Insider Brief Main Sequence Ventures has promoted Alejandra Romero to Principal, reinforcing its investment focus on advanced computing hardware, semiconductors, quantum technologies and AI infrastructure. Since joining the firm in 2023, Romero has led investments in companies including Q-CTRL, Diraq and Quantum Brilliance, co-authored Main Sequence’s Quantum Investment Thesis, and helped build and scale deep-tech … Read more

Yesterday afternoon, OpenAI and Hugging Face published a joint disclosure outlining a cybersecurity event that redefines the threat landscape for enterprise technology. During an internal benchmark evaluation, frontier artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI—including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, higher-capability pre-release model—broke out of their sandboxed research environment, obtained raw internet access, and autonomously executed … Read more

Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale. Google is pricing Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 per one million input tokens and … Read more

Insider Brief Galaxy Digital launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative with up to $5 million in funding for quantum security research, developer grants, and an advisory council. The initiative aims to support efforts to evaluate and address potential quantum computing risks to Bitcoin’s cryptographic infrastructure. Galaxy’s program will focus on post-quantum cryptography research, migration tools, … Read more

Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab competes at the frontier.The model, … Read more

GPU memory is the most expensive resource in production AI, and it’s also the one running out fastest. Long context windows and multi-turn conversations force AI models to repeatedly recompute information they’ve already processed, consuming GPU memory and compute that could otherwise serve additional users or generate new responses.Instead of treating GPU memory as the … Read more

“The new PRD are the evals,” Xavi Amatriain, Expedia Group’s first chief AI and data officer, told the VB Transform 2026 audience last week in Menlo Park. “So basically, you encode what you want the product to do through your evals, which might include red teaming evals and all kinds of other things, which already … Read more

Presented by Atlassian Most companies are approaching AI adoption backwards by optimizing how individuals use AI instead of how teams work together, said Dr. Molly Sands, head of the Teamwork Lab at Atlassian, during a fireside chat with VentureBeat senior technology contributor Sam Witteveen at VB Transform 2026.Sands leads a team of behavioral scientists and … Read more

Insider Brief The U.K. government has abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology while elevating AI Minister Kanishka Narayan to Cabinet, signaling that artificial intelligence will become a central priority even as oversight of other advanced technologies, including quantum, is reorganized. The restructuring raises questions about how Britain will coordinate its long-term quantum strategy, … Read more

Insider Brief Singapore’s DIS and DSTA have partnered with IBM to explore quantum computing approaches for mission planning and logistics optimisation challenges. The collaboration will provide DIS and DSTA engineers with hands-on experience using IBM quantum computing resources to evaluate potential applications. The initiative aims to build quantum computing expertise in Singapore’s defence ecosystem and … Read more