Insider Brief WISER and E.ON completed a research collaboration exploring hybrid quantum machine learning approaches for electricity demand forecasting. The project evaluated quantum models using an anonymized dataset of 103 residential customers on both simulators and real quantum hardware. Researchers found that projected quantum kernel models improved forecasting accuracy against selected classical baselines under near-term … Read more

Insider Brief Rigetti Computing announced that it will release its second quarter 2026 financial results on August 6, 2026, after market close. The company will host a conference call the same day to discuss financial results and provide a business update. Investors will be able to access the webcast and replay through Rigetti’s investor relations … Read more

Insider Brief Digital Catapult and the National Quantum Computing Centre have selected 11 organisations for the third cohort of the Quantum Technology Access Programme to explore industrial quantum applications. The cohort includes organisations from financial services, healthcare, transport, defence, logistics, and infrastructure sectors testing quantum computing use cases through guided experimentation. Participants will evaluate quantum … Read more

Insider Brief Terra Quantum and Apex.AI have demonstrated an implementation of NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography for secure communication between an Apex.AI-based robotic software environment and a cloud control system. The integration applies quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms while maintaining existing software architectures and communication workflows used by connected intelligent systems. The companies said the implementation provides a pathway … Read more

Insider Brief Connecticut Innovations reported a record fiscal year with $66.5 million in cash proceeds from portfolio exits, $76.1 million in total investment activity proceeds, and $59.3 million invested across 75 early-stage companies and venture funds that helped leverage $1.2 billion in additional capital. Major portfolio milestones included Halda Therapeutics’ $3.05 billion acquisition by Johnson … Read more

Guest Post By Sudiptaa Paul Choudhury is Chief Marketing Officer at QNu Labs, a global leader in quantum cybersecurity, TEDx speaker and a LinkedIn Top Voice. Quantum computing has stopped being a laboratory curiosity. McKinsey’s Quantum Technology Monitor 2026 estimates that quantum computing could unlock up to 2.7 trillion US dollars in economic value worldwide … Read more

Insider Brief Bloq Quantum and Sree Buddha College of Engineering (SBCE) have formed a strategic partnership to establish an undergraduate quantum computing hub featuring a cloud-based quantum lab, curriculum integration, faculty training, and research collaboration. The partnership will provide SBCE students with hands-on access to Bloq Quantum’s cloud-based quantum computing platform, along with industry masterclasses, … Read more

Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI’s … Read more

Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. The company announced that GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT desktop application on macOS and Windows, integrating directly with agentic systems like Codex and ChatGPT Work (which … Read more

Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today’s launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlying architecture to robotic vision and actions.The Freiburg, Germany-based … Read more