Microsoft AI chief says company was “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence

Microsoft AI chief says company was “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence

For three years, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence story has been inseparable from OpenAI. The partnership — cemented by a cumulative investment exceeding $13 billion — gave Microsoft early access to the most advanced AI models on the planet, catapulting its Copilot products into the enterprise mainstream and adding hundreds of billions of dollars to its market … Read more

Microsoft’s AI Futurist explains how he uses Copilot — and the real-world problems enterprises are solving with agents

Microsoft’s AI Futurist explains how he uses Copilot — and the real-world problems enterprises are solving with agents

Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference this week to push a clear message: agents are rapidly moving into production throughout enterprise systems, and the winning platform will be the one that gives them reliable context, governance, identity, memory — and secure access to enterprise data. The company announced Microsoft IQ as a context layer across … Read more

AI agents are learning on the job — just not for your whole team

AI agents are learning on the job — just not for your whole team

When someone on a team corrects an AI agent — better prompts, better feedback, better context — that improvement disappears the moment a colleague opens the same tool. The correction doesn’t transfer, and the next person starts from zero.The problem compounds in multi-agent workflows, where teams expect agents to share context across users and tasks. … Read more

SEALSQ Broadens Quantum Computing and Post-Quantum Security Strategy

SEALSQ Broadens Quantum Computing and Post-Quantum Security Strategy

Insider Brief SEALSQ has expanded its quantum strategy through investments in multiple quantum computing companies while continuing to develop post-quantum semiconductor and security products. The company is pursuing a multi-modality investment approach spanning several quantum hardware architectures rather than focusing on a single qubit technology. SEALSQ said it aims to connect its post-quantum security portfolio … Read more

The Companies Building Quantum Computing Chips in 2026

The Companies Building Quantum Computing Chips in 2026

Insider Brief Quantum computing hardware remains divided across multiple competing chip modalities in 2026, with no single approach establishing clear dominance. Major companies are advancing superconducting, trapped-ion, photonic, neutral-atom, silicon spin qubit, and annealing architectures, each with distinct technical advantages and manufacturing challenges. The industry continues to invest across several hardware approaches as researchers and … Read more

Scientists Identify the Origin of Noise in Spin Qubit Quantum Processors

Scientists Identify the Origin of Noise in Spin Qubit Quantum Processors

Insider Brief Researchers from Tokyo University of Science and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology identified charge-noise mechanisms that cause frequency shifts in silicon spin qubits and demonstrated why operating at 200 millikelvin can improve quantum gate fidelity. Using large-scale simulations of charge noise from two-level fluctuators, the team found that experimentally observed … Read more

Chinese Scientists Demonstrate Quantum Random Access Memory Architecture Aimed at Solving Data Bottleneck

Chinese Scientists Demonstrate Quantum Random Access Memory Architecture Aimed at Solving Data Bottleneck

Insider Brief Researchers at Zhejiang University experimentally demonstrated a quantum random access memory (QRAM) architecture on a superconducting quantum processor, a step toward improving how quantum computers access classical data. The team implemented four-bit and eight-bit QRAM systems using a bucket-brigade architecture, achieving query fidelities of up to about 81% and 60%, respectively, according to … Read more

Classiq and UC Chile Launch Quantum Computing Research for Biomedical Imaging

Classiq and UC Chile Launch Quantum Computing Research for Biomedical Imaging

Insider Brief Classiq and UC Chile have launched a 12-month research project to develop hybrid quantum machine learning algorithms for biomedical image analysis and computational pathology. The project will focus initially on renal pathology applications, including kidney lesion classification, glomerular segmentation, and pattern recognition in histological images. Researchers will use Classiq’s software platform, NVIDIA CUDA-Q, … Read more