You spend weeks tuning an AI chatbot. Answers are accurate. Stakeholders sign off, and you ship it. Three months later, the system is confidently wrong about a third of what users ask. Nobody changed the model, and nobody touched the prompts. The world moved, pricing changed, a policy updated, a product spec shipped a new … Read more
OpenAI has announced Presence, a new enterprise product for deploying and managing AI agents across customer-facing and internal business workflows. The offering is designed for eligible enterprise customers that want agents to answer questions, access company systems, take approved actions and escalate to human workers while operating under company-defined policies, permissions and evaluation standards.Presence is … Read more
Insider Brief Infleqtion has secured three U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission projects focused on quantum computing, quantum sensing, and AI-driven scientific research. The projects involve collaborations with Argonne, Brookhaven, and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories, along with the University of Colorado Boulder, across nuclear, sensing, and fusion energy applications. The initiatives aim to explore how … Read more
Insider Brief Researchers have developed Quantum Elastic Weight Consolidation (QEWC), a new quantum machine learning framework that uses the geometry of quantum states to reduce catastrophic forgetting as models learn new tasks sequentially. The framework replaces measurement-dependent Classical Fisher Information with Quantum Fisher Information to identify which quantum circuit parameters should be preserved during training, … Read more
Insider Brief BTQ Technologies’ QPerfect subsidiary has partnered with the University of Strasbourg to develop a digital twin of France’s aQCess neutral-atom quantum computing platform. The collaboration will use QPerfect’s MIMIQ simulation platform to create a hardware-accurate model of the aQCess processor for testing and validating quantum workloads. The project aims to support open access … Read more
Insider Brief Keyfactor has expanded its Global Partner Program to help partners deliver cryptographic security, crypto-agility, and post-quantum cryptography readiness services. The program provides partners with new training, certification, cloud ecosystem support, and resources to build quantum-ready digital trust services. Keyfactor aims to help organizations address growing cryptographic challenges driven by artificial intelligence adoption, machine … Read more
Insider Brief Quantum Computing Inc. has appointed Susan Hunt as Chief Revenue Officer and moved former CRO Pouya Dianat into the newly created Chief Product Officer role. Hunt will lead QCi’s global revenue strategy and commercial expansion, while Dianat will oversee product strategy and commercialization efforts. The leadership changes are intended to strengthen QCi’s commercial … Read more
Insider Brief PsiQuantum has signed an expanded $125 million agreement with DARPA under the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, remaining one of two companies in the program’s final Stage C to validate its pathway toward utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. The performance-based award will fund expanded testing of PsiQuantum‘s hardware, software, system architecture and infrastructure, including investments at … Read more
Insider Brief The U.S. Department of Energy has selected 278 projects for award negotiations under its Genesis Mission to develop AI-enabled scientific workflows aimed at accelerating research in energy, discovery science and national security. The selected portfolio includes projects led by national laboratories, universities, companies and nonprofit organizations, with research spanning areas such as nuclear … Read more
Insider Brief Zhongqi Wuliang unveiled a server-form-factor neutral atom quantum computer at WAIC 2026, aiming to make quantum systems deployable in standard data center racks rather than specialized laboratory environments. The Shanghai startup, incubated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences‘ Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, says its neutral atom architecture offers a scalable … Read more