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Insider Brief PsiQuantum appointed Rob Soderbery as Executive Vice President and Sriram Sitaraman as Chief Information Officer as the company expands its leadership team and operational capabilities. Soderbery will focus on advancing PsiQuantum’s silicon photonics platform and scaling engineering and operational efforts, while Sitaraman will lead global IT infrastructure, security, and digital transformation. The appointments … Read more

Insider Brief ESA-ESRIN has installed its first quantum computer, Equal1’s Bell-1 system, to explore hybrid quantum-classical computing approaches for Earth observation challenges. The six-qubit silicon spin qubit system will be integrated with ESA’s high-performance computing infrastructure to test quantum algorithms using real Earth observation datasets. The project aims to evaluate where quantum computing can provide … Read more

Insider Brief Quantum networking startup Arq has raised a $1.4 million pre-seed funding round led by Ground State Ventures, with participation from Big Sur Ventures, to accelerate development of quantum repeater technology for the future quantum internet. Arq is developing a multiplexed quantum repeater based on rare-earth-doped crystal quantum memories and photon-pair sources, designed to … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers demonstrated a new class of room-temperature quantum materials that selectively transmit or suppress different quantum states of light by engineering “allowed” and “forbidden” statistical bands, a capability that could support future quantum technologies and energy applications. The study showed that plasmonic metacrystals made from arrays of gold nanoantennas can manipulate the statistical … Read more

By Aldo Romero, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University The Conversation Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another. That seems obvious, because in the world we see around us, light appears to follow … Read more

Insider Brief Mind Success has launched two software platforms designed to accelerate quantum hardware development through AI-driven materials discovery and predictive hardware modeling. The company’s Quantum Materials Discovery Platform screens more than 150,000 candidate materials and automatically generates density functional theory simulations to evaluate promising options. Its Digital Twin Framework models environmental noise around qubits … Read more

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot wrappers, the control plane enterprises expect is … Read more

Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in virtual private clouds have a strong new contender to consider.Today, Thinking Machines—the highly capitalized American AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati—released Inkling, its first major language model under an … Read more

Insider Brief The Quantum Economic Development Consortium’s 2026 Quantum Technology Showcase on the Hill brought together U.S. policymakers, federal officials and leading quantum companies to demonstrate the growing commercial and strategic importance of quantum technologies. The event followed recent White House quantum initiatives and highlighted quantum computing, communications, sensing and enabling technologies as Congress considers … Read more

Hundreds of enterprise leaders and technical experts packed the main ballroom of the luxurious Hotel Nia in Menlo Park this week for VB Transform 2026, the year’s preeminent conference on using generative AI agents to drive business outcomes. Rachad Alao, vice president of product engineering at the rising Canadian enterprise AI startup Cohere, joined VentureBeat … Read more