Insider Brief BQP has appointed NUAIR President and CEO Craig Marcinkowski to its Board of Directors as the company expands its presence across the U.S. defense, aerospace, and technology sectors. Marcinkowski brings more than 25 years of experience in defense technology, unmanned systems, surveillance platforms, and commercial program development. The appointment follows BQP’s continued collaborations … Read more

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code this week, an open-source update to its K2 coding model family, claiming leaner reasoning and double-digit performance gains.K2.7-Code is built on the same trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture as its predecessor K2.6, and drops in via an OpenAI-compatible API — which matters for teams already running K2.6 in production gateways.When K2.6 launched … Read more

Large language models continue to struggle with hallucinations, presenting a major roadblock for real-world enterprise applications. Reducing these errors is a messy business, forcing model developers to navigate a strict tradeoff where eliminating factual errors often suppresses valid answers.In a new paper, Google researchers introduce the concept of “faithful uncertainty,” a metacognitive technique that aligns … Read more

Insider Brief SEALSQ and WISeKey provided an update on the Quantum Spatial Orbital Cloud (QSOC), a planned satellite-based platform for post-quantum security, digital identity, quantum randomness, and AI services. The first QSOC satellite is scheduled for launch in Q4 2026, with a long-term roadmap targeting a constellation of up to 100 satellites by 2033. The … Read more

Insider Brief IQM Quantum Computers has appointed Barbara Venneman, former Global Head of Deloitte Digital and current Vanguard board director, to its Board of Directors as the company expands its global commercial operations. Venneman brings more than 30 years of experience in digital transformation, enterprise technology commercialization, go-to-market strategy, and business scaling. IQM also announced … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers at the Hong Kong University developed a cryogenic neuromorphic hardware platform using silicon carbide transistors that can mimic neuron-like spiking behavior at temperatures as low as 10 millikelvin, potentially addressing a key scaling challenge in quantum computing. The team demonstrated that industry-standard silicon carbide MOSFETs exhibit a stable form of negative differential … Read more

Insider Brief ORCA Computing has joined Digital Realty’s new Innovation Lab in London, where its photonic quantum systems will be tested in a live data center environment. The lab allows organizations to evaluate AI and quantum technologies under operational conditions before broader deployment. ORCA’s PT Series systems will operate alongside AI and HPC infrastructure without … Read more

Insider Brief Google declined to participate in the U.S. government’s $2 billion quantum funding initiative, citing program conditions that the company said would have slowed its development efforts. Microsoft and IonQ were also absent from the list of nine funding recipients, which included IBM, Quantinuum, PsiQuantum, Rigetti Computing, Infleqtion and GlobalFoundries. Google said it remains … Read more

Insider Brief Trapped-ion quantum computing remains one of the leading quantum hardware approaches due to its high gate fidelity, long coherence times, and strong positioning for fault-tolerant computing. Companies including Quantinuum, IonQ, AQT, eleQtron, and Universal Quantum are pursuing different strategies to improve scalability and reduce hardware complexity. The modality continues to offer advantages in … Read more

Insider Brief Swedish quantum startup Arkeon raised €594,200 (SEK 6.5 million) in seed funding to advance a technology designed to improve the precision and yield of superconducting quantum chip manufacturing. Arkeon’s approach enables qubit frequencies to be adjusted after fabrication by modifying Josephson junction resistance, helping compensate for production variations that can affect chip performance. … Read more