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HELSINKI (May 18, 2026) – F-Secure and Qutwo today announced a strategic partnership to develop pioneering solutions and services that build consumer trust in an era defined by rapidly expanding artificial intelligence (AI) use. Qutwo is a leading European AI lab for the next compute paradigm and F-Secure’s cyber security solutions protect tens of millions of consumers from scams and other online threats. Together, they will create AI‑native security that protects consumers in a trust landscape fundamentally altered by AI.
F-Secure's latest market research found that 84% of consumers worry AI will make it impossible to know what is real online. This rapid erosion of consumer trust calls for a new generation of solutions to address this challenge. The collaboration addresses two interconnected challenges: protecting consumers as AI tools become central to daily digital life, and pioneering AI‑native security that anticipates threats before they occur. Together, the two companies will develop capabilities that go beyond traditional point protection — securing entire digital lifestyle flows, from browsing and shopping to AI agent interactions.
Timo Laaksonen, President and CEO of F‑Secure: "We are in a fundamental shift — from AI as a tool you query, to AI as a delegate that acts on your behalf. This — coupled with the backdrop of a consumer threat landscape continually shaped by AI — creates a trust gap that no one is better positioned to close than F‑Secure. We have spent over three decades building consumer trust; now we are extending that into the agentic AI economy. Qutwo brings the AI R&D expertise and the infrastructure layer that accelerate our roadmap, and together we are moving faster toward a future where every consumer can engage with AI across their digital journey with confidence. Ultimately, F‑Secure brings trust to a world AI keeps rewriting."
Qutwo brings together over 50 world-class quantum and AI scientists and engineers — alongside Qutwo OS, a platform that provides infrastructure and algorithms across the full computing spectrum, from classical to quantum. For F‑Secure, Qutwo represents a partner that combines frontier research depth with the infrastructure layer needed to translate that research into deployable product capabilities. The collaboration embeds Qutwo directly into F-Secure's AI research and development activities, operating as an integrated unit working at the frontier of what AI‑native security can be.
Peter Sarlin, Founder and Chairman of Qutwo: “The security challenges of the next decade will not be solved by the tools from the last one. F-Secure's decision to build next-generation cyber security with Qutwo demonstrates exactly the kind of foresight that separates the companies that will lead this transition from those that will follow it. This partnership is a concrete example of two European companies building ambitious AI to drive competitiveness.”
About Qutwo
Incubated within PostScriptum, the cradle behind Silo AI and NestAI, Qutwo operates as Europe's next-generation AI lab for a quantum world. The company brings together an exceptional team with co‑founders of IQM and Silo AI, and over 50 quantum and AI scientists (majority PhDs) from organizations like Microsoft Research, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cambridge Uni, Yale Uni, EPFL, UCL, NUS, Princeton, Aalto University, UCLA, MIT, IBM, Nokia, Unity, HP, Huawei, and VTT. In addition, the board of directors includes senior industry leaders Pekka Lundmark (ex-Nokia CEO), Antti Vasara (ex-VTT CEO, EC’s Quantum Strategy Board), Markus Mannström (ex-Stora Enso CTO) and Patrik Pehrsson (ex-Silo AI CFO). Through Qutwo OS, the company provides enterprises with a comprehensive platform for classical, hybrid, and full quantum AI systems, enabling customers to capture value today while preparing for the hybrid-quantum era ahead.
Press contacts
Sabrina Evans
Head of Content & Communications
sabrina.evans@f-secure.com
Joel Latto
PR Manager, EMEA
joel.latto@f-secure.com
