Enterprise AI has entered a new era. Organizations are rapidly moving beyond assistants that answer questions to autonomous agents capable of reasoning, invoking tools, accessing enterprise applications, coordinating with other agents, and completing multi-step business workflows with minimal human intervention.This shift represents a fundamental change in how software operates. Traditional applications execute predefined logic written … Read more

Insider Brief Pasqal shares rose 95.2% to $19.11 in the French quantum computing company’s first day of Nasdaq trading. The company went public through a merger with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II that provided approximately $360 million in cash. Pasqal plans to use the capital to expand system production and deployment, grow commercial operations and advance … Read more

Yuval Boger interviews Michaela Eichinger, a product solutions physicist at Quantum Machines and the author of a widely read quantum computing newsletter. They discuss her transition from academia to industry, her fascination with systems-level views of the quantum stack, and the role of communication in building the quantum ecosystem. The conversation covers the state of … Read more

Insider Brief The Government of Canada has signed a CAD $195 million funding agreement with Xanadu to support advanced manufacturing facilities for photonic quantum computing. The investment represents the full federal portion of up to CAD $390 million in potential support for Xanadu’s Project OPTIMISM, announced in March 2026. Xanadu plans to develop capabilities for … Read more

Presented by Nutanix Autonomous systems that can reason, make their own decisions, and execute actions across an environment introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never built to contain. Treating that risk as a single problem produces incomplete architectures, says Oscar Wahlberg, senior director of product management at Nutanix.”The guardrails to catch a … Read more

Consider an AI agent tasked with a complex enterprise workflow like migrating massive batches of customer records from a legacy CRM to a cloud database. The agent cannot rely solely on its internal context window for a job spanning hours and depends on the runtime layer, aka the harness.This harness provides execution feedback, like server … Read more

Insider Brief Italy’s Council of State upheld the cancellation of a €61.2 million contract awarded to IBM Italia for Campania’s first quantum computer. The court ruled that the regional government improperly extended the bidding deadline and rejected its later claim that a procurement-system malfunction caused the extension. The process will return to the stage before … Read more

Insider Brief New Mexico has added DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) Stage C to a state grant program that provides matching funds to companies conducting the work in New Mexico. Companies receiving the match must commit to performing their QBI Stage C work in the state, which has invested more than $450 million in quantum … Read more

Insider Brief California awarded $9.7 million to expand quantum workforce training, shared testing capabilities, regional coordination and venture support across Southern California. UCLA will receive about $7.6 million to lead the regional quantum network, while California State University San Marcos will receive approximately $2.1 million for education and training. The quantum funding is part of … Read more

Insider Brief As quantum technology matures into a commercial industry, companies increasingly require a legal layer to manage financing, acquisitions, public listings, intellectual property and government-backed projects. Paul, Weiss, Osler and Cooley accounted for about 65% of the publicly recorded lawyer involvement across nine prominent quantum hardware companies, according to Pirical. Quantum-related legal work now … Read more