Insider Brief Terra Quantum and Apex.AI have demonstrated an implementation of NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography for secure communication between an Apex.AI-based robotic software environment and a cloud control system. The integration applies quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms while maintaining existing software architectures and communication workflows used by connected intelligent systems. The companies said the implementation provides a pathway … Read more

Insider Brief Connecticut Innovations reported a record fiscal year with $66.5 million in cash proceeds from portfolio exits, $76.1 million in total investment activity proceeds, and $59.3 million invested across 75 early-stage companies and venture funds that helped leverage $1.2 billion in additional capital. Major portfolio milestones included Halda Therapeutics’ $3.05 billion acquisition by Johnson … Read more

Guest Post By Sudiptaa Paul Choudhury is Chief Marketing Officer at QNu Labs, a global leader in quantum cybersecurity, TEDx speaker and a LinkedIn Top Voice. Quantum computing has stopped being a laboratory curiosity. McKinsey’s Quantum Technology Monitor 2026 estimates that quantum computing could unlock up to 2.7 trillion US dollars in economic value worldwide … Read more

Insider Brief Bloq Quantum and Sree Buddha College of Engineering (SBCE) have formed a strategic partnership to establish an undergraduate quantum computing hub featuring a cloud-based quantum lab, curriculum integration, faculty training, and research collaboration. The partnership will provide SBCE students with hands-on access to Bloq Quantum’s cloud-based quantum computing platform, along with industry masterclasses, … Read more

Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI’s … Read more

Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. The company announced that GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT desktop application on macOS and Windows, integrating directly with agentic systems like Codex and ChatGPT Work (which … Read more

Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today’s launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlying architecture to robotic vision and actions.The Freiburg, Germany-based … Read more

When Cisco ran 6,986 multi-turn attacks against 15 flagship models, attackers who adapted across the conversation broke through as often as 88.3% of the time. Amy Chang, Cisco’s head of AI threat intelligence and security research, brought that finding to the agentic security panel at VB Transform 2026; the number should worry anyone still running … Read more

Insider Brief The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) and Japan’s Q-STAR have signed an MOU to strengthen collaboration between quantum companies, researchers, and institutions in Illinois and Japan. The partnership will support joint research, technology development, investment connections, and supply chain opportunities for quantum startups and organizations in both regions. The agreement expands ongoing … Read more

At a CISO roundtable organized by Anthropic’s chief information security officer, Dev Rishi asked a simple question: Did everyone in the room have their AI governance and security policies written down? Every hand went up — about 14 people, by his count. His follow-up, about how anyone actually enforces those policies in practice, got a … Read more