Insider Brief Assistant Professor Han Zhao is developing a new method that uses tiny mechanical vibrations and superconducting systems to make quantum operations more resistant to noise and errors, addressing one of the biggest challenges in quantum computing. Supported by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Zhao’s research uses a … Read more
Insider Brief Shanghai has launched a quantum computing industrial hub with 26 founding companies, funding programs and subsidies aimed at accelerating commercialization and industry growth. The incubation zone will provide up to 100 million yuan for research and innovation, up to 20 million yuan for companies developing first products, and computing subsidies to reduce development … Read more
Insider Brief Archer Materials signed a three-year Quantum Compute Agreement with IonQ to access IonQ’s cloud platform and explore deploying a sovereign quantum computer in Australia. The collaboration will support quantum algorithm development and customer applications across sectors including defence, artificial intelligence, mining, healthcare and scientific research. Archer will pay IonQ US$1.5 million over the … Read more
Insider Brief TU Wien researchers found evidence of high multipartite quantum entanglement in a centimetre-sized strange-metal crystal made of cerium, palladium and silicon. The team used quantum Fisher information and neutron-scattering measurements to show that the material’s response could not be explained by independent particles and involved groups of at least nine entangled entities. The … Read more
Z.ai, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, on Wednesday officially launched ZCode, a free desktop application it describes as an “Agentic Development Environment” purpose-built for its flagship GLM-5.2 large language model. The move marks the company’s most aggressive push yet into the fast-growing AI-powered coding tool market, where it now competes … Read more
AI portfolios are expanding far faster than the ability to govern them across enterprises. Most organizations run a contested field of platforms, each claiming to be the “primary” AI layer; few could confidently detect a model drifting or failing in production; and the single most-cited barrier to control is the absence of any one owner … Read more
Square is launching a new ChatGPT app and Claude plugin, enabling consumers to discover restaurants and seamlessly place orders directly within these AI platforms — and allowing restaurants, in turn, to accept orders from users and their AI agents without any technical capabilities. Even more helpfully for businesses, Square is processing these AI-driven transactions without … Read more
Insider Brief Quantum Leap Acquisition Corp. completed a $230 million IPO and began trading as a public SPAC seeking a potential acquisition in AI, quantum computing or blockchain. The company sold 23 million units at $10 each after underwriters fully exercised their 3 million-unit over-allotment option. Quantum Leap’s Class A shares and warrants began trading … Read more
Insider Brief Classiq and QAI have signed a commercial agreement to launch South Korea’s first locally operated Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS) offering. The service combines Classiq‘s quantum software platform with QAI’s domestic AI data center infrastructure to support quantum application development and execution across multiple hardware platforms. The partnership will also develop localized support, customer education, and … Read more
Insider Brief The NSA’s Laboratory for Physical Sciences and the U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Office have launched the QuantumEAGLe initiative to strengthen the U.S. quantum computing ecosystem and accelerate commercial and research progress. The initiative focuses on industry collaboration, commercial roadmaps, domestic supply chains, quantum algorithms, error correction, and foundational quantum research. QuantumEAGLe will … Read more