Insider Brief Photon Queue has raised an oversubscribed $4 million seed round led by Playground Global to accelerate development and deployment of its room-temperature quantum memory technology for quantum computing and networking systems. The company said its quantum memory devices store and synchronize single photons without requiring cryogenics, vacuum systems or quantum transduction, and are … Read more
Insider Brief Researchers at Penn State and the University of Toronto are studying gold-based quantum materials, including gold nanoclusters and crystalline structures, for potential applications in quantum computing, sensing, and communication. A Penn State-led project reported spin-polarized photon emission from gold nanoclusters, while University of Toronto researchers are investigating gold structures grown through molecular beam … Read more
Insider Brief SAXON Q announced commercial availability of its SXQ128 and SXQ512 diamond-based NV-center quantum computing systems, which operate at room temperature without cryogenic cooling or vacuum infrastructure. The systems use SAXON Q’s diamond manufacturing and multi-core architecture to support quantum workloads including chemistry simulations, optimization, and quantum machine learning. The company says its NV-center … Read more
Insider Brief IonQ and QuantumBasel found that a hybrid quantum-classical AI model matched or beat selected classical methods while showing potential energy advantages at larger scales. Tests on IonQ’s Forte Enterprise system found quantum energy use rose roughly linearly with qubit count, with a projected crossover against GPU simulation near 34 qubits. The results are … Read more
Insider Brief The Bloch Quantum Tech Hub has secured nearly $55 million in combined public and private funding, including a $30 million U.S. Economic Development Administration grant, to establish a domestic quantum manufacturing supply chain across Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. The initiative will fund projects to help quantum companies scale manufacturing, integrate regional manufacturers into … Read more
A single AI agent conversation can look flawless scored on its own and still point to a broken product. That gap is driving a shift in how enterprises evaluate agents, away from scoring individual traces and toward comparing cohorts of users against a baseline.At VB Transform 2026, Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain; Hui Zhang, CTO … Read more
Zillow, the real estate technology company, doesn’t get one conversation with its customers. They move from a phone screen to a loan officer to a real estate agent, sometimes over months or years, and expect the context to follow them. A single chatbot could never carry that thread.At VB Transform 2026, Zillow SVP of Engineering … Read more
Insider Brief Interlune demonstrated its Cold Capture technology can produce 99% pure helium-3 from Grade A helium using cryogenic separation methods. The company says the technology could increase U.S. helium-3 availability for applications including superconducting quantum computing systems. Interlune is developing Cold Capture for terrestrial helium processing while targeting future helium-3 extraction from lunar resources. … Read more
Enterprise AI is facing an ROI paradox. While throwing more compute at the strongest foundation model works well in product experiments, the costs become unbearable when the product is deployed in production.A new paper from researchers at Writer provides a solution that is accessible to engineering teams. The study takes a systematic look at optimizing … Read more
Insider Brief Maybell Quantum announced plans to establish operations at New Mexico’s Roadrunner Quantum Lab, adding cryogenic infrastructure and local jobs to the state’s quantum ecosystem. The company will deploy four dilution refrigerators at the facility to provide low-temperature testing capabilities for quantum startups and researchers. Maybell joins Qunnect and QuEra Computing as quantum companies … Read more