Insider Brief Northwestern University researchers demonstrated that entangled photons can be distributed over a 24.4-kilometer metropolitan fiber-optic link while the same cable simultaneously carried high-capacity commercial internet traffic, supporting the feasibility of quantum networks on existing telecommunications infrastructure. By transmitting quantum signals in the optical O-band, separating them from conventional C-band traffic, and using precise … Read more

Insider Brief Shanghai-based Taiyi Quantum has raised RMB 300 million (about US$42 million) in a Pre-A financing round to accelerate development of its ytterbium neutral-atom quantum computing platform and advance toward fault-tolerant quantum computers. Founded in January 2026, the company is building scalable neutral-atom systems based on ytterbium atoms and aims to complete its first … Read more

When Hugging Face got hit last week, co-founder Clement Delangue suspected a frontier lab, given the agent’s sophistication. He was right. Delangue said on X that after a day working with OpenAI he strongly believed there was no malicious intent and that it was mind-blowing the whole thing had happened autonomously.The two OpenAI models that … Read more

You spend weeks tuning an AI chatbot. Answers are accurate. Stakeholders sign off, and you ship it. Three months later, the system is confidently wrong about a third of what users ask. Nobody changed the model, and nobody touched the prompts. The world moved, pricing changed, a policy updated, a product spec shipped a new … Read more

OpenAI has announced Presence, a new enterprise product for deploying and managing AI agents across customer-facing and internal business workflows. The offering is designed for eligible enterprise customers that want agents to answer questions, access company systems, take approved actions and escalate to human workers while operating under company-defined policies, permissions and evaluation standards.Presence is … Read more

Insider Brief Infleqtion has secured three U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission projects focused on quantum computing, quantum sensing, and AI-driven scientific research. The projects involve collaborations with Argonne, Brookhaven, and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories, along with the University of Colorado Boulder, across nuclear, sensing, and fusion energy applications. The initiatives aim to explore how … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers have developed Quantum Elastic Weight Consolidation (QEWC), a new quantum machine learning framework that uses the geometry of quantum states to reduce catastrophic forgetting as models learn new tasks sequentially. The framework replaces measurement-dependent Classical Fisher Information with Quantum Fisher Information to identify which quantum circuit parameters should be preserved during training, … Read more

Insider Brief BTQ Technologies’ QPerfect subsidiary has partnered with the University of Strasbourg to develop a digital twin of France’s aQCess neutral-atom quantum computing platform. The collaboration will use QPerfect’s MIMIQ simulation platform to create a hardware-accurate model of the aQCess processor for testing and validating quantum workloads. The project aims to support open access … Read more

Insider Brief Keyfactor has expanded its Global Partner Program to help partners deliver cryptographic security, crypto-agility, and post-quantum cryptography readiness services. The program provides partners with new training, certification, cloud ecosystem support, and resources to build quantum-ready digital trust services. Keyfactor aims to help organizations address growing cryptographic challenges driven by artificial intelligence adoption, machine … Read more

Insider Brief Quantum Computing Inc. has appointed Susan Hunt as Chief Revenue Officer and moved former CRO Pouya Dianat into the newly created Chief Product Officer role. Hunt will lead QCi’s global revenue strategy and commercial expansion, while Dianat will oversee product strategy and commercialization efforts. The leadership changes are intended to strengthen QCi’s commercial … Read more