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Insider Brief The Jane Goodall Institute USA and FormationQ have launched a two-year research partnership using IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum computing to study why chimpanzees engage in lethal intergroup conflict while bonobos generally coexist peacefully, marking what the organizations describe as a first application of quantum-enhanced computing to this area of behavioral ecology. The project will … Read more

Insider Brief Q-PLANET, a €50 million European Quantum Chip Stability Pilot Line coordinated by Pasqal, has begun its work to advance industrial-grade components for neutral atom quantum technologies. The €50 million initiative brings together 28 organizations across 11 EU Member States to develop scalable manufacturing processes for quantum components. The project will focus on producing … Read more

Insider Brief Imec and Diraq demonstrated coherent operation and readout of an eight-qubit silicon MOS spin-qubit array fabricated on a 300mm CMOS-compatible technology platform. The demonstration extends previous silicon spin-qubit results by showing that larger qubit arrays can be developed while maintaining coherence and controllability. The research highlights a potential pathway for manufacturing scalable quantum … Read more

Model routing is becoming a key component of the enterprise AI stack, dynamically sending prompts to the right AI model to optimize speed and costs. However, current frameworks mostly treat routing as a static classification problem, which severely limits their potential.A new open-source framework called Agent-as-a-Router tackles this bottleneck, treating the router as a dynamic, … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and the German Aerospace Center showed that quantum mechanics can be formulated using real numbers under an alternative set of physical assumptions. The study challenges earlier conclusions that complex numbers are fundamentally required for quantum mechanics while producing predictions indistinguishable from standard quantum theory. The research was … Read more

Insider Brief Nord Quantique published research demonstrating quantum error correction of a single-mode grid state qubit with state preparation and measurement errors below 0.1%. The company’s approach uses a repeat-until-success stabilization protocol to improve state preparation fidelity while supporting its bosonic quantum computing architecture. The results address a key challenge for GKP-based systems and support … Read more

Insider Brief Japanese neutral-atom quantum computing startup Yaqumo raised a seed extension round from JIC Venture Growth Investments and Toyota Invention Partners to support commercialization and long-term growth. The investment represents the first quantum computing hardware investment for JIC VGI and the first quantum computing startup investment for Toyota Invention Partners. Yaqumo said the new … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers developed a hybrid quantum-classical AI system that designed immune-targeting peptides, with quantum-generated inputs improving peptide discovery for understudied HLA variants and producing laboratory-validated binders. The quantum-enhanced model generated more predicted strong-binding peptides than conventional approaches, with the largest improvements occurring for HLA variants that have limited training data. The researchers caution that … Read more

Insider Brief Israeli quantum computing companies Quantum Art and Classiq are reportedly in advanced talks to go public on Wall Street through SPAC mergers that could value each company between $2 billion and $5 billion. Quantum Art is developing trapped-ion quantum hardware, while Classiq builds quantum software and has partnerships and customers that include Nvidia, … Read more

DeepSeek’s recent decision to drastically cut pricing on its V4-Pro model by 75% should have been unequivocally good news for enterprise AI vendors and developers. Instead, many are discovering that cheaper models don’t automatically translate into healthier margins.The reason is simple: While inference costs plummet, agent systems are voraciously consuming tokens faster than prices are declining. … Read more