Insider Brief The Trump administration’s new quantum executive order transitions quantum technology from a research priority into a national strategy. Federal agencies are ordered to update the National Quantum Strategy, support the development of a federally backed quantum computer for scientific applications, expand work on quantum sensors and networks and strengthen domestic supply chains. Members … Read more

Insider Brief University of Sydney and IBM researchers identified mid-circuit measurement noise as a key barrier to reliable quantum error correction and showed that redesigned circuits can improve logical qubit performance. Using IBM’s 156-qubit Heron r2 superconducting processor, the team increased logical qubit survival rates from below 90 percent to more than 96 percent per … Read more

Guest Post by Matt Todd and Bryce Bailey Quantum computing has long been discussed as a distant technical ambition. However, recent developments suggest it is closer as a legal issue than we may think. In late 2024, Google announced its “Willow” chip and described a significant error-correction advance. IBM continues to publicize its roadmap toward … Read more

Alibaba Cloud on Sunday released HappyHorse 1.1, a major upgrade to its AI video generation model that the company says delivers production-ready video synthesis across core content creation scenarios. The model is now live on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio with full API access for enterprise customers and developers, accompanied by a 40% sitewide launch discount … Read more

Insider Brief A new executive order directs a comprehensive federal strategy to accelerate quantum technology development while strengthening national security protections and commercialization efforts. It establishes new initiatives including a federally supported quantum computer program, performance benchmarking center, and expanded counterintelligence and workforce development measures. The order integrates quantum computing, sensing, networking, supply chains and … Read more

Insider Brief The Trump administration is expected to issue an executive order directing U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to better protect quantum research from foreign espionage. The pending order would also task the departments of Energy and Defense with building and hosting a quantum computer for scientific research. The directive reflects growing concern that … Read more

Presented by SplunkEvery day, organizations learn things their AI systems never get to use.A security analyst corrects an AI-generated investigation. A network engineer identifies the root cause of a recurring outage. An observability team discovers that a pattern of latency, logs and infrastructure changes predicts service degradation. A customer operations team learns which signals indicate … Read more

Not every company can or should build their own frontier AI language model. However, the harness controlling the model is something that most enterprises can and should customize for their specific purposes.Of course, this is easier said than done. Agent harnesses are still largely tuned through manual, ad hoc debugging — a process that relies … Read more

Presented by SolidigmAs inference workloads evolve from discrete question-and-answer exchanges into persistent, multi-step agentic systems, GPU availability is no longer the most critical AI bottleneck. Instead, the bottleneck has migrated from compute to context, says Jeff Harthorn, AI applied research lead at Solidigm.”Why context management has become a primary bottleneck, more than GPU availability or … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers at National Tsing Hua University developed a room-temperature single-photon source that emits more than 2.3 billion photons per second, setting a new brightness record for this class of quantum devices. The team combined perovskite quantum dots with silver nanocavity structures, achieving ultrafast emission, non-blinking operation, and a 435-fold increase in emission rate. … Read more