Insider Brief Utah Gov. Spencer Cox launched the Utah Quantum Initiative to accelerate quantum research, commercialization, workforce development and advanced manufacturing across the state. The initiative establishes a Quantum Coordination Council to coordinate state, university and industry efforts and compete for private investment and federal quantum funding. Utah plans to leverage existing strengths in quantum … Read more
Insider brief The Quantum Kid released a Best Of episode highlighting conversations with leading scientists and innovators explaining concepts across quantum science and technology. The podcast’s first year featured discussions with figures including Peter Shor, Steven Chu, John Preskill, Scott Aaronson, and other researchers working across quantum computing and related fields. The show aims to … Read more
Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi offered a blueprint for one of the pressing challenges facing the enterprise today at VB Transform 2026: securely deploying AI agents, like the open-source OpenClaw, into production environments.Unlocking this enterprise value requires a mindset shift. The industry needs to move past vague terminology and focus on concrete enterprise roles. “People talk a … Read more
Presented by MongoDB We have been building databases as an industry for roughly 60 years. We have been building AI agents, in the form most people mean when they say the word today, for about 18 months.Sit with that ratio for a second, because it explains almost everything about the state of agentic development right … Read more
Insider Brief Pasqal announced a demonstration using a photonic integrated circuit developed with Aeponyx to generate laser-based optical traps that captured individual atoms in a neutral-atom quantum processor. The demonstration produced four optical traps from a single photonic chip and achieved atom lifetimes comparable to Pasqal’s existing bulk-optics systems. Pasqal aims to scale the integrated … Read more
Insider Brief Infleqtion has been selected by Eaton to provide quantum computing technology support for research into improving U.S. electrical grid resilience through an Air Force Research Laboratory-funded program. The collaboration will evaluate how quantum algorithms and neutral-atom quantum hardware can support grid contingency analysis and reliability planning. Eaton and Infleqtion will explore quantum approaches … Read more
Insider Brief Cloudflare for Government has achieved FedRAMP High certification and GovRAMP Moderate authorization, expanding access to its security, performance, AI and developer services for public-sector organizations. Cloudflare also announced plans to pursue Department of Defense Impact Level 4 authorization for its government platform. The platform supports Zero Trust, digital resilience and post-quantum encryption, with … Read more
Content filters can block unsafe output. They cannot tell you whether an agent was authorized to issue that refund, touch that production system, or commit the company to an external action. Those are different problems, and most enterprises are only solving the first one.An AI agent can follow its instructions perfectly and still take an … Read more
Insider Brief Researchers demonstrated that dissipation, typically a source of errors in quantum systems, can be engineered to generate and maintain steady-state entanglement between superconducting qubits. The team developed a technique called synthetic squeezing that accounts for real-world noise and hardware imperfections, allowing high-quality entanglement without physically transporting qubits in delicate quantum states. Researchers are … Read more
Insider Brief U.S. lawmakers are reportedly seeking a 68% increase in annual military quantum spending to $567 million as competition with China intensifies. The congressional push builds on more than $2 billion in planned Trump administration investments and new federal measures supporting quantum development and post-quantum cybersecurity. Rising government support comes as quantum companies seek … Read more