• Q-CTRL bolstered by $88 million investment (Forbes reporting; SMH reporting; press release), while Q-CTRL's founder and EQUS chief investigator Michael Biercuk made the Australian's Top 100 Innovator's list.
• Silicon Quantum Computing is readying its first product for launch, with founder Michelle Simmons tipping SQC in the 'quantum race' at SXSW Sydney
• CQC2T announces the successful entanglement of two electrons bound to two different phosphorus atoms across a single silicon chip
• Quantum Brilliance have been busy, snapping up a partnership to build a mobile quantum computer and announcing a collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Lab
• Diraq gets their qubits in synch in research published in Nature Communications led by UNSW PhD student Ingvild Hansen (press release, blog)
• The Queensland government has awarded $10 million to the Quantum Decarbonisation Alliance - a consortium including the CSIRO, the University of Queensland, and many others - to investigate the potential of quantum technology to curtail and reverse carbon pollution
• The Centre of Excellence for Biotechnology (QUBIC) has received $4.7 million from the Queensland government to develop quantum technologies for the upcoming Brisbane Olympic Games, including catching cheats with quantum sensors.
• EQuS researchers are partnering with NASA to bring a space-age heart monitoring technology down to Earth - using quantum sensing to monitor heart health safely and non-invasively.
• Expert commentary on the PsiQuantum partnership in The Conversation and latest coverage on the ABC.
• Infleqtion Australia are expanding their quantum software capability (SuperStaq) in the growing Victorian and Asia-Pacific markets. They were awarded Phase II of the Australian Army’s Quantum Technology Challenge (QTC)
• Andrew Horsley from Quantum Brilliance wins Prime Minister’s New Innovator Prize.

Please let us know what you’re planning for Quantum Year, and look out for information soon about briefings in Perth, Brisbane, and at the AIP Congress in Melbourne.

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