QUANTUM COMPUTING
QUANDELA PARTNERS WITH SAFRAN
The French quantum dynamic start up QUANDELA is partnering with SAFRAN to develop algorithms for modeling airflow in aircraft engines. The result will be faster engine development cycles and less reliance on physical testing. According to Valerian Giesz, CEO of QUANDELA, an objective is to try to ensure that “the emitted gases have the least impact on the greenhouse effect or health.”
QBIRD, A DUTCH START UP, JOINS THE P4Q PROJECT
Q*Bird will join the Photonics for Quantum (P4Q) pilot line and work with a consortium of partners to advance the path to industrialisation for photonic chip technologies. Congratulations to the team on this collaboration!
The P4Q pilot, coordinated by the University of Twente, is focused on accelerating the development of industrial photonic chips for quantum-secure communication. Bringing together 29 partners across industry and research in Europe, the P4Q pilot addresses a common challenge in the development of quantum photonic chips: taking a chip from the design phase to repeatable production and continued performance.
QUANDELA, which we quote in the above article, resorts to a variation of the same photonic technology to build Qubits.
A QUANTUM PROOF NETWORK BETWEEN PARIS AND BORDEAUX
Equinix, Nokia, and RTE subsidiary Arteria successfully tested an ultra-secure network resistant to quantum threats on a 1,800-kilometer round-trip link between Pantin and Bordeaux. The three players were thus able to maintain a throughput of 100 gigabits per second. The solution is already available and particularly suited to clients in sectors holding sensitive data, such as public institutions, defense, and financial services.
ANOTHER EVIDENCE OF MATURITY : TWO QUANTUM MANUFACTURERS PREPARE TO GO PUBLIC
The Finnish IQM and the US QUANTINUUM are following different paths, but with the same objective of having an IPO later this year.
AND THE DUTCH QUANTWARE SECURES A LARGE 178 M€ FUNDING
SPACETECH
As the CYSAT event is approaching, the organizers unveil some of the topics which will be on the discussion.
Space systems are reaching a level of complexity that human-driven security models alone can no longer handle.
Large-scale constellations, software-defined payloads, virtualized ground segments — these infrastructures generate volumes of telemetry and operational signals that far exceed what traditional security approaches can monitor. And attackers are keeping pace, leveraging automation and AI-assisted techniques to probe, adapt, and persist.
The answer isn’t simply adding AI on top of existing security stacks. AI must be embedded within a broader framework of trustworthy, verifiable, and resilient system design — while acknowledging that AI itself introduces new risks: model manipulation, data poisoning, unpredictable failure modes.
CYSAT takes place in Paris Station F on May 20-21.
IOT SERVICES
After consolidating its IoT activities under a single brand, Telenor Connexion, in January 2026, the Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor announced that it had reached an agreement with the Norwegian investment fund Verdane which will now hold 50% of the capital of Telenor Connexion. The objective is going beyond the provision of simple roaming SIM cards, to move towards connected object lifecycle management services, towards cross-border service continuity, and towards the ability to provide support for connected products
CHIPS MANUFACTURING
Two UK companies have started their journey to defy NVIDIA. FRACTILE is building chips, systems and software to radically improve the speed and cost of running frontier AI inference. OLIX develops an architecture which combines static random access memory (SRAM, used by NVIDIA) and photonics to exceed classical GPU’s performance. Both companies have recently secured funding higher than 200 M€, with unicorns valuation.
