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Enterprises that already got burned by an AI agent passing its evals and then failing in production are moving faster toward removing humans from deployment decisions, not slower — even as trust in automated evaluation is rising across the board, new VB Pulse research shows.In July, 13% of 108 enterprises surveyed said they trust automated … Read more

Insider Brief NTT DOCOMO has deployed its second D-Wave-powered quantum computing application in production to optimize mobile network tracking area lists. The application reduced peak location registration signals by 65.3% and paging signals by 7.0% in a representative network optimization problem. The system optimized a problem covering 333 base stations, three TA-Lists and nine tracking … Read more

Enterprise teams running AI agents at scale are finding that a single model handles every task poorly — either the model is too expensive for simple questions or not capable enough for hard ones. Model routing, which picks the right model for each task automatically, is becoming the fix.Snowflake’s Cortex AI Gateway now offers dynamic … Read more

Insider Brief Sydney Quantum Academy is hosting the sold-out Quantum Future Talent event in Chatswood on August 18 to introduce students, teachers and the public to quantum technology and career pathways. More than 500 students from Years 8 to 12 will attend hands-on demonstrations, expert presentations and an exhibition highlighting quantum technology applications. SQA has … Read more

Insider Brief Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faced community opposition over the planned $9 billion Quantum Shore development but declined activists’ calls to halt the project. Community groups, including Southside Together, are urging the city to revoke permits, withdraw funding and tax incentives, and oppose further development of the quantum campus. Opponents have raised concerns about … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers at the University of Basel and Technical University of Munich have developed an optical method to study the collective motion of electrons in Wigner crystals. The team observed optical signatures produced by interactions between excitons and the ordered electrons in an atomically thin tungsten diselenide layer. The resulting Wigner crystal polarons provide … Read more

Insider Brief China is testing quantum sensing, secure communications and computing at the 220-kilovolt Houdian demonstration substation in Hefei to improve power-grid monitoring, security and analysis. The facility, commissioned in November 2024, has deployed 85 domestically developed quantum devices across 18 categories, including diamond-based sensors, quantum-dot sensors and quantum communications equipment. Several technologies demonstrated at … Read more

Insider Brief NHanced Semiconductors and the University of Florida will present research on advanced packaging approaches for silicon photonics at the 2026 SMTA International Conference. The paper will examine copper-copper hybrid bonding and silicon interposers for 2.5D heterogeneous integration of chiplets in photonic systems. The research will address packaging challenges including bonding defects, alignment accuracy, … Read more

Insider Brief Argonne National Laboratory is launching a three-year, $1 million project to develop diamond-based quantum sensors for high-precision electromagnetic field measurements in high-energy physics experiments. The project will use nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to develop sensors and magnetic-field mapping systems that can operate in high-field and radiation-rich environments. Researchers will develop and test … Read more

Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub’s status page lit up with what became a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation — error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file … Read more