{"id":426081,"date":"2026-01-20T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426081\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:22:09","slug":"q-ctrl-lays-claim-to-a-world-first-commercial-quantum-advantage-capital-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426081\/","title":{"rendered":"Q-CTRL lays claim to a world-first &#8216;commercial quantum advantage&#8217; \u2014 Capital Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 commercial flights are disrupted by GPS jamming every day, most originating from Russia&#8217;s electronic interference along major European and Middle Eastern flight corridors.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian company now says it has solved the crisis with quantum technology, achieving what it calls &#8220;actual commercial quantum advantage&#8221; \u2014 and it&#8217;s betting the long-awaited computing revolution is only two to three years away.<\/p>\n<p>Q-CTRL&#8217;s quantum-powered navigation systems deliver GPS-like accuracy without relying on satellite signals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first time since atomic clocks in the 60s and 70s that quantum systems are really delivering a net advantage in a commercially relevant application,&#8221; Michael Biercuk, Q-CTRL CEO, told Capital Brief.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of GPS interference has grown exponentially. In 2024, jamming incidents affecting commercial aviation numbered in the dozens daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1,000 commercial flights are disrupted by GPS jamming every day, most originating from Russia&#8217;s electronic interference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,3121,2292,1483,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-426081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-geopolitics","11":"tag-quantum-computing","12":"tag-startups","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}