Shadow science minister Paul Fletcher says the “obsessive levels of secrecy” applied to Australia’s billion-dollar investment in California-based startup PsiQuantum raises suspicions that the process was reverse-engineered to a...
Industry minister Ed Husic won’t reveal what terms the government secured for its part in a near $1 billion investment in a US quantum computing firm and has defended...
Australia’s $940 million bet on PsiQuantum should be swiftly followed by more direct investments in local quantum businesses and research organisations, according to the country’s newest technology industry association....
The federal and Queensland governments will together invest almost $1 billion in California-based PsiQuantum to build the world’s first fault-tolerant error-corrected corrected quantum computer in Australia. Prime Minister Anthony...
The idea that a federal Industry minister would champion a large public investment into a foreign technology company and then hold that investment up as a signature project in...
Industry minister Ed Husic has claimed public interest immunity to withhold documents that reveal federal government dealings with US-based quantum computing firm PsiQuantum in the lead up to last...
Sydney-based startup Diraq is confident it can develop the world’s first commercial quantum computing system in just over four years’ using silicon quantum dots, beating out other local and...
Almost two dozen local and international quantum firms were approached by the federal government last year as part of a private expression of interest process designed to gauge the...
The federal government has refused to release documentation about its secret expression of interest process conducted with quantum computing companies, but in doing so has confirmed that the process...
US-based quantum computing firm PsiQuantum met with former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in the same month that a secret quantum computing EoI was issued by the federal government last...