Quantum developments. Board-level consequences. Evidence-based quantum insights for boards, policy leaders, and investors.
Board-ready Signature Reports and Briefs on where quantum governance and the post-quantum transition are heading, with the lead time to act. Two Evidence Registers on how far quantum medicine and quantum defense have really come, with a Technology Readiness Level on every novel capability.
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DARPA Moves IBM, IonQ, Atom Computing and Diraq Into Stage C of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative on 7 October 2026: What Government Testing of Their Hardware Must Show by 2033
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency moved four companies into Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative: Atom Computing with neutral-atom arrays, Diraq with silicon CMOS spin qubits, IBM with modular…
Prof. Mauritz Kop Brings Quantum Governance to TUM's Public Interest Technology Course With Urs Gasser and Fabienne Marco
GAO's 2024-2025 Post-Quantum Audit of 24 Federal Agencies, Released 6 October 2026, Finds None Met All Inventory, Funding and Testing Practices Ahead of OMB's 22 October Migration Plans
Why Germany's BSI Advises Against Classic McEliece for New Systems, Four Months After ISO Standardized It
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Board reports
Signature Reports and Briefs for boards facing the post-quantum transition.
See the reportsQuantum Medicine
The Monitor’s daily insights on quantum sensing, imaging, and drug discovery.
The Medicine MonitorQuantum Defense
The Monitor’s daily insights on quantum security, communications, and sensing.
The Defense MonitorQuantum technology in medicine
Quantum medicine is moving from lab bench to bedside. The Quentir Medicine Monitor follows that move every day and gives each result its Technology Readiness Level (TRL). It is written for investors, research leaders, and hospital boards who want to know how far quantum sensing, imaging, simulation, and drug discovery have come on their way to the clinic.
Researchers in Taiwan, Korea and at Brookhaven Test a Quantum Attention Model on Merck's Alzheimer's Drug Verubecestat: arXiv 2610.04588, 3 October 2026
Merck stopped its large Alzheimer's trial of verubecestat early, a pill designed to block the enzyme BACE1, which helps produce the amyloid found in the brains of patients. The drug had been carefully refined molecule by…
QST's Heat-Etched Nanodiamond Quantum Sensors Cut Particle-to-Particle Variation to a Quarter and Raise the Signal 55 Percent: ACS Nanoscience Au, 7 October 2026
Post-Quantum Authentication for Internet of Medical Things Devices: Sutradhar and Venkatesh's Lattice-Signature Prototype of 3 October 2026 and the Gap to NIST FIPS 204
Ubikare, Multiverse Computing and Vicomtech's Q-CLINIC Receives the Ennova Health AI Prize, Announced 2 October 2026: Quantum-Inspired Language Models for Coding Clinical Notes in SNOMED CT and LOINC
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The Crypto-Agility Compliance Baseline
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For boards, general counsel, and CISOs who must scope the post-quantum migration to what actually binds, and write it into their contracts.
- the federal calendar read from the primary text, from the agency plans due October 22, 2026 to the 2030 and 2031 gates;
- the CBOM as a contract deliverable, ahead of the March 2027 minimum elements;
- a Deep Dive on five contractual gaps to close at renewal, from crypto-agility covenants to the “quantum-safe” warranty.
What the Minutes Show
$1,500$900
For boards, committee chairs, and general counsel who want their own minutes to show how they oversee cryptographic risk.
- why harvest-now-decrypt-later makes this quarter’s board record the evidence that will be read later;
- the five-artifact evidence pack, each artifact with a test for what a good version looks like;
- seven board oversight questions, each with what a good answer looks like.
Quentir Radar
$59
For leaders who want the week in quantum, AI, and post-quantum governance read for them.
- the week across five topics in a calm ten-minute read: governance, the PQC transition, supply chains, quantum-AI, and board oversight;
- developments from Washington, Brussels, and the Asia-Pacific in one place;
- the deadlines and decision points that matter for your board.
