A joint hearing of two U.S. House Homeland Security subcommittees has issued a stark warning: advances in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cloud infrastructure are rapidly outpacing the nation’s cyber defenses.

India has taken a decisive step in the global compute race by activating the second phase of its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM 2.0) at the Supercomputing India 2025 summit hosted at MIT–MAHE, Bengaluru. Branded around the theme of converging high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies, the initiative aims to move India from being a consumer of imported supercomputers to a designer and manufacturer of its own end-to-end compute stack.​

China has announced a quantum photonic chip that its developers claim can accelerate certain AI and complex computing workloads by up to 1,000 times compared with today’s leading Nvidia GPUs, intensifying the global race to build next‑generation computing hardware.

Niccolo De Masi, the chairman and CEO of IonQ, gave an interview with CNBC Television discussing recent achievements and outlook in quantum computing. De Masi reported a 37% revenue beat for Q3, raising annual guidance to $110 million, and highlighted IonQ's significant capital raises totaling $3.5 billion this year, $2 billion of which occurred in the last six weeks.

In a landmark achievement announced this October, Google’s Willow quantum chip has demonstrated verifiable quantum advantage, setting a new precedent in both computational power and fundamental physics.

Australia’s quantum technology sector is rapidly advancing, fueled by Silicon Quantum Computing’s latest innovation a quantum-AI processor dubbed "watermelon."

D-Wave Quantum Inc. stands at the forefront of quantum computing technology with its innovative Advantage2™ system, the most advanced annealing quantum computer designed for real-world business and scientific applications.