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Insider Brief BTQ Technologies has signed an MOU with ITCEN PNS to explore post-quantum cryptography and quantum-safe security solutions for financial, public-sector, and enterprise systems. The collaboration will focus on integrating PQC, quantum-safe authentication, and security infrastructure across digital identity, biometric authentication, financial networks, and enterprise platforms. The partnership combines BTQ’s post-quantum security technologies with … Read more

Insider Brief New York is offering up to $60 million to establish as many as four regional hubs focused on commercializing quantum technologies and supporting startups. Empire State Development anticipates awards of about $15 million per hub, with only one hub selected in each economic development region. Eligible nonprofit organizations must propose physical facilities that … Read more

Insider Brief SDT has joined Open Quantum Design as a member and manufacturing partner to support the development of open-source ion-trap quantum computing hardware. The partnership will have SDT manufacture components including vacuum chambers, ion-trapping electrodes, optical systems, and control electronics based on OQD’s publicly available designs. SDT and OQD aim to expand access to … Read more

Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform used by Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, released its new flagship model Palmyra X6 today, alongside a rebuilt agent orchestration “harness” and new governance tools designed to give IT leaders control over runaway token spending.The headline numbers are striking: Writer says its agent product now operates … Read more

Guest Post By Utkarsh Ahuja, Managing Partner and founder Moon Pursuit Capital KPMG’s latest Venture Pulse gives you a pretty good sense of where venture capital’s attention is right now. Global VC investment reached $227.4 billion in the second quarter of 2026, making it the second-highest quarter on record, and AI was behind many of … Read more

Insider Brief Infleqtion reported record Q2 2026 revenue of $12.6 million, representing 116% year-over-year growth, and raised its full-year 2026 revenue outlook to approximately $43 million. The company advanced quantum computing and sensing programs, including government funding initiatives, a planned Illinois quantum computer deployment, and commercial application projects. Infleqtion reiterated its target of reaching 30 … Read more

Guest Post by Dr. Richard Padbury, Dr. Aaron Kemp, Dr. Cian Reeves In boardrooms around the world, a familiar question keeps coming up: When will quantum advantage arrive? It is a fair question. Increasingly, though, it may be the wrong one. That is not because quantum advantage has yet to be observed. A growing number … Read more

Insider Brief Optica Publishing Group has appointed NIST Fellow Kartik Srinivasan as the new editor-in-chief of Optica Quantum. Srinivasan brings research expertise in integrated quantum photonics, nonlinear nanophotonics, and photonic systems, with applications in quantum communications and sensing. He succeeds founding editor-in-chief Michael G. Raymer and will lead the journal’s editorial activities for the quantum … Read more

Insider Brief D-Wave received up to CAD $300,000 from Canada’s National Research Council to develop software aimed at expanding the capabilities of its Advantage2 annealing quantum computers. The project will develop new graph minor-embedding algorithms for D-Wave’s Zephyr topology and integrate them into the company’s open-source Ocean software development kit. D-Wave said the software is … Read more

Elon Musk’s company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those workloads cheaper to run.The model scores 61 on the third-party Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing the popular open weights … Read more