Talks and Convenings
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Quantum Innovation 2026, Nagoya: Prof. Mauritz Kop With Elham Kashefi, Dorit Aharonov, and Google Quantum AI
Conference
The Inaugural ACM PQQS 2026: The Race to Quantum First, With Dan Boneh, Bart Preneel, and Ryan Babbush
Conference
CIGI Quantum Nexus: A Framework for Canadian Strategic Advantage, Led by Prof. Mauritz Kop
Workshop
Co-Opting AI: Quantum, on Quantum, AI, and Geopolitics With Paul Davies and Shohini Ghose
PanelQuantum defense and security
Quantum security is becoming a board matter. The Quentir Defense Monitor follows it every day, from cybersecurity and dual-use technology to secure communications and the quantum-AI convergence, and gives each capability its TRL. It is written for security leaders, policy staff, and defense-industry boards who follow quantum security and sensing from lab to battlefield.
Two Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks in Nature, 7 October 2026: TU Wien and PTB Run One Unattended for a Day, a Tsinghua-Led Team Reaches 5e-13 Instability, for GNSS-Denied Timing, TRL 4
Nature published two independent thorium-229 nuclear clocks on October 7, 2026: a TU Wien and PTB clock that ran unattended for a day and measured within-run instability in the low 1e-14 range, and a Tsinghua-led clock at…
Quantum Brilliance and Oak Ridge Ran Fragment-Based Quantum Chemistry Across Three Room-Temperature Diamond QPUs, arXiv 6 October 2026: 93.6 Percent Parallel Efficiency on Helium Clusters, TRL 3
Université de Sherbrooke Plans Five Drone Surveillance Tours Over Quebec With Wildfire Risk Maps and a Neutral-Atom Quantum Heuristic, arXiv 2 October 2026: 31 Valid Plans on an Emulator, TRL 3
Airbus Quantum-Secure Tactical Communications Trial in Malta, 10 and 11 September 2026: Agnet, Telsy QKD, Stormshield Encryptors and Merqury Key Management, and What a Program Office Still Needs
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Quantum intel, translated for your board
Every day, Quentir translates the global flow of quantum innovation data into board-ready intel. We screen and select thousands of research papers from across the globe to give you the absolute frontier. Each identified medical and defense innovation carries a Technology Readiness Level (TRL), so your teams can compare technical maturity and decide what to build on, what to integrate into your own products, and where to invest.
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From basic research to proof of concept. Spot emerging technologies early and track their progress.
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From laboratory validation to prototypes in a relevant environment. Candidates to test against your own products.
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From operational prototypes to proven systems. The stage to plan builds, procurement, and investment.
From the Archive
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Science: A New Golden Age: The White House, Quantum, and the Genesis Mission
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NATO's Quantum Technology Roadmap, Published 29 September 2026: QUESTOR Sea Trials for GNSS-Denied PNT in 2026 and 2027 and a Quantum Zero Beacon Pilot Between Brussels and Mons by Q4 2027
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Mainz, Stuttgart, Freiburg and Q.ANT Recorded a Human Magnetocardiogram With Room-Temperature Diamond Sensors: What the 16 September 2026 Science Advances Paper Shows
Medicine
The Imported Key Travels in a Quantum-Resistant Envelope
DefenseThe Race to Quantum First
The race to quantum first is the effort to field strategically significant quantum capabilities across cryptography, AI, networks, sensing, and supply chains by 2030, as Mauritz Kop and Joseph Federici set out in Before Q-Day: The Race to Quantum First (War on the Rocks, July 20, 2026). Quentir works to build quantum awareness, literacy, and intuition among the people who decide how quantum technology is used. We explain each development in plain language and give it a Technology Readiness Level, so that boards, policy leaders, and investors can judge for themselves how close it is to real use.
Boards, general counsel, and strategy teams are asked to take positions on a legal-technical frontier that moves monthly: transparency duties that already bind, migration calendars that converge on 2030 and 2035, and hardware estimates that compressed a decade into years. Our coverage addresses the questions that matter most: what these technologies mean, strategically, for American values, democracy, and liberty. A Signature Report or Brief answers these domestic and global affairs questions in front of your board, as the basis for informed decisions in a fast-paced, deeply interdisciplinary domain.
Before Q-Day: The Race to Quantum First, by Mauritz Kop and Joseph Federici
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Vying for Quantum Supremacy: U.S.-China Competition in Quantum Technologies, by Joseph Federici (USCC)
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Scholarship behind the analysis.
Quentir builds on a body of published scholarship in responsible quantum innovation, governance, biomedical ethics, geopolitics, and intellectual property strategy.
Mauritz Kop
Founder of Quentir and of the Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology; its Founding Director from 2023 to 2025. Senior Fellow and Principal Investigator at CIGI.
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