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IBM Launches Its Most Advanced Quantum Computers, Fueling New Scientific Value and Progress towards Quantum Advantage

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Qiskit, the world’s most performant quantum software, can extend length and complexity of certain circuits to 5,000 two-qubit operations with accurate results on IBM quantum computers

RIKEN and Cleveland Clinic explore new, scientifically valuable problems by combining quantum and classical resources with Qiskit; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute takes steps towards quantum-centric supercomputing

Qiskit services from IBM, Algorithmiq, Qedma, QunaSys, Q-CTRL, and Multiverse Computing to expand performance while simplifying how next-generation algorithms can be built

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Today at its inaugural IBM Quantum Developer Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced quantum hardware and software advancements to execute complex algorithms on IBM quantum computers with record levels of scale, speed, and accuracy.

IBM Quantum Heron, the company’s most performant quantum processor to-date and available in IBM’s global quantum data centers, can now leverage Qiskit to accurately run certain classes of quantum circuits with up to 5,000 two-qubit gate operations. Users can now use these capabilities to expand explorations in how quantum computers can tackle scientific problems across materials, chemistry, life sciences, high-energy physics, and more.

This continues the achievement of milestones on IBM’s Quantum Development Roadmap, and further advances the era of quantum utility as IBM and its partners progress towards quantum advantage and IBM’s advanced, error-corrected system planned for 2029. 

The combined improvements across IBM Heron and Qiskit can execute certain mirrored kicked Ising quantum circuits of up to 5,000 gates, which is nearly twice the number of gates accurately run in IBM’s 2023 demonstration of quantum utility. This work further extends the performance of IBM’s quantum computers beyond the capabilities of brute-force classical simulation methods. The 2023 utility experiment, published in Nature, demonstrated the speed results in terms of time to process, per data point, which totaled 112 hours. The same experiment, using the same data points, was run on the latest IBM Heron processor and can be completed in 2.2 hours, which is 50 times faster.

IBM has further evolved Qiskit into the world’s most performant quantum software to allow developers to more easily build complex quantum circuits with stability, accuracy, and speed. This is evidenced by results gathered and published on arXiv.org using Benchpress, an open-source benchmarking tool which IBM used to measure Qiskit across 1,000 tests, largely from third parties, and found it to be the highest-performing, most reliable quantum software development kit against other selected platforms.

“Advances across our hardware and Qiskit are enabling our users to build new algorithms in which advanced quantum and classical supercomputing resources can be knit together to combine their respective strengths,” said Jay Gambetta, Vice President, IBM Quantum. “As we advance on our roadmap towards error-corrected quantum systems, the algorithms discovered today across industries will be key to realizing the potential to solve new problems realized through the convergence of QPUs, CPUs, and GPUs.”

New Software Tools to Advance Development of Next-Generation Algorithms

The IBM Quantum Platform is further expanding options with new Qiskit services such as generative AI-based capabilities and software from IBM partners, allowing a growing network of experts across industries to build next-generation algorithms for scientific research. 

This includes tools such as the Qiskit Transpiler Service to power the efficient optimization of quantum circuits for quantum hardware with AI; Qiskit Code Assistant to help developers generate quantum code with IBM Granite-based generative AI models; Qiskit Serverless to run initial quantum-centric supercomputing approaches across quantum and classical systems; and the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog to make services available from IBM, Algorithmiq, Qedma, QunaSys, Q-CTRL, and Multiverse Computing for capabilities such as reducing the performance management of quantum noise, as well as abstracting away the complexities of quantum circuits to simplify the development of quantum algorithms.

“Algorithmiq’s tensor error network mitigation algorithm (TEM), available through the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog, offers state-of-the-art error mitigation for circuits at utility scale by leveraging steps towards quantum-centric supercomputing approaches, delivering the fastest quantum runtime we’ve yet offered to users,” said Matteo Rossi, CTO, Algorithmiq. “With the recent advancements we’ve made to combine quantum computers with post-processing on GPUs, we are pushing TEM’s capabilities to support circuits with up to 5,000 entangled quantum gates – a milestone for scaling quantum experiments and tackling complex problems. This could open the door to quantum simulations and computations previously constrained by noise limitations.”

“Progress across IBM quantum hardware and software are instrumental to Qedma’s mission to build services that will allow our users to run the longest and most complex quantum circuits,” said Dorit Aharonov, Chief Scientific Officer, Qedma. “Combined with our own achievements in error mitigation, which we offer via Qedma’s service in the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog, we look forward to furthering our mission of enabling global users to build algorithms with today’s quantum systems – and to achieve increasingly accurate results of scientific value.”

Qiskit Fuels Quantum and Classical Integration Towards Future of Computing

As the next evolution of high-performance computing, IBM’s vision of quantum-centric supercomputing aims to integrate advanced quantum and classical computers executing parallelized workloads to easily break apart complex problems with performant software, allowing each architecture to solve parts of an algorithm for which it is best suited. Such software is being designed to seamlessly and quickly knit problems back together, allowing algorithms to be run that are inaccessible or difficult for each computing paradigm on its own.

