Insider Brief Quantum Machines has acquired Hungary-based PCB Engineering, establishing a new R&D hub in Budapest and marking its second European acquisition in six weeks. The acquisition expands Quantum Machines’ engineering capabilities as the company continues developing quantum control systems used across multiple quantum computing modalities and customer segments. Quantum Machines said the additional engineering … Read more

Insider Brief Element Six and Orbray are advancing wafer-scale single crystal diamond toward commercial-scale production for applications including quantum technologies, 6G and power electronics. The partners have established a reproducible process for 3-inch diamond wafers and are developing larger 4-inch substrates. Element Six is preparing 2-inch diamond wafers for volume production as the collaboration shifts … Read more

Guest Post by Dr. Kris Naudts, Zeynep Koruturk and Donald Harmitt @ Firgun Ventures. Firgun Ventures is a VC firm investing in Series A/B quantum scale-ups globally. Australia’s quantum reputation has rested for a quarter of a century on world-leading quantum research talent, exemplified by the likes of Michelle Simmons, CEO of Firgun Ventures’ portfolio … Read more

Insider Brief Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Pathfinder, a 20-qubit IQM Radiance system, marking the laboratory’s first commercially procured quantum computer and IQM’s first quantum computer installation in the United States. The on-premises system is integrated with ORNL’s high-performance computing environment to support development of hybrid quantum-HPC tools and applications in areas such as … Read more

Insider Brief Atom Computing has secured more than $300 million in total funding, including a $100 million Series C round and a $100 million Letter of Intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce, to accelerate development and deployment of fault-tolerant quantum computers. The company recently demonstrated quantum error correction on a neutral-atom quantum computer and … Read more

Insider Brief OVHcloud announced new quantum initiatives at France Quantum 2026, including a collaboration with Welinq and the expansion of its Quantum Platform with Quobly’s technology. OVHcloud and Welinq will work on quantum networking and orchestration technologies aimed at connecting heterogeneous quantum computing systems and supporting future quantum data center architectures. Quobly’s Alloy Pioneer silicon-spin … Read more

For decades, data professionals have struggled with the challenge of managing both operational and analytical databases in a unified approach that doesn’t introduce latency and performance degradation.Agents made the problem structural. A system that reasons continuously and acts on live data cannot tolerate a pipeline between itself and the information it needs to act on.At … Read more

Insider Brief: The Quantum Kid uses the curiosity and questions of nine-year-old co-host Kai to make quantum technologies more accessible to younger audiences and the wider public. In the latest episode, Kai explores what it takes to build and fund a quantum startup, including the scientific, engineering, hiring and commercial challenges founders face while the … Read more

On Sunday, a team of nine researchers at Sina Weibo — the Chinese social media giant better known for its microblogging platform than for cutting-edge artificial intelligence — quietly posted a 14-page technical report to arXiv that sent shockwaves through the AI research community. Their claim: a language model with just 3 billion parameters can … Read more

Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate “long-horizon” autonomous coding and engineering tasks. Available immediately on Hugging Face, the Z.ai API, and more than 20 third-party coding environments, the model boasts a highly stable 1-million-token context … Read more