Quantinuum to Report Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results on August 11

Quantinuum to Report Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results on August 11

Insider Brief Quantinuum will release its second quarter 2026 financial results after market close on August 11, 2026. The company will host a conference call the same day to discuss its financial results and business outlook. A replay of the webcast will be available on Quantinuum’s investor relations website following the call. Press release – … Read more

Hong Kong Banks Face Long Road to Quantum Security, White Paper Finds

Hong Kong Banks Face Long Road to Quantum Security, White Paper Finds

Insider Brief A Hong Kong Monetary Authority-supported white paper found that most banks in Hong Kong recognize the strategic importance of quantum computing but remain in the early stages of preparing for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The report identifies quantum-enabled cyber threats, including “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” attacks, as an immediate concern and recommends that banks … Read more

Kimi K3’s full weights are here, but they’re ‘open’ with a caveat: What enterprises should know

Kimi K3’s full weights are here, but they’re ‘open’ with a caveat: What enterprises should know

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, creators of the increasingly famous “Kimi K” family of powerful, open AI models, today released the full weights for its largest and most performant version yet — Kimi K3. But enterprises evaluating the model should read the attached custom Kimi K3 usage license as carefully as the benchmark charts.VentureBeat previously … Read more

Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs

Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs

Microsoft opened a new front in the AI security wars on Monday, unveiling its first custom-built cybersecurity model and a sweeping agentic defense platform — and making an argument that could reshape how enterprises buy AI: the future belongs not to the biggest model, but to the cheapest one that’s good enough, routed intelligently.The company … Read more

Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search

Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search

Over the weekend, Reddit user -void1 posted an alarming discovery on the r/ClaudeAI subreddit: some conversations that users of Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot had made “shareable” via a link were being indexed by Google Search, and could be clicked on and accessed by seemingly anyone.The conversation took off on the social networks X and Reddit, … Read more

Applications Open for Tennessee Quantum Hackathon Focused on Energy Applications

Applications Open for Tennessee Quantum Hackathon Focused on Energy Applications

Insider Brief Applications have opened for the Tennessee Quantum Hackathon, a 36-hour event where students will explore quantum technology applications for challenges in the electric power sector. The hackathon will bring together students, universities, utilities, research institutions, and quantum companies to develop and test quantum-based solutions using the qBraid platform. The event is part of … Read more

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Will Build New Hybrid Quantum-Classical Supercomputer

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Will Build New Hybrid Quantum-Classical Supercomputer

Insider Brief The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has received a $5 million National Science Foundation grant to build TangleLab, a hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing testbed in partnership with HPE and Rigetti Computing, with operations expected to begin in 2027. TangleLab will integrate a Rigetti Novera quantum processing unit with HPE high-performance computing, storage, and networking systems to … Read more

D-Wave and AT&T Explore Quantum Computing Applications in Network Operations

D-Wave and AT&T Explore Quantum Computing Applications in Network Operations

Insider Brief D-Wave and AT&T have signed an agreement to expand the use of D-Wave’s quantum computing technology for network optimization applications. AT&T has used D-Wave’s annealing quantum computing technology in an optimization workload that reduced processing time from about one hour to less than 15 seconds. The companies plan to explore additional applications including … Read more

QTREX and Northeastern University Launch Quantum Interconnect Research Collaboration

QTREX and Northeastern University Launch Quantum Interconnect Research Collaboration

Insider Brief QTREX has launched a research collaboration with Northeastern University to develop advanced cryogenic quantum interconnect technologies for quantum computing infrastructure. The collaboration will investigate micro-system structures, interconnect designs, and materials for cryogenic quantum environments while generating experimental data for future connectivity solutions. Under the agreement, QTREX receives a first option to negotiate a … Read more