Context compression finally works in production: new research cuts LLM input 16x without the accuracy hit

Context compression finally works in production: new research cuts LLM input 16x without the accuracy hit

Context windows are becoming a computational bottleneck. The longer an agent runs, the more tokens accumulate from retrieved documents, reasoning traces and conversation history, and the more memory and compute that growing context demands. Most existing solutions either degrade model accuracy, require the full context to load before compression begins, or produce memory savings that … Read more

What AI benchmarks miss about real-world performance

What AI benchmarks miss about real-world performance

Presented by F5Enterprise AI teams have spent years solving for compute, securing GPU allocations, negotiating cloud capacity, and benchmarking training throughput. The assumption embedded in that work is that the path between storage and compute will keep up. In production, that assumption increasingly does not hold. Real traffic introduces latency spikes, network jitter, and node … Read more

Firgun Ventures Announces First Australian Investment in Silicon Quantum Computing    

Firgun Ventures Announces First Australian Investment in Silicon Quantum Computing    

Insider Brief Firgun Ventures has made its first Australian investment by backing Silicon Quantum Computing, expanding its portfolio of early-stage quantum companies and signaling continued investor interest in silicon-based quantum technologies. Silicon Quantum Computing says it can manufacture quantum chips with atomic-scale precision and rapidly design, produce and test new chips through its vertically integrated … Read more

EigenQ Appoints Rika Nakazawa as Chief Growth Officer

EigenQ Appoints Rika Nakazawa as Chief Growth Officer

Insider Brief EigenQ has appointed Rika Nakazawa as Chief Growth Officer to lead global growth, partnerships, and market expansion initiatives. Nakazawa previously held leadership roles at NVIDIA, Sony, Accenture, and NTT, and has worked across AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technology sectors. The appointment comes as EigenQ expands its focus on post-quantum cybersecurity, trusted computing infrastructure, … Read more

JIJ And ORCA Computing Report on Path to Commercial Quantum Advantage in Energy Optimization

JIJ And ORCA Computing Report on Path to Commercial Quantum Advantage in Energy Optimization

Insider Brief A new white paper from JIJ Inc., ORCA Computing, bp and the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre shows that hybrid quantum-classical workflows can address industrially relevant energy scheduling problems and may eventually outperform leading classical optimization methods. The study applied JIJ’s optimization software and ORCA Computing’s photonic quantum hardware to the Unit Commitment … Read more

Silicon Quantum Computing Secures Additional AUD$40 Million From Australia’s NRFC

Silicon Quantum Computing Secures Additional AUD Million From Australia’s NRFC

Insider Brief Australia has increased its investment in Silicon Quantum Computing to AUD$60 million, adding AUD$40 million to an initial AUD$20 million commitment announced in March. The additional funding will support the expansion of SQC’s atomically precise quantum chip manufacturing capabilities, including its proprietary Precision Atom Qubit Manufacturing process. The investment aligns with Australia’s broader … Read more

Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500

Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about ,500

Training a foundation LLM from scratch costs millions and requires internet-scale data — which is why most enterprises don’t bother. Sapient thinks it has a cheaper path.To overcome this brute-force scaling dogma, researchers at Sapient developed HRM-Text, which replaces standard Transformers with a highly sample-efficient Hierarchical Recurrent Model (HRM), an architecture they first introduced last … Read more

Surprise upset: GPT-5.5 beats Claude Fable 5 on brutal new Agents’ Last Exam benchmark

Surprise upset: GPT-5.5 beats Claude Fable 5 on brutal new Agents’ Last Exam benchmark

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI), alongside an advisory committee of over 300 domain experts, have launched Agents’ Last Exam (ALE)—a grueling new benchmark built to measure whether artificial intelligence can actually execute economically valuable, long-horizon professional workflows.In a shocking upset, OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 from April, operating through the … Read more