Insider Brief Col. Reginald M. Harris, a retired U.S. Army officer and former Chief of Staff of U.S. Army Cyber Command, has joined Qtonic Quantum to lead its federal and defense government affairs. Harris will represent Qtonic Quantum across the Department of War, military commands, DHS, the Intelligence Community, federal agencies, defense contractors and systems … Read more
Insider Brief The sixth annual City Quantum & AI Summit will bring leaders from technology, defense, finance, government and research to London’s Mansion House on Oct. 7. The program will examine quantum and AI applications and risks across cybersecurity, finance, life sciences, space and national security. The summit will emphasize plain-language discussions, cross-sector networking and … Read more
Insider Brief Meissner raised $2.6 million in pre-seed financing to develop superconducting materials for quantum computing, fusion energy and other applications. The startup combines machine learning, quantum simulations and laboratory testing to identify materials that could operate at higher temperatures and with fewer performance problems. Meissner plans to begin testing its leading material candidates at … Read more
When large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, developers typically assume the model lacks the required facts. Engineering teams diagnose the error as missing knowledge. The standard response is to increase model size, expand training data, or build complex retrieval architectures.A new study by researchers at Google Research and Technion demonstrates that the knowledge is often not … Read more
Insider Brief Symmatrics has launched the voluntary AI & Post-Quantum Readiness Pledge, bringing organizations together to commit to steps toward stronger cryptographic resilience. The pledge asks signatories to inventory cryptographic assets, assess harvest-now-decrypt-later risks, develop NIST-aligned PQC migration plans, engage suppliers and report progress to leadership or boards. The initiative launched with 10 founding signatories … Read more
Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He built an agent himself. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran.His Azure OpenAI email assistant auto-resolves about 60% … Read more
It’s only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The two names refer to the same underlying model. Fable … Read more
Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier models running in the cloud and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs — routing sensitive data to the local machine so it never leaves the device.The company says it … Read more
Presented by SAPHR tracks employees and skills. Finance owns headcount targets and cost. Procurement manages contractors and services spend. Together, they leave executives unable to answer basic questions about how workforce decisions actually translate into business outcomes.Fragmented planning creates workforce blind spotsEach function has its own systems, its own planning cadence, and its own assumptions … Read more
Insider Brief Arqit Quantum, Es’hailSat and AIEE demonstrated quantum-safe encryption across operational satellite communications infrastructure in Qatar. The demonstration integrated Arqit’s encryption technology into Es’hailSat’s live satellite environment at its 25.5/26° East hotspot and Tier-4 certified Teleport facility in Doha. The companies said the test showed quantum-safe protection could be added to existing satellite-connected networks … Read more