Annual Commercialising Quantum conference. I also took a two-day mini-holiday in Liverpool to get my fill of Beatles lore and spend a lot of time on the waterfront….
Quantum News and Commentary | Friday, May 16, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’ve been traveling in the UK this week to attend and speak at the Economist Impact 4th annual Commercialising Quantum Global 2025 conference in London. It was a great event as usual, with roughly 25% of the…
Sutor Group Earnings Brief: Rigetti Computing Announces Financial Results for Q1 2025
What Happened? On Monday, May 12, 2025, Rigetti Computing announced its financial results for the Q1 2025 quarter ending March 31, 2025. See its press release for the full details. It wasn’t pretty, but maybe it doesn’t need to be…
Sutor Group Earnings Brief: D-Wave Quantum Announces Financial Results for Q1 2025
What Happened? On Thursday, May 8, 2025, D-Wave Quantum announced its financial results for the Q1 2025 quarter ending March 31, 2025. See its press release for the full details. The Numbers By almost any measurement, D-Wave had an excellent…
Sutor Group Earnings Brief: IonQ Announces Financial Results for Q1 2025
What Happened? On Wednesday, May 7, 2025, IonQ announced its financial results for the Q1 2025 quarter ending March 31, 2025. See its press release for the full details. This was the first quarter under new CEO Niccolo De Masi,…
Quantum News and Commentary | Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today’s photo above is from the Quantum.Tech USA 2024 event in Washington, DC, in April. Thanks to the organizers for the image. Honestly, I thought I was smiling the whole time. It’s been a busy quantum spring…
Upcoming Quantum Company Earnings Calls | Wednesday, April 30, 2025
It’s that time again for quarterly earnings. Here’s the schedule and some background. Three of the four small public quantum computing companies have announced their earnings and financial results calls for the first quarter of 2025. The online events are…
Quantum News and Commentary | Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m going to start today’s commentary with a quick thought I posted on LinkedIn: We don’t have a quantum computing workforce shortage. We have too many expert and talented people spread out over too many companies. I’ve…
Dr. Bob Sutor Will Speak at the 4th annual Economist Commercialising Quantum Global 2025, May 13th–14th 2025 in London
The quantum technologies jigsaw puzzle: making sure we have all the pieces When many people hear “quantum,” they think of quantum computing, but arguably, quantum sensing, networking, and communications will reach maturity and practical use sooner, and there are dependencies…
Quantum and Finance Special Edition | Thursday, April 24, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: This is a special issue of the newsletter in that instead of news articles and research papers, I’ve included several links that give the current state of quantum computing for finance. If you do a web search…
Quantum News and Commentary – Monday, April 21, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: At the beginning of my talk at Quantum.Tech DC last week, I showed the above image as the bridge that quantum computing providers are trying to build and cross to give us Practical Quantum Advantage. I define…
Quantum News and Commentary – Thursday, April 17, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: Inspired by a discussion with a representative from Toshiba at the Quantum.Tech DC event this week, my links and comments today are related to annealing and optimization. In the quantum space, D-Wave is perhaps the best known…
Quantum News and Commentary – Monday, April 14, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today’s first link in the post-quantum cryptography section is about OpenSSH adopting one of the NIST PQC standards. OpenSSH is a widely adopted open-source implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, offering secure solutions for remote access,…
Quantum News and Commentary – Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Today’s Brief Commentary: Prompted by a LinkedIn post by David Ryan and then my comment (and his response), today, I address the topic of a media or press kit for your website. Such a kit is a one-stop page that…