Insider Brief Classiq and TEA TEK Group have signed a multi-million-euro partnership to establish a quantum computing hub in Naples aimed at serving research, industry and public-sector users across Italy and Europe. The hub will combine quantum hardware with Classiq’s software platform and is expected to launch Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS) offerings by the end of 2026. … Read more
Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-AgentWorld on Tuesday — two models trained not to act inside agent environments, but to predict what those environments return. The release covers seven domains under a single architecture: MCP, Search, Terminal, Software Engineering, Android, Web, and OS. The release extends Alibaba’s recent push into autonomous agents. Qwen3.7-Max, released in May, … Read more
As enterprise AI agents take on increasingly complex, long-horizon tasks, their performance is often restricted by their harness, the software scaffolding that connects the backbone LLM to its environment. Currently, harnesses are largely static and hand-crafted. Improving them is largely manual and they do not automatically improve based on the execution data they collect from their … Read more
Drug discovery is notoriously inefficient. Pharmaceutical projects span years, moving from one specialized human team to the next through disconnected workflows that result in knowledge loss during each handoff. A shocking 90% to 95% of drug discovery projects reportedly fail — one of the highest failure rates of any industry. A single successful drug can take … Read more
OpenAI and Broadcom this morning unveiled their first custom AI accelerator chip named “Jalapeño,” positioning it is as a purpose-built processor for large language model (LLM) inference, rather than the more general GPUs offered by the likes of Nvidia or AMD. According to its creators, Jalapeño is designed to support workloads behind ChatGPT, Codex, the … Read more
Insider Brief The U.S. National Science Foundation has selected five additional teams for the National Quantum Virtual Laboratory program, providing $20 million in total funding to advance quantum computing, networking and sensing technologies. Each team will receive $4 million over two years to develop plans for experimental quantum systems and prepare for a future implementation … Read more
Insider Brief STMicroelectronics has introduced the ST54M, a secure mobile chip that combines NFC, secure element, eSIM functionality and a hardware accelerator for post-quantum cryptography. The chip is designed to help smartphone and connected-device manufacturers prepare for future quantum-resistant security requirements while supporting services such as payments, digital identity and digital car keys. ST54M supports … Read more
Insider Brief Bull and Alice & Bob have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their collaboration across research, software, product development, and commercial deployment of quantum technologies. The partnership will focus on integrating Alice & Bob’s cat-qubit systems into high-performance computing environments and enhancing Bull’s Qaptiva software platform for quantum-HPC workflows. Bull has been … Read more
Insider Brief Quantum Elements and USC published a peer-reviewed Quantum Monte Carlo algorithm in Physical Review Letters that provides a more efficient classical method for simulating noisy quantum circuits. The algorithm compresses noisy quantum-circuit simulations while preserving dynamics relevant to quantum error correction, correlated noise and decoder performance. Quantum Elements said the method supports its … Read more
Customer expectations have shifted from simple, fast conversational interactions to complex agentic AI-powered tasks that legacy IT architectures simply can’t handle. To address this, Intuit made the bold decision to overhaul its technical infrastructure for its business platform. The company moved away from its multi-agent setup, which prioritized broad capabilities, to a granular, skill-and-tool-based architecture while … Read more