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Insider Brief AQSolotl and QuantrolOx have formed a strategic partnership to integrate quantum control hardware with machine learning-based automation software for scalable quantum computing systems. The collaboration will combine AQSolotl’s Chronos-Q control hardware with the QuantrolOx Quantum EDGE platform to automate calibration, reduce manual tuning and improve qubit stability. The companies plan to benchmark the … Read more

Insider Brief An opinion piece in The Economist argues that quantum computing is one of the clearest cases for targeted U.S. industrial policy because of its national-security implications and immature supply chain. The authors say the Trump administration’s quantum investments take an interesting path because they support multiple computing architectures rather than placing a single … Read more

The Conversation by Domenico VicinanzaAssociate Professor of Intelligent Systems and Data Science, Anglia Ruskin University In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. Each atom is far smaller than anything the naked eye could ever see, yet … Read more

Mistral AI on Tuesday released OCR 4, a document intelligence model that moves beyond raw text extraction to return structured representations of entire documents — complete with bounding boxes, block-type classification, and per-word confidence scores. The release marks Mistral’s fourth generation of optical character recognition technology in roughly 15 months and lands at a moment … Read more

AI agent orchestration platforms are popping up like weeds these days, but London-based AI transformation startup Mindstone’s Rebel might be among the most promising I’ve come across. That’s because the system, which officially launched this week, is a local-first, agentic AI operating system distributed under a “Fair Source” license, allowing teams of under 100 users … Read more

AI agents are increasingly proficient at executing business tasks autonomously, but IT leaders are cautious about granting permissions to access enterprise systems. Part of the challenge lies in how AI reliability is measured. Industry standards often rely on EVAL scores, which provide a static snapshot of performance rather than a measure of overall reliability. These metrics … Read more

Shopify built an LLM proxy that gives every engineer access to multiple AI providers — with automatic failover when any one of them goes down, changes, or disappears. When Claude Fable 5 shut down, Shopify’s engineers didn’t go into panic mode. The proxy shifted them to Claude Opus or GPT 5.5 automatically, without interrupting their … Read more

Insider Brief Classiq and TEA TEK Group have signed a multi-million-euro partnership to establish a quantum computing hub in Naples aimed at serving research, industry and public-sector users across Italy and Europe. The hub will combine quantum hardware with Classiq’s software platform and is expected to launch Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS) offerings by the end of 2026. … Read more

Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-AgentWorld on Tuesday — two models trained not to act inside agent environments, but to predict what those environments return. The release covers seven domains under a single architecture: MCP, Search, Terminal, Software Engineering, Android, Web, and OS. The release extends Alibaba’s recent push into autonomous agents. Qwen3.7-Max, released in May, … Read more

As enterprise AI agents take on increasingly complex, long-horizon tasks, their performance is often restricted by their harness, the software scaffolding that connects the backbone LLM to its environment. Currently, harnesses are largely static and hand-crafted. Improving them is largely manual and they do not automatically improve based on the execution data they collect from their … Read more