Presented by SAP At VB Transform 2026, Max McPhee, senior solution advisor at SAP, spoke with Rob Stretchay, lead analyst at VentureBeat Research, about what it takes for enterprises to move beyond chatbots to autonomous AI agents that can execute real business processes. He argued that the difference comes down to grounding those agents in … Read more
Insider Brief Multiverse Computing has raised a $570 million Series C funding round at a $1.7 billion pre-money valuation to accelerate deployment of its AI model compression platform, CompactifAI, and expand its efficient AI infrastructure globally. The company’s CompactifAI technology applies tensor network methods derived from quantum physics to compress large language models by 80–95% … Read more
Insider Brief Researchers experimentally identified previously unexplored long-lived metastable states in ytterbium ions, with measured lifetimes of about 1 second, 10 seconds and evidence of a state lasting more than 30 seconds. The newly characterized states could improve trapped-ion quantum computers and atomic clocks by enabling more efficient qubit and qudit state detection, particularly through … Read more
Insider Brief A coalition of researchers from leading universities, national laboratories and quantum technology companies has published an industry-wide roadmap outlining the scientific and engineering milestones needed to scale neutral-atom quantum computers toward practical applications. The roadmap identifies advances in larger qubit arrays, integrated photonics, quantum error correction, software, networking and standardized benchmarks as key … Read more
Insider Brief IonQ announced that it will release its second quarter 2026 financial results on August 5, 2026, after market close. The company will host a conference call the same day to discuss financial results and its business outlook. Investors will be able to access the live webcast, conference call, and replay through IonQ’s investor … Read more
Insider Brief Quantum X Labs reported progress on its AI-driven quantum error-correction program using NVIDIA accelerated computing and CUDA-Q QEC software libraries. The company benchmarked its transformer-based QECCT decoder against the classical MWPM decoder in simulated toric-code and surface-code environments. QXL plans to extend testing toward experimental syndrome data from superconducting quantum hardware through its … Read more
Insider Brief Bloq Quantum and QClairvoyance announced a partnership to support quantum education, workforce training, and institutional adoption initiatives. QClairvoyance will serve as a Quantum Skilling Partner, integrating Bloq Quantum’s platforms into training programs, certification initiatives, and academic collaborations. The partnership will also explore joint research, publications, grant activities, and future integration of QClairvoyance algorithms … Read more
Guest Post by By Somtochukwu Igwegbe More than two trillion dollars moved through mobile money worldwide in 2025, and roughly two-thirds of that value flowed through sub-Saharan Africa, according to GSMA’s State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2026. For a fifth of adults in the region, a mobile money account is the only … Read more
Enterprises deployed AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they did it knowingly. That is the central finding across the five parallel surveys VentureBeat Research fielded in June, spanning every layer of the agentic stack. Now those enterprises are retrofitting to catch up with their own standards, and they are … Read more
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, a model the company says delivers nearly all the intelligence of its top-of-the-line Claude Fable 5 at half the cost — a launch that signals how the AI race is shifting from raw capability to the economics of daily use.The model, available immediately on all of Anthropic’s platforms, … Read more