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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

Insider Brief PsiQuantum appointed Atomico founder and CEO Niklas Zennström to its Board of Directors as the company continues developing its large-scale quantum computing platform. Zennström brings experience as a technology founder, investor, and board member, including co-founding Skype and leading Atomico’s investments in technology companies. The appointment follows additional leadership changes at PsiQuantum as … Read more

Insider Brief Berkeley Lab researchers observed a tunable Bose-Einstein condensate of excitons in an atomically thin semiconductor, creating a controllable platform for studying quantum fluids in solid materials. The exciton condensate persisted up to about 2 Kelvin and could be tuned electrically, overcoming key limitations of short-lived, optically generated excitons. Researchers found the condensate has … Read more

Insider Brief Morgan Stanley launched the U.S. Innovation Infrastructure Initiative, a program aimed at supporting companies and infrastructure projects across strategic technology sectors. The initiative plans to facilitate approximately $1.5 trillion in capital raising, financing, advisory, and investment activity over the next 10 years. The program will focus on areas including quantum technology, artificial intelligence, … Read more

Insider Brief Qunnect and Monarch Quantum announced a partnership to develop deployable and manufacturable quantum networking hardware for commercial, industrial, and defense applications. The collaboration combines Qunnect’s entanglement-based quantum networking systems with Monarch Quantum’s photonic engineering and manufacturing capabilities. The companies plan to develop more compact versions of Qunnect’s Carina platform to support quantum networking … Read more

Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research and exploit development for approved defenders — including categories of work that its general-purpose models will often refuse.GPT-5.6-Cyber is a fine-tuned version of OpenAI’s most advanced general model, GPT-5.6 Sol, unveiled back in June, but trained specifically to improve performance on … Read more

Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest rivals — and in doing so, it is making a bold bet that controlling the security layer matters more than controlling the model.AWS announced at Black Hat USA 2026 this month that its Continuum platform … Read more

Insider Brief Quantum Computing Inc. reported $5.6 million in second-quarter revenue, largely driven by acquired businesses, as it continued to expand its quantum, photonics and semiconductor operations. The company posted a $23 million operating loss and a $1.2 million gross loss, while its $1.3 billion in cash and investments generated nearly $13 million in interest … Read more

Meta today released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model designed to run autonomous AI agents directly on consumer hardware — pushing agentic workloads that normally depend on cloud infrastructure onto high-end Macs and PCs.Just as notable as what the model does is how it’s licensed. Glimmer arrives under the permissive, industry-standard Apache 2.0 open source … Read more

Insider Brief Hefei Sizhen Chip Technology and researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China reported an on-chip photonic quantum computing demonstration using programmable silicon photonic chips. The team reported generating a 4-photon 16-qubit GHZ state and a single-photon 4-qubit cluster state using a measurement-based quantum computing approach. The research explores how high-dimensional … Read more