Insider Brief IonQ and QuantumBasel found that a hybrid quantum-classical AI model matched or beat selected classical methods while showing potential energy advantages at larger scales. Tests on IonQ’s Forte Enterprise system found quantum energy use rose roughly linearly with qubit count, with a projected crossover against GPU simulation near 34 qubits. The results are … Read more

Insider Brief The Bloch Quantum Tech Hub has secured nearly $55 million in combined public and private funding, including a $30 million U.S. Economic Development Administration grant, to establish a domestic quantum manufacturing supply chain across Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. The initiative will fund projects to help quantum companies scale manufacturing, integrate regional manufacturers into … Read more

A single AI agent conversation can look flawless scored on its own and still point to a broken product. That gap is driving a shift in how enterprises evaluate agents, away from scoring individual traces and toward comparing cohorts of users against a baseline.At VB Transform 2026, Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain; Hui Zhang, CTO … Read more

Zillow, the real estate technology company, doesn’t get one conversation with its customers. They move from a phone screen to a loan officer to a real estate agent, sometimes over months or years, and expect the context to follow them. A single chatbot could never carry that thread.At VB Transform 2026, Zillow SVP of Engineering … Read more

Insider Brief Interlune demonstrated its Cold Capture technology can produce 99% pure helium-3 from Grade A helium using cryogenic separation methods. The company says the technology could increase U.S. helium-3 availability for applications including superconducting quantum computing systems. Interlune is developing Cold Capture for terrestrial helium processing while targeting future helium-3 extraction from lunar resources. … Read more

Enterprise AI is facing an ROI paradox. While throwing more compute at the strongest foundation model works well in product experiments, the costs become unbearable when the product is deployed in production.A new paper from researchers at Writer provides a solution that is accessible to engineering teams. The study takes a systematic look at optimizing … Read more

Insider Brief Maybell Quantum announced plans to establish operations at New Mexico’s Roadrunner Quantum Lab, adding cryogenic infrastructure and local jobs to the state’s quantum ecosystem. The company will deploy four dilution refrigerators at the facility to provide low-temperature testing capabilities for quantum startups and researchers. Maybell joins Qunnect and QuEra Computing as quantum companies … Read more

Insider Brief Researchers from Ghent University and imec highlighted micro-transfer printing as a method for integrating different material systems into silicon photonics platforms. The study shows that micro-transfer printing can enable heterogeneous integration of materials such as III-V semiconductors and lithium niobate with CMOS-compatible photonic technologies. The approach could support future photonic systems for applications … Read more

Insider Brief BTQ Technologies and TIDAL PWR announced a collaboration to develop a trusted quantum data center reference architecture for future AI, HPC, and quantum computing infrastructure. The partnership will focus on quantum data center design principles, post-quantum security requirements, procurement standards, and deployment frameworks. The companies aim to help data center operators prepare for … Read more

Insider Brief The Israel Innovation Authority launched a call for proposals to establish a national quantum computing R&D infrastructure providing industry and academia access to multiple quantum computing platforms. The planned infrastructure will integrate at least three quantum processing technologies and support benchmarking, application development, algorithm research, and technology evaluation. The initiative aims to accelerate … Read more