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Insider Brief Researchers from KRISS, GIST and Kongju National University identified the source of a beat signal in topological insulator nanowires as the overlap of quantum oscillations from topological surface and ordinary electron states. The team found that oscillations from the topological surface state and a two-dimensional electron gas beneath the surface have slightly different … Read more

Insider Brief EigenQ and Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. have confidentially submitted a draft Form S-4 registration statement to the SEC as they advance their proposed business combination. The transaction remains subject to shareholder approvals, SEC review and other customary closing conditions, with completion currently expected in the fourth quarter of 2026. If completed, the combined … Read more

Insider Brief IBM has connected and cooled two modular cryogenic systems as part of its effort to build scalable infrastructure for larger fault-tolerant quantum computers. The two modules reached below 15 millikelvin after cooling to 4 Kelvin in under five days and provide expanded wiring capacity for connecting quantum processors. IBM plans to use L-couplers … Read more

Insider Brief Ideon Technologies has joined an international research consortium testing high-resolution muon imaging using a laser-plasma accelerator at the ELI-NP facility in Romania. The five-week experiment will generate directed muon beams from multi-GeV electron beams, with Ideon providing compact muon detectors and data processing capabilities. The project is intended to assess laser-driven muon sources … Read more

Insider Brief Allot has joined technology companies and academic institutions as a founding member and chair of a new Israeli consortium focused on post-quantum communications. The consortium will develop and evaluate quantum-safe technologies based on post-quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution and hybrid approaches. Research will cover optical, Ethernet, IP, mobile, satellite, data center and internet … Read more

Insider Brief Cornell researchers developed a krypton-based sputtering process that deposits high-quality superconducting tantalum films on silicon at 200 degrees Celsius, potentially making the material easier to integrate into commercial quantum-chip fabrication. The method cuts the typical tantalum deposition temperature by about half while producing thin films with substantially higher electronic conductivity and high-quality qubits. … Read more

Insider Brief IonQ and CMC Microsystems are collaborating to provide Canadian academics and small-to-medium-sized businesses access to IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum computers through the FABrIC Quantum Computing Sandbox. A newly signed memorandum of understanding designates IonQ as a listed cloud quantum computing access provider for the sandbox. The government-funded FABrIC program aims to strengthen Canada’s semiconductor … Read more

Guest Post by Animesh Datta, Professor of Quantum Information Science, University of Warwick, for The Conversation In the global race to build bigger and better quantum computers, researchers have taken a step forward. A new machine called Helios is a radically different system compared to other quantum computers. Quantum computers harness the power of quantum mechanics, … Read more

After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability in Cursor, GLM-5.3, the new frontier open source language model from Chinese startup z.ai, has now hit the application programming interface (API) — allowing developers the ability to build atop it and plug it into their agents … Read more

Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal, is open-sourcing Berd, a desktop application it originally built to give its own employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, tools and projects.Berd is a locally installed graphical … Read more