Intuit was an early pioneer in the usage of agentic AI, but its path to success has hardly been a straight line.At VB Transform 2026, Intuit VP of AI Nhung Ho described how the company rebuilt its agent architecture twice in the span of about four months, first moving from a fleet of specialist agents … Read more

OpenClaw has become one of the most widely adopted agentic frameworks, but it has yet to prove itself at enterprise scale. Agents need real credentials — API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts — to work effectively, and Brex found that traditional guardrails couldn’t contain what those agents were doing with them.Brex set out to overcome … Read more

Legacy infrastructure, not the models themselves, is what’s actually slowing AI agents down. That was the shared conclusion of three infrastructure leaders — from LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk — at VB Transform 2026.The panel brought together Animesh Singh, senior director of AI platform and infrastructure at LinkedIn, Desiree Gosby, SVP of corporate technology services and … Read more

Insider Brief QTREX Quantum appointed Dr. Shlomit Chappel-Ram, former Nano Dimension R&D executive, as an independent director to support its AME-based quantum infrastructure development. Dr. Chappel-Ram brings experience in additively manufactured electronics, materials engineering, and scaling complex hardware technologies from development to production. The appointment supports QTREX’s efforts to advance high-density quantum connectivity and application-specific … Read more

Insider Brief The Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative launched TN QuantumWorks, a K–12 quantum education initiative designed to introduce students to quantum technologies and career pathways. The programme will initially be piloted in Hamilton County Schools before expanding across Tennessee through partnerships with education, government, and industry organizations. TN QuantumWorks will provide age-appropriate quantum learning experiences ranging … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers from the University of Chicago, Harvard, Stony Brook University and Quantinuum demonstrated the first universal gate set using non-Abelian anyons on quantum hardware, showing the approach can in principle perform any quantum computation. Using Quantinuum’s 54-qubit trapped-ion processor, the team combined anyon braiding and fusion to implement the operations needed for universal … Read more

Insider Brief Singapore-based quantum-safe cybersecurity company pQCee raised US$3.9 million in a seed funding round co-led by SGInnovate and Lotus One Investment to accelerate global expansion and development of its post-quantum security products. The funding follows a US$2.8 million institutional round in 2022 and will support hiring, expansion across Asia, and entry into the United … Read more

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that the company says is now the largest open-source AI model in the world, and one that benchmarks show performs neck-and-neck with the most powerful proprietary systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.The release, timed to land just … Read more

Presented by Ping Identity Enterprises need to treat zero trust security architecture as an immediate requirement for AI agents rather than a long-term goal, says Andre Durand, CEO and founder of Ping Identity. Zero trust, the security model built on the assumption that no user, device, or system should be automatically trusted, requires continuous verification … Read more

Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and provider-native retrieval has quietly overtaken the dedicated vector databases that define the category — yet a majority of enterprises have already watched their agents produce … Read more