Why AI-driven purchase intent so rarely becomes a completed sale

Why AI-driven purchase intent so rarely becomes a completed sale

Presented by Rezolve AiWhen an AI assistant recommends a product or brand, it generates something valuable: a purchase-ready consumer with high intent and low friction in their decision. That consumer has already compared options, asked follow-up questions, and arrived at a conclusion. They want to buy.What they encounter next is a commerce infrastructure that was … Read more

Honda Invests in Quemix to Advance Quantum Computing Applications for Materials Research

Honda Invests in Quemix to Advance Quantum Computing Applications for Materials Research

Insider Brief Quemix has received an investment from Honda Motor to accelerate the development and practical deployment of quantum computing technologies. The companies have previously collaborated on quantum computing research, including quantum state readout technology and quantum algorithms for accelerating density functional theory calculations. Quemix plans to apply its quantum algorithm technologies to materials development, … Read more

Cuba-Based Team Builds Open Platform Aimed at Making Quantum Computing Easier to Use

Cuba-Based Team Builds Open Platform Aimed at Making Quantum Computing Easier to Use

Insider Brief Cuba-based Quantum Computing Open Lab is developing an open software platform designed to make quantum computing tools easier to use across different hardware and software systems. QCOL has built a functional browser-based prototype that combines visual circuit design, code editing, educational tools and support for multiple quantum programming frameworks. The early-stage team is … Read more

QuSecure Adds Post-Quantum Cryptography Platform to Carahsoft GSA Schedule

QuSecure Adds Post-Quantum Cryptography Platform to Carahsoft GSA Schedule

Insider Brief QuSecure’s QuProtect R3 post-quantum cryptography platform has been added to Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule contract, expanding access for U.S. government customers. The partnership aims to help government agencies adopt cryptographic agility and prepare systems for post-quantum security requirements. QuProtect R3 provides cryptographic discovery, remediation and reporting capabilities designed to support migration to quantum-resistant encryption … Read more

Can Quantum Save Democracy? Quantum Voting Experiments Put Ballot Secrecy and Election Security to the Test

Can Quantum Save Democracy? Quantum Voting Experiments Put Ballot Secrecy and Election Security to the Test

Insider Brief Three recent experiments show how quantum technology could protect ballot secrecy and help verify election integrity, moving quantum voting from theoretical protocols into laboratory demonstrations. Two experiments used entangled photons for elections involving up to eight voters, while a third demonstrated a two-voter quantum voting system across 50 kilometers of optical fiber. Major … Read more

World Quantum Cannes Festival to Bring Quantum Industry Leaders Together in November

World Quantum Cannes Festival to Bring Quantum Industry Leaders Together in November

Insider Brief The inaugural World Quantum Cannes Festival will bring more than 100 quantum industry and business speakers to Cannes, France, on November 17-18. The event will bring together leaders from quantum companies, research institutions, universities, investors, analysts, government and enterprise. The festival will include a Top Executive Program offering 100 C-suite executives complimentary attendance … Read more

Guest Post: US Quantum Resilience Clock Just Became Operational

Guest Post: US Quantum Resilience Clock Just Became Operational

Guest Post Yoon Auh, Founder of BOLTS Technologies Many people still think quantum computing is a research story that belongs in university labs or national research programs. They picture breakthrough machines arriving sometime in the distant future before anyone needs to react. Executive Order 14412 changes that thinking because it replaces speculation with deadlines. The … Read more

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Enable Photonic IC Design on InP-on-Silicon Platform

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Enable Photonic IC Design on InP-on-Silicon Platform

Insider Brief OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor announced the availability of a photonic Process Design Kit (PDK) for Tower’s PH18DA InP-on-silicon photonics platform within Cadence EDA tools. The collaboration enables customers to design photonic integrated circuits using OpenLight’s photonics IP and Tower’s manufacturing platform in a standard semiconductor design environment. The PH18DA platform targets applications including … Read more

LTX-2.5 can generate a 10-second AI video from an image in just 6.8 seconds on Nvidia superchips — and it’s open weights

LTX-2.5 can generate a 10-second AI video from an image in just 6.8 seconds on Nvidia superchips — and it’s open weights

LTX, the open world model company spun out of Lightricks, today released LTX-2.5, the newest version of its open-weights video and “world” model and it arrives natively integrated into ComfyUI, the node-based workflow tool that has become the de facto prototyping environment for open generative media, through a strategic day-one launch partnership between the two … Read more

Your AI agent may be ready. Your sales motion probably isn’t.

Your AI agent may be ready. Your sales motion probably isn’t.

Presented by SalesforceInterested buyers don’t generate revenue. Live customers do. That’s the lesson I keep drawing from watching hundreds of ISV partnerships navigate the agent economy over the last 18 months.The companies pulling ahead aren’t winning on features. They’re winning because customers can move from discovery to live deployment in hours, while competitors are still … Read more