Insider Brief The U.S. Department of Energy has selected 278 projects for award negotiations under its Genesis Mission to develop AI-enabled scientific workflows aimed at accelerating research in energy, discovery science and national security. The selected portfolio includes projects led by national laboratories, universities, companies and nonprofit organizations, with research spanning areas such as nuclear … Read more

Insider Brief Zhongqi Wuliang unveiled a server-form-factor neutral atom quantum computer at WAIC 2026, aiming to make quantum systems deployable in standard data center racks rather than specialized laboratory environments. The Shanghai startup, incubated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences‘ Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, says its neutral atom architecture offers a scalable … Read more

Insider Brief Rice University has joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s Quantum Science Center to contribute research on quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing. Rice professor Tirthak Patel will lead a project developing and evaluating quantum error-correction decoding methods on high-performance computing platforms. The research aims to address scalability challenges in quantum error correction … Read more

Insider Brief The Hewlett Foundation launched a five-year, $100 million Emerging Technology and Security Initiative supporting work on AI, biotechnology, and quantum computing security. The initiative will fund research and organizations focused on critical infrastructure protection, emerging technology risks, and governance frameworks. Quantum computing is one of the technologies the program aims to address as … Read more

Insider Brief Quantinuum and SoftBank have published a white paper outlining how advances in quantum hardware and algorithms could influence the commercial readiness of quantum chemistry and graph analytics applications. The analysis maps two application areas already being researched by SoftBank on Quantinuum’s systems—materials and energy research through quantum chemistry, and large-scale graph analytics for … Read more

Guest Post By Jithesh Mithra, Independent Researcher, Jacksonville, Florida Here is a result that should not happen. Take a quantum error correction (QEC) code, fix the physical error rate, and ask a simple question. Does adding more qubits make it work better? Under a single noise assumption, the answer would be yes. However under a … Read more

Insider Brief Main Sequence Ventures has promoted Alejandra Romero to Principal, reinforcing its investment focus on advanced computing hardware, semiconductors, quantum technologies and AI infrastructure. Since joining the firm in 2023, Romero has led investments in companies including Q-CTRL, Diraq and Quantum Brilliance, co-authored Main Sequence’s Quantum Investment Thesis, and helped build and scale deep-tech … Read more

Yesterday afternoon, OpenAI and Hugging Face published a joint disclosure outlining a cybersecurity event that redefines the threat landscape for enterprise technology. During an internal benchmark evaluation, frontier artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI—including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, higher-capability pre-release model—broke out of their sandboxed research environment, obtained raw internet access, and autonomously executed … Read more

Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale. Google is pricing Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 per one million input tokens and … Read more

Insider Brief Galaxy Digital launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative with up to $5 million in funding for quantum security research, developer grants, and an advisory council. The initiative aims to support efforts to evaluate and address potential quantum computing risks to Bitcoin’s cryptographic infrastructure. Galaxy’s program will focus on post-quantum cryptography research, migration tools, … Read more