Quantum Hardware and Engineering Breakthroughs

• IBM's Nighthawk r2 hits over 100,000 circuits per second, 25x Heron's throughput
• Japan's Shunkai runs at room temperature, targeting 10,000 qubits by 2031
• Jülich's JION trapped ion computer launched with roughly €21 million in state funding
• MIT's new "arm qubit" architecture appeared in Physical Review Applied
• MIT grew wafer scale, air stable niobium diselenide superconductors under graphene
• Osaka researchers built a faster method for screening quantum color center materials
• AIX Global claims its governed FTQC platform resolved all six Millennium Prize Problems

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Post-Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Security

• IonQ's blueprint for breaking 256 bit elliptic curve signatures needs 19,397 qubits
• RSA-260 is an 862 bit challenge, far short of the 2,048 bit RSA-2048 standard
• NIST's finalized PQC standards make harvest now, decrypt later a present risk
• Google's Willow chip needed five minutes versus 10 septillion years classically
• PQC adoption is being pushed through PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and cloud defaults
• Two executive orders launch a five year national quantum push and federal PQC transition
• Quantum safe security is framed as crypto agility and inventory, not a date to predict

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Quantum Funding, Manufacturing and Ecosystem

• Enterprise quantum spending hit $300 million in 2025, per BCG research
• Quantinuum posted $8 million in Q2 revenue and $120 million plus FY26 guidance
• Quantum Motion closed its second Series C tranche and opened a Maryland lab
• A decade long quantum hardware veteran joined SkyWater to lead Quantum Solutions
• QpiAI opened a Bengaluru factory building chips of up to 128 qubits
• IonQ Italia and Lutech announced a strategic quantum collaboration in Italy

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Quantum Applications and Global Strategy

• IBM partner work spans HSBC bond trading, Vanguard ETFs, and Cleveland Clinic protein sims
• Banks are mapping fixed income portfolios into QAOA and QUBO formulations
• Georgia Tech is helping DARPA verify quantum value by 2033 on a $9.2 million GTRI project
• IBM plans India's first quantum computer at Amaravati's Quantum Valley Tech Park
• EU Parliament talks called for buying early and building €100 million plus quantum firms
• A LEAP 2026 talk urged leaders to look past computing to quantum comms and sensing
• China released the world's first free, downloadable quantum operating system

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Cybersecurity Threats and Resilience

• Seven trends are reshaping cybersecurity in 2026, from AI security to DSPM
• A TVING breach exposed 39.5 million accounts via one stolen developer key
• CISA's 2026 budget fell from $2.9 billion to $2.6 billion amid agency downsizing
• Resilience commentary now separates resistance tooling from true operational resilience
• The EU Cyber Resilience Act makes security by design a leadership obligation
• CrowdStrike and Rubrik both pushed agentic AI to the center of cyber defense
• Researchers spent two weeks failing to weaponize a critical 9.8 CVSS Windows flaw

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Data Centers, Networks and Public-Sector ICT

• Legacy data centers are being modernized by reusing existing power capacity
• The data center rack market is projected to grow near 10% CAGR into the 2030s
• PwC projects $31.6 trillion in global data center capex through 2050
• The ITU's IMT-2030 6G framework could turn networks into physical world sensors
• New government digital service teams are urged to map their ecosystem first
• ICT professionals kept critical public services running through a major outage
• Five academic papers link ICT investment to better container port performance

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Edge Computing and Connectivity

• A decade of co-designed custom silicon underpins one automaker's edge compute strategy
• Voyager Technologies introduced Space Edge for orbital and space domain computing
• Access control modernization now favors convergence over rip and replace
• Ethiopia's AHRI inaugurated a SMART modular data center for health research
• Microchip and SRM Easwari opened a new centre for edge and embedded intelligence

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LEAP 2026 – Saudi Arabia's Global Tech Summit

• LEAP 2026 opened in Riyadh under "Into New Worlds," drawing 1,800+ companies and 200,000+ attendees, with over $15 billion in Day 1 tech investments announced
• Adobe, MCIT, and HUMAIN expanded their partnership to give 27 million+ Saudi citizens and residents free access to Firefly and Express Premium, valued at over $4 billion
• AWS confirmed its first Saudi cloud region for December 2026, alongside a HUMAIN AI Zone reaching up to 50MW of Trainium and NVIDIA capacity by 2028
• AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN's AI infrastructure went live in the Kingdom, with plans to scale from 250MW in 2027 to 1GW by 2030
• Microsoft and HUMAIN expanded their alliance, bundling HUMAIN ONE with Microsoft 365 Copilot and launching a HUMAIN AI PC on Windows in September 2026
• xAI announced its first expansion outside the US would start in Saudi Arabia, beginning at 50MW and scaling toward 500MW

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Thanks to Dave Perez, Zlatko Minev, Marcel Velica, whurley, Reid Hoffman, Chuck Brooks, Prof. Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, Neha S., Aaron Snow, Muhammad Abubaker, Craig A. Linton, Yasha A., Reuben Maher, André Luiz Rodrigues, Aditya Singh, Marcus Hutchins, Gonzalo F., Chelsea Larson-Andrews, Kate Hurr, Jim Dearing, Sam Stanwyck, Rajeshwari Mishra, Isabelle Bousquette, Ryan Harring, Asaf Ashkenazi, Jan Hoffmann, Martin Roetteler, Eddie M., Denise Holt, Sunny Faridi, Kirk Mettler, Keith King, Aung Tun, Adam Firestone, Steve McDowell, Steve Suarez, Bipul Sinha, Jessica Dabbs and Tanya Suarez for contributing insights to this edition.
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