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Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI’s … Read more
Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. The company announced that GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT desktop application on macOS and Windows, integrating directly with agentic systems like Codex and ChatGPT Work (which … Read more
When Cisco ran 6,986 multi-turn attacks against 15 flagship models, attackers who adapted across the conversation broke through as often as 88.3% of the time. Amy Chang, Cisco’s head of AI threat intelligence and security research, brought that finding to the agentic security panel at VB Transform 2026; the number should worry anyone still running … Read more
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today’s launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlying architecture to robotic vision and actions.The Freiburg, Germany-based … Read more
Insider Brief The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) and Japan’s Q-STAR have signed an MOU to strengthen collaboration between quantum companies, researchers, and institutions in Illinois and Japan. The partnership will support joint research, technology development, investment connections, and supply chain opportunities for quantum startups and organizations in both regions. The agreement expands ongoing … Read more
At a CISO roundtable organized by Anthropic’s chief information security officer, Dev Rishi asked a simple question: Did everyone in the room have their AI governance and security policies written down? Every hand went up — about 14 people, by his count. His follow-up, about how anyone actually enforces those policies in practice, got a … Read more
Insider Brief The White House’s new science strategy outlines a new model for American innovation that emphasizes mission-driven research, public-private partnerships, manufacturing and regional ecosystems, a framework that closely aligns with how much of the quantum industry has already evolved. Rather than focusing solely on scientific discovery, the policy argues that future U.S. technology leadership … Read more
Insider Brief Infleqtion will deploy a neutral-atom quantum computer at the Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics Park in 2027 and establish a Chicago Quantum Innovation Center. The company’s Sqale quantum computing platform will support research into fault-tolerant quantum computing and applications including energy grid optimization. The Chicago center will focus on developing quantum computing applications for … Read more
Insider Brief Quantum Elements has launched Orbit as a Qiskit Function in the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog, providing IBM Quantum Network members access to advanced error suppression capabilities. Orbit is designed to improve quantum circuit performance by applying dynamical decoupling techniques while reducing workflow complexity and computational overhead. The tool supports dynamic circuits and mid-circuit … Read more
Insider Brief A group of major financial institutions and Bitcoin companies has launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium with $15 million in combined funding commitments over three years. The consortium will support Bitcoin security research and development efforts, including work related to preparing the network for potential future quantum computing threats. Founding members will independently direct … Read more