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Insider Brief Fraunhofer ILT has developed and commissioned a compact laser-optical system for the University of Stuttgart that can precisely control and position 2,000 Rydberg atoms for a quantum computer under construction. The system generates 2,000 individually controllable optical tweezers from four input laser beams, arranging atoms in a 20-by-100 array with 3.5-micrometer spacing and … Read more

Presented by Box Content access, governance, and platform flexibility are emerging as the dividing lines between AI leaders and laggards, according to the new State of AI in the enterprise report from Box, which surveyed 1,640 IT decision makers across the US, UK, France, and Japan. One of the report’s major findings is the speed … Read more

Insider Brief The U.S. National Science Foundation launched Project Triad, an initiative to integrate quantum sensing, quantum networking and quantum computing into a single operational system to accelerate real-world applications and commercialization. Project Triad will be supported by three programs — the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory, NSF X-Labs and NSF Quantum+X — that will … Read more

Insider Brief Oratomic raised a $300 million Series A to accelerate development of fault-tolerant, utility-scale quantum computers. The company plans to use the funding to expand quantum hardware fabrication, algorithmic research and its physics and hardware engineering teams. Oratomic’s research suggests neutral-atom quantum systems may reduce the hardware needed for useful quantum computing, while also … Read more

Insider Brief Photonic Inc. has appointed Orlagh Neary as Chief Marketing Officer and Briony Shipman as Vice President of Global Government Affairs as the company expands its commercial and policy operations. Neary brings experience from Microsoft’s AI, cloud, and quantum ecosystem initiatives, while Shipman joins from Lloyds Banking Group and previously held leadership roles at … Read more

Presented by Red Hat At VentureBeat’s recent AI Impact event, where the discussion centered on what separates enterprises that scale agentic AI from those that stall in pilot mode, Brian Gracely, senior director of portfolio strategy at Red Hat, detailed what companies actually run into once agents reach production. He dove into cost discipline, the … Read more

Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web, expanding a tool that has quietly become the company’s bridge between the developer-centric world of AI coding agents and the far larger market of knowledge workers who never open a terminal.The rollout, which begins in beta with Max subscribers before expanding to additional plans, marks … Read more

Presented by MongoDBThe gap between what AI models and agents can produce and what legacy infrastructure can reliably support is known as architectural drag, and it is the defining bottleneck of the agentic era. The data layer underneath an agentic system must handle variable schemas, vector embeddings, real-time retrieval, and multi-tenant scale, often simultaneously and without … Read more

Insider Brief The University of Pretoria has been selected to host UP Quantum Science and Technology (UPQuST), one of six research hubs under South Africa’s Quantum Technology Initiative (SA QuTI). The five-year initiative will focus on quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum metrology while supporting research, skills development, and industry collaboration. UPQuST aims to strengthen … Read more

Insider Brief SEALSQ reported preliminary first-half 2026 revenue of approximately $11 million, up about 120% from a year earlier, while reaffirming full-year revenue guidance of $27 million to $36 million and highlighting a $495 million cash position. The company advanced commercialization of its post-quantum security portfolio by achieving key certification milestones for its QS7001 secure … Read more