QuTech, TU Delft, TNO – Showing entanglement between all possible qubit pairs, ability to generate 7 qubits entanglement, and 1min decoherence time. That's super-long. Looking forward to see larger registers, and also how these can be used to serve as quantum repeaters in networks. Some additional info at physics.aps.org.

Don't talk to me if you haven't read this. It you have but mix-up entanglement and correlations well, you'll be roasted :-)

Europe – Europe is launching OPENQKD and initiative to test quantum communications in several european countries: Hungary, Portugal, Poland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, and Spain. The important part is not QKD but quantum communication. QKD will be a test not the single final outcome of the initiative. Just saying this to all other Member states where people see QKD as the only thing to do with quantum networks. Well have a look at the quantum protocol zoo http://wiki.veriqloud.fr. By the way, where is France in this list ?

Q-CTRL, Square Peg Capital, Sequoia Capital, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Venture, Sierra Ventures – Provides firmware for quantum computing hardware with the goal to reduce decoherence and errors.

IBM-Q, Fraunhofer – 650m euros on the table for quantum computer. Germany also has partnerships with Google. Looks like a coordinated public effort is made to attract the best minds and projects to Germany.

QCWare, Scott Aaronson – QCWare hires Scott Aaronson. They will have one of the strongest team in the world with Win van Dam, Iordanis Kerenidis and now Scott.

Google, U. Innsbruck, AQT – Cirq is Google's quantum programming language, that's not only used for sending commands to Google's quantum computers but also to AQT and U. Innsbruck ones.

IBM-Q – 14 systems will be commercially available with one being a 53 qubits universal quantum computer.

MIT

NIST

IQOQI

Physics Today – How to write and draw general public books on quantum mechanics… ?