RIKEN, a national scientific research institute in Japan, and Cleveland Clinic, a leading academic medical center and biomedical research institution with an on-site and utility-scale IBM Quantum System One, are exploring algorithms for electronic structure problems that are fundamental to chemistry.

These initiatives represent the first steps towards quantum-centric supercomputing approaches to realistically model complex chemical and biological systems, a task historically believed to require fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Early examples of these types of workflows are methods based on parallel classical processing of individual samples from quantum computers. Building on prior techniques, such as QunaSys’s QSCI method, IBM and RIKEN researchers have performed sample-based quantum diagonalizations in quantum-centric supercomputing environments, which make use of quantum hardware to accurately model the electronic structure of iron sulfides, a compound present widely in nature and organic systems.

Now available as a deployable Qiskit service, this same technique is being leveraged by Cleveland Clinic to explore how it could be used to implement quantum-centric simulations of noncovalent interactions: bonds between molecules that are essential to many chemical, biological, and pharmaceutical science processes.

“This research is an example of what makes our research partnership successful – bringing together IBM’s next-generation technologies with Cleveland Clinic’s world-renowned expertise in healthcare and life sciences,” said Lara Jehi, MD, Chief Research Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic. “Together, we are pushing through traditional scientific boundaries using cutting-edge technology such as Qiskit to advance research and find new treatments for patients around the globe.”

“With our partners at IBM, we were able to leverage their advanced quantum computing electronic structure algorithm to study – for the first time – intermolecular interactions on the on-site IBM Quantum System One at Cleveland Clinic, which are important for potential future applications in drug discovery and design,” said Kennie Merz, PhD and quantum molecular scientist at Cleveland Clinic.

“The RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) is conducting the Japan High Performance Computing-Quantum (JHPC-Quantum) project, which aims to build a quantum-HPC hybrid computing platform by integrating our supercomputer, Fugaku, with an on-premises IBM Quantum System Two powered by an IBM Quantum Heron processor. In the era of quantum utility, we will strongly support the initiative’s goal of demonstrating quantum-centric supercomputing approaches by using our platform as a first step towards this new computing architecture,” said Mitsuhisa Sato, the director of Quantum-HPC Hybrid Platform Division, RIKEN Center for Computational Science.

Additionally, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is using Qiskit tools to take initial steps to build IBM’s first realization of quantum-centric supercomputing on a university campus. With performant software, RPI and IBM are aiming to successfully connect workloads across the AiMOS classical supercomputer and IBM Quantum System One, both located on RPI’s campus, into a single computational environment managed by a standard high-performance computing resource manager.

“Since unveiling IBM Quantum System One on the RPI campus earlier this year, we have taken steps toward another significant first by starting the work to link the quantum system and our AiMOS supercomputer,” said Martin A. Schmidt, Ph.D., president of RPI. “This moment is a testament to our longstanding partnership with IBM, and, like the pairing of quantum computing and supercomputing, our two institutions together will drive exciting breakthroughs in the years to come.”

About IBM

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information.

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BitradeX BXC First Two Subscription Rounds Sell Out, Total Subscriptions Exceed 14M USDT

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LONDON, May 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — BitradeX Capital’s ecosystem equity token, BXC, has completed its first and second subscription rounds, selling a total of 50 million BXC with subscriptions exceeding 14 million USDT. The first round sold out in 90 seconds, while the second closed within 48 hours.

While the fundraising size is not unusually large by crypto standards, the structure of the sale has attracted market attention. The first two rounds were not open to the public, but limited to high-tier BitradeX users. The first round was available only to V5 users and above, while the second round expanded access to V3 users and above.

According to BitradeX’s tier system, V3+ users typically have higher recurring investment activity through AiBot, longer platform usage history, and stronger ecosystem participation. This means the early BXC allocation was absorbed mainly by the platform’s internal high-value user base, rather than short-term speculative participants.

This approach differs from many token fundraising campaigns that prioritize broad public participation and market hype. BitradeX instead adopted a more selective, staged model, gradually lowering the participation threshold while keeping the sale within its active ecosystem community.

BXC is positioned as more than a standard platform token. Its value framework is linked to BitradeX Capital’s broader ecosystem, including its exchange business, AiBot quantitative strategies, BTX Card payments, and Labs incubation platform. Public information indicates that BXC holders may receive staking rewards, benefit from ecosystem buybacks and burns, and gain priority access to Launchpad projects and governance participation.

The third subscription round is launched on April 30 at $0.35 USDT per BXC, with a total supply of 100 million BXC. It is now open to users participating in AiBot recurring investment. The fourth round price is expected to rise to $0.45 USDT.

The long-term value of BXC will ultimately depend on the growth of BitradeX’s underlying businesses, including exchange profitability, AiBot user expansion, and BTX Card adoption. However, the rapid sellout of the first two rounds suggests that BitradeX’s core user base has already shown strong confidence in the ecosystem’s future.

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South and East Asia identified as hotspots of global warming related impacts on male fertility

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BEIJING, May 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A major new study has shown that South and East Asia dominate patterns of global warming related decline in male fertility with the strongest and most consistent evidence coming from India, Pakistan and the southern parts of China.

