Enterprise companies are running AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they deployed that way knowingly. That is the central finding from VentureBeat Research’s June survey of 573 technical leaders at companies with 100 or more employees, fielded across five parallel surveys of the agentic stack. Enterprises are now retrofitting to … Read more
Enterprise AI teams are giving agents more freedom at the same moment their confidence in automated testing is collapsing.Half of enterprises have deployed an AI agent or LLM feature that passed internal evaluations and yet still caused a customer-facing failure — one in four more than once — according to the June 2026 VB Pulse … Read more
Insider Brief This guide examines the state of diamond NV-centre quantum technology in 2026, highlighting leading companies, commercial applications, and the technology’s current maturity. Diamond NV technology has achieved the greatest commercial success in quantum sensing, while quantum computing applications remain at an earlier stage of development with limited qubit counts. The article profiles companies … Read more
Insider Brief QC Design has published a paper describing Plaquette, its hardware-aware software platform for designing and evaluating fault-tolerant quantum computers. Plaquette models real hardware imperfections directly, allowing developers to estimate logical error rates without relying solely on simplified Pauli noise approximations. The framework was validated across superconducting, neutral-atom, and trapped-ion hardware models and is … Read more
Insider Brief NordLocker has rebuilt its encrypted cloud storage platform with a new journaling architecture designed to improve performance while preparing for future post-quantum cryptography adoption. The new engine delivers faster file operations, removes locker-based storage limitations, and introduces more flexible file organization and sharing capabilities. The architecture isolates quantum-sensitive cryptography into a dedicated layer, … Read more
Insider Brief BTQ Technologies and ICTK have completed the design of a next-generation QCIM security chip combining post-quantum cryptography capabilities with PUF-based hardware authentication. The chip is designed to provide secure device identity, cryptographic acceleration, and quantum-resistant security features for connected devices, AI systems, and critical infrastructure. The companies are preparing for production validation after … Read more
The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable model from it still means training a new one from scratch for every dataset, then maintaining hyperparameter tuning loops, feature engineering, and retraining pipelines to fight data drift. Google Research is proposing a … Read more
Insider Brief SEALSQ and Quobly have signed a $5 million commercial agreement to integrate post-quantum security technologies into Quobly’s silicon-based quantum computing platform. The agreement expands the companies’ existing partnership by incorporating secure semiconductors, Root-of-Trust technologies, post-quantum cryptography, and engineering services into future quantum computing systems. The collaboration aims to strengthen the security of next-generation … Read more
Insider Brief Google researchers demonstrated an AI system that continuously learns from quantum error-correction data to keep a quantum computer calibrated while it is running, reducing interruptions and improving reliability. The reinforcement learning approach reduced logical error rates by about 20% beyond conventional calibration and made performance 3.5 times more stable under artificially introduced hardware … Read more
Insider Brief Google opened academic research awards focused on quantum algorithms for early fault-tolerant quantum computers and quantum computing security. The program seeks proposals that reduce logical qubit, gate and error-correction requirements while showing a credible advantage over classical computing. Awards will generally provide up to $100,000, with applications due Aug. 7 and decisions expected … Read more