In 1996, a 26-year-old physics student from the University of Science and Technology of China arrived in Vienna to begin doctoral work under Anton Zeilinger, one of the world's leading quantum expe...
In April 2025, a team from the University of Science and Technology of China published what might be the most consequential quantum sensing result of the decade — and almost nobody in the Western s...
On April 26, 2016, Xi Jinping walked into USTC's Advanced Technology Research Institute in Hefei and listened to a physicist named Pan Jianwei describe the future of quantum information science. Wh...
In June 2023, a Zhejiang University graduate named Chen Jie sat for an interview with a Chinese tech columnist. Chen had founded a cryogenics company called CSSC Pengli in Nanjing thirteen years ea...
9 Apr 2026 - Researchers at Q-CTRL, a quantum infrastructure software company headquartered in Los Angeles and Sydney, have published a paper introducing Q-NEXUS, a heterogeneous quantum computing ...
On April 7, 2026, Anthropic disclosed Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model that autonomously discovers and exploits zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. As I deta...
7 Apr 2026 – Cloudflare, the infrastructure company that handles a significant share of global internet traffic, today announced it is accelerating its post-quantum cryptography roadmap and targeti...
7 Apr 2026 – Cloudflare, the infrastructure company that handles a significant share of global internet traffic, today announced it is accelerating its post-quantum cryptography roadmap and targeti...
In October 2023, I was on a call with a European defense ministry official who wanted to discuss quantum threats. Within the first five minutes, he cited it. "China has invested $15.3 billion in qu...
On September 29, 2017, a video call connected two men separated by 7,600 kilometres. On one end, in Beijing, Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On the other, in Vienna, Anton...