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Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being has to touch the production line.The San Francisco-based manufacturer announced today the Hybrid BRC (Bright Robotic Cell), an expansion of its Bright Factory platform that lets human operators … Read more
Insider Brief Anthropic says its Claude Mythos Preview AI model discovered improved mathematical attacks against the HAWK post-quantum digital signature candidate and a reduced-round version of AES, demonstrating that advanced AI can contribute to cryptography research without affecting current production systems. The AI reduced HAWK’s effective security margin by identifying a previously unknown mathematical symmetry … Read more
Insider Brief IonQ has received final regulatory approval to acquire SkyWater Technology, positioning the companies to complete the transaction on July 31, 2026 and strengthen IonQ’s U.S.-based quantum computing manufacturing capabilities. The acquisition is intended to accelerate IonQ’s quantum computing roadmap by securing a fully domestic, scalable semiconductor supply chain to support its chip-focused hardware … Read more
Visa aimed Anthropic’s Claude Mythos at the infrastructure behind billions of daily transactions, a network that spans more than 200 countries and territories, moves money in roughly 160 currencies, and connects nearly 5 billion payment credentials to more than 175 million merchant locations. The model stitched minor weaknesses deep in the stack into working exploit … Read more
Software engineers at General Motors’ (GM’s) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM’s VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026.GM is now using AI agents to accelerate much of the other 85%—including analyzing vehicle data, triaging problems, running experiments and … Read more
Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during real-time video generation. The fix wasn’t a back-end patch — it was a new front-end feature that just worked around the problem. That’s the kind of lesson Ryan Phillips, head of enterprise product at Runway ML, … Read more
Instacart is posing the provocative question: What if most of the work your engineers do today should, in fact, be done by machines?At VB Transform 2026, CTO Anirban Kundu argued that dev teams continue to waste their time on draining, repetitive, high-volume work; this should be absorbed by AI agents so that humans can focus … Read more
Insider Brief Two Hands Corporation has opened external beta testing of EntangleX, its quantum circuit simulation software platform, with selected partners after completing internal testing. The beta program will collect feedback on the platform’s user interface, circuit-building workflow, stability, and functionality to guide future development. EntangleX is a software-based quantum circuit simulator that uses conventional … Read more
Insider Brief Riverlane and the Unitary Foundation have launched the Deltakit Community Fund to support external developers building features for Riverlane’s open-source quantum error correction toolkit. The quarterly program will provide developer awards of $2,000 to $4,000 for projects focused on areas including error budgeting, threshold computation, and benchmarking tools. The initiative builds on participation … Read more
Insider Brief Infleqtion has appointed Dr. Joseph Buck as senior vice president of quantum computing systems to lead development of its Sqale neutral-atom quantum computing platform. Buck joins Infleqtion from Lockheed Martin with more than two decades of experience in quantum, optical, and photonic systems development. The appointment supports Infleqtion’s efforts to scale its neutral-atom … Read more