Australia and the G7 countries have recently signed a significant agreement to establish important standards and benchmarks for the rapidly developing field of quantum technologies. Known as an “unprecedented agreement,” this endeavor aims to coordinate efforts in quantum technology benchmarks.

The fragmentation of EU programmes needs to be reduced to help companies scale up. The JRC policy report “Future Directions for Quantum Technology in Europe” provides background data that informed the EU Quantum Strategy unveiled recently.

A consortium of university, industry and public actors equips Geneva with its first quantum communication network.On the occasion of the Swiss Quantum Industry Day, a consortium comprising the University of Geneva (UNIGE), CERN, HEPIA, ID Quantique, Rolex and the Cantonal Office for Information Systems and Digital Technology (OCSIN) announced the launch of a Geneva-based quantum network, the Geneva Quantum Network (GQN). Inaugurated in the presence of State Councillor Delphine Bachmann, this new infrastructure will enable large-scale quantum physics experiments to be conducted, promote collaboration in quantum technologies and highlight their potential through education and awareness-raising. It will strengthen Geneva’s expertise in this field, which is already internationally recognised.

Focusing on AI quantum and quantum intelligence, a forum drew experts from home and abroad to discuss pressing scientific challenges and emerging opportunities in the field of quantum artificial intelligence, as well as to explore future industrial applications in Shanghai's Zhangjiang Science City on Sunday.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics is announced in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct 7, 2025. Three US-based scientists, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Security And cryptoGrAphic (SAGA) mission has entered the system definition and preliminary design phase (Phase B2), marking the beginning of the development of the first quantum key sharing mission designed for European governments. A world leading aerospace consortium led by Thales Alenia Space has won a €50 million contract to design the mission.

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is proud to announce the launch of Quantum Communication Testbed (QuCT NL) a state‑of‑the‑art facility designed to accelerate research, innovation, and deployment of quantum-safe communication technologies.

Dr. Alessandro Curioni, director of IBM Research at Zurich, has warned that sufficiently powerful quantum computers, potentially before the end of the decade, could breach current cryptographic technology, exposing sensitive data including healthcare and financial information, and enabling digital forgery. This event, termed ‘Q-Day’, signifies the moment quantum computers can crack cryptographic keys – complex codes securing data access – with implications for personal banking, financial systems, and national security. Significant investment in quantum computing is currently concentrated in the United States and China, with the potential for the first cryptographically-capable quantum computer originating from any nation investing sufficiently in its development.

Quantum computing poses a serious threat to classical cryptographic algorithms based on computational complexity. Quantum key distribution (QKD), utilizing the principles of quantum mechanics, enables secure key exchange and has been proven to be an essential technology to resist the threat of quantum computing. China attaches great importance to the construction of QKD network to deal with this threat. In 2020, China established an integrated space-to-ground quantum communication network, which includes 32 backbone nodes and 4 metropolitan networks.