The effects of increased environmental temperatures on male reproductive health include declining sperm concentration and motility and increased sperm DNA fragmentation, or genetic damage that can hinder fertilisation and embryo development.

Male related factors account for around 50 per cent of infertility cases around the world and the impact of rising ambient heat on semen parameters raises serious implications across wide areas of Asia where total fertility rates are in serious decline.

Outcomes of the study undertaken by the Taiwan IVF Group and Ton Yen General Hospital, Taiwan (China) in collaboration with Stanford University (USA) are being presented at the 2026 Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE) in Beijing.

Research principal and Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University, Dr Jack Yu Jen Huang, MD, PhD, FACOG said: “Given the temperature sensitivity of spermatogenesis, even modest increases in ambient temperature could have cumulative, population-level effects over time.

“As global warming accelerates, male reproductive health may represent an emerging climate sensitive public health concern.”

The testes function optimally at temperatures lower than the internal body heat level, and previous studies have shown elevated scrotal or ambient temperatures can impair sperm production.

The latest research explored global patterns to reveal comparative data across regions. It is based on a systematic review of international studies on temperature exposure and semen parameter trends between 2000 and 2024. Artificial intelligence algorithms and machine learning tools were applied to extract key variables including geographic regions and semen outcomes.

Dr Huang said studies examining occupational heat exposure alone were excluded from the analysis as they reflected localised, job-specific conditions rather than broader climatic trends.

“Our findings therefore represent population level climate associated temperature effects including consistent seasonal variations showing poor semen quality parameters in warmer periods.”

The global patterns on temperature associated lower sperm concentration and motility show South and East Asia as major hot spots of concern followed by the Middle East, Europe and North America.

“South and East Asia are likely more affected due to a combination of factors including higher baseline ambient temperatures and rapid urbanisation that contribute to greater cumulative heat stress on spermatogenesis,” Dr Huang explained.

“With ongoing global warming, chronic heat exposure may increasingly impact male reproductive health.”

Dr Huang said potential approaches to address the issue include:

increasing public awareness of heat exposure and reproductive health;encouraging protective behaviours;expanding research integrating climate and reproductive health data; andexploring clinical and lifestyle interventions to mitigate heat-related effects.

The research team was assisted by research intern Jeffrey Zi Kang Huang from Taipei American School, particularly in the application of artificial intelligence in biomedical research including AI-assisted data analysis and pattern recognition across global datasets.

“Further longitudinal and mechanistic studies will be important to better define causality and guide interventions,” he added.

The ASPIRE Congress is being held at the China National Convention Centre in Beijing. More than 3,000 scientists, clinicians, nurses and counsellors in assisted reproduction from around the world are attending the Congress.

For further information, go to https://www.aspire2026.com

 

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eclicktech Attends Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026, Highlighting Four Key Trends Shaping AI-Driven Global Marketing

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SHENZHEN, China, May 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amazon Ads recently hosted its annual flagship event, Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026, in Shenzhen, bringing together advertisers, agencies, and technology partners to explore the next phase of AI-powered marketing innovation. This year’s event focused on how AI is reshaping the advertising ecosystem through advancements in audience targeting, creative production, campaign management, and measurement capabilities.

Yeahmobi, the global marketing brand under eclicktech and an Amazon DSP validated partner, attended the event alongside industry leaders and ecosystem partners to discuss emerging opportunities for international brand growth in an increasingly AI-driven media environment.

During the conference, Amazon Ads introduced a series of product and solution updates across four major areas:

Advanced audience targeting powered by Amazon’s first-party data infrastructure to help brands reach high-intent consumers more effectively;AI-assisted creative production designed to improve content efficiency and support personalized advertising at scale;Intelligent campaign management tools aimed at simplifying cross-channel advertising workflows;Enhanced measurement and attribution capabilities to provide advertisers with clearer visibility into campaign performance and return on investment.

According to Yeahmobi, Amazon DSP is evolving beyond a standalone programmatic buying platform into a broader marketing infrastructure supporting the full customer journey, from brand awareness to conversion.

Since becoming an Amazon Ads partner, Yeahmobi has developed integrated advertising solutions spanning awareness, audience engagement, and conversion optimization. The company stated that it has supported brands across sectors including cross-border e-commerce, consumer electronics, AI applications, and financial services in scaling their global advertising efforts through Amazon DSP.

At the event, Yeahmobi also showcased its proprietary advertising management platform, Yeahgrowth, which integrates campaign management, data analytics, and performance optimization capabilities to support centralized multi-platform operations and improved campaign visibility.

“AI is fundamentally reshaping how brands approach global growth,” said William Liu, General Manager of Yeahmobi. “We see Amazon Ads as a strategically important part of the global marketing ecosystem. Our focus is not only on media execution, but also on building scalable growth infrastructure through deeper API integration, AI-driven optimization, and data collaboration.”

Yeahmobi stated that it will continue expanding its collaboration with Amazon Ads to support brands navigating increasingly complex global media environments.

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Yeahmobi is a global marketing brand focused on helping businesses achieve international growth through digital advertising, data-driven operations, and AI-powered marketing solutions.

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