Insider Brief Quantum Rings data show users are running larger quantum circuits while price, speed and hardware performance increasingly shape where workloads are executed. The 95th-percentile circuit grew from 20 to 96 qubits, although the median remained at six qubits and most recognized circuits focused on testing hardware. Rigetti’s Cepheus-1-108Q processed 57% of jobs as … Read more

Guest Post By Ryan Kirkley, Founder & CEO, Global Settlement Holdings. A temporal asymmetry lies at the heart of financial infrastructure. Settlement systems and payment rails are built to run for thirty to fifty years, and most of what moves the dollar today was last built forty years ago. Fedwire settled an average of $4.6 … Read more

Insider Brief Col. Reginald M. Harris, a retired U.S. Army officer and former Chief of Staff of U.S. Army Cyber Command, has joined Qtonic Quantum to lead its federal and defense government affairs. Harris will represent Qtonic Quantum across the Department of War, military commands, DHS, the Intelligence Community, federal agencies, defense contractors and systems … Read more

Insider Brief The sixth annual City Quantum & AI Summit will bring leaders from technology, defense, finance, government and research to London’s Mansion House on Oct. 7. The program will examine quantum and AI applications and risks across cybersecurity, finance, life sciences, space and national security. The summit will emphasize plain-language discussions, cross-sector networking and … Read more

Insider Brief Meissner raised $2.6 million in pre-seed financing to develop superconducting materials for quantum computing, fusion energy and other applications. The startup combines machine learning, quantum simulations and laboratory testing to identify materials that could operate at higher temperatures and with fewer performance problems. Meissner plans to begin testing its leading material candidates at … Read more

When large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, developers typically assume the model lacks the required facts. Engineering teams diagnose the error as missing knowledge. The standard response is to increase model size, expand training data, or build complex retrieval architectures.A new study by researchers at Google Research and Technion demonstrates that the knowledge is often not … Read more

Insider Brief Symmatrics has launched the voluntary AI & Post-Quantum Readiness Pledge, bringing organizations together to commit to steps toward stronger cryptographic resilience. The pledge asks signatories to inventory cryptographic assets, assess harvest-now-decrypt-later risks, develop NIST-aligned PQC migration plans, engage suppliers and report progress to leadership or boards. The initiative launched with 10 founding signatories … Read more

Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He built an agent himself. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran.His Azure OpenAI email assistant auto-resolves about 60% … Read more

It’s only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The two names refer to the same underlying model. Fable … Read more

Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier models running in the cloud and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs — routing sensitive data to the local machine so it never leaves the device.The company says it … Read more