OpenAI has made a significant update to its most widely used language model, GPT-5.5 Instant, which is the default in the free version of ChatGPT. The company announced the upgraded version of GPT-5.5 Instant yesterday on X, calling it “much more fun to talk to” and saying it is “better at understanding the intent behind … Read more

Insider Brief Lockheed Martin is investing in quantum navigation sensors that could work with GPS to provide more precise and resilient positioning when satellite signals are blocked, jammed or spoofed. The company says quantum sensors can operate independently of satellite signals and may help reduce drift in inertial navigation systems used on defense platforms. Lockheed … Read more

Insider Brief WISeKey and SEALSQ’s joint venture Quantisimo has signed a non-binding letter of intent with GigCapital8 to explore a business combination that would create a Nasdaq-listed quantum technology company. The proposed transaction values Quantisimo at approximately $575 million pre-money, with plans to expand through acquisitions targeting a valuation of up to $2 billion, subject … Read more

Insider Brief AQSolotl and QuantrolOx have formed a strategic partnership to integrate quantum control hardware with machine learning-based automation software for scalable quantum computing systems. The collaboration will combine AQSolotl’s Chronos-Q control hardware with the QuantrolOx Quantum EDGE platform to automate calibration, reduce manual tuning and improve qubit stability. The companies plan to benchmark the … Read more

Insider Brief An opinion piece in The Economist argues that quantum computing is one of the clearest cases for targeted U.S. industrial policy because of its national-security implications and immature supply chain. The authors say the Trump administration’s quantum investments take an interesting path because they support multiple computing architectures rather than placing a single … Read more

The Conversation by Domenico VicinanzaAssociate Professor of Intelligent Systems and Data Science, Anglia Ruskin University In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. Each atom is far smaller than anything the naked eye could ever see, yet … Read more

Mistral AI on Tuesday released OCR 4, a document intelligence model that moves beyond raw text extraction to return structured representations of entire documents — complete with bounding boxes, block-type classification, and per-word confidence scores. The release marks Mistral’s fourth generation of optical character recognition technology in roughly 15 months and lands at a moment … Read more

AI agent orchestration platforms are popping up like weeds these days, but London-based AI transformation startup Mindstone’s Rebel might be among the most promising I’ve come across. That’s because the system, which officially launched this week, is a local-first, agentic AI operating system distributed under a “Fair Source” license, allowing teams of under 100 users … Read more

Shopify built an LLM proxy that gives every engineer access to multiple AI providers — with automatic failover when any one of them goes down, changes, or disappears. When Claude Fable 5 shut down, Shopify’s engineers didn’t go into panic mode. The proxy shifted them to Claude Opus or GPT 5.5 automatically, without interrupting their … Read more

AI agents are increasingly proficient at executing business tasks autonomously, but IT leaders are cautious about granting permissions to access enterprise systems. Part of the challenge lies in how AI reliability is measured. Industry standards often rely on EVAL scores, which provide a static snapshot of performance rather than a measure of overall reliability. These metrics … Read more