Israel's Prime Minister's Office National AI Directorate and Finance Ministry jointly announced a series of national AI projects, including 'Project Nexus,' a tender for a national quantum computing platform, and requests for information on physical AI infrastructure and testing centers.
At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Shanghai Electric showcased its embodied intelligence robot matrix, including the SUYUAN bipedal humanoid robot with 41 degrees of freedom, alongside 51 industrial AI models and agents and an AI-native smart factory architecture.
IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories, a private research lab jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors, adding silicon-spin qubit expertise as a second hardware track alongside its existing superconducting quantum computing technology.
Quantum security startup Project Eleven has funded a proof that allows wallet owners to reclaim Bitcoin after quantum computers can forge signatures, using the wallet's key-derivation path as ownership proof. The tool runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced a 370 trillion yen ($2.3 trillion) public-private investment plan spanning 17 sectors including AI, semiconductors, quantum technology, defense, space, and nuclear fusion through fiscal year 2040. The announcement drove Japan's Nikkei 225 to cross 72,000 for the first time.
IBM disclosed plans to invest over $10 billion in quantum computing over five years, aiming to build the first large-scale quantum computer capable of running complex calculations reliably and without errors by 2029.
Cleveland Clinic, Japan's RIKEN research institute, and IBM achieved a breakthrough by simulating the largest protein to date using quantum computing technology, marking a significant advance in computational biology.
NVIDIA has released Ising, the first open quantum AI model family designed for hybrid quantum-classical computing systems, marking a significant step in making quantum computing more accessible for practical applications.
Google publishes a call to action urging governments and industry to prepare for the end of current encryption standards, warning that a cryptographically relevant quantum computer is “not forever a decade away” and that the transition to post-quantum cryptography must begin now.
