Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, and most agents still share credentials; and … Read more
Insider Brief Quantum Source demonstrated a deterministic single-atom platform for generating high-fidelity polarization-entangled photon pairs in the robust quantum singlet state. The team showed that the entangled photons maintained their fidelity after transmission through more than one kilometer of unstabilized optical fiber without active polarization control or feedback. The technology aims to support future quantum … Read more
Insider Brief Digital Catapult welcomed 11 organisations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP) to explore practical quantum computing applications across industries. The programme, delivered with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s SparQ initiative, will test quantum use cases in areas including finance, healthcare, defence, logistics, and transport. Participants including NatWest, RSSB, … Read more
Insider Brief Haiqu appointed Denise Ruffner as Vice President of Business Development and Commercial Operations Worldwide to support the commercialization of its quantum application software platform. Ruffner brings previous quantum industry leadership experience from IBM Quantum, Cambridge Quantum Computing, IonQ, and Atom Computing. The appointment will support Haiqu’s efforts to expand adoption of its Agentic … Read more
Insider Brief Bloq Quantum partnered with Turkish technology training company MIUUL to expand its quantum software infrastructure and quantum machine learning education efforts in Turkey. The partnership will integrate Bloq Quantum’s enterprise platform into MIUUL’s Quantum Machine Learning curriculum, giving students hands-on experience with quantum computing workflows. MIUUL will serve as an official training partner … Read more
Insider Brief PsiQuantum appointed Rob Soderbery as Executive Vice President and Sriram Sitaraman as Chief Information Officer as the company expands its leadership team and operational capabilities. Soderbery will focus on advancing PsiQuantum’s silicon photonics platform and scaling engineering and operational efforts, while Sitaraman will lead global IT infrastructure, security, and digital transformation. The appointments … Read more
Insider Brief ESA-ESRIN has installed its first quantum computer, Equal1’s Bell-1 system, to explore hybrid quantum-classical computing approaches for Earth observation challenges. The six-qubit silicon spin qubit system will be integrated with ESA’s high-performance computing infrastructure to test quantum algorithms using real Earth observation datasets. The project aims to evaluate where quantum computing can provide … Read more
Insider Brief Quantum networking startup Arq has raised a $1.4 million pre-seed funding round led by Ground State Ventures, with participation from Big Sur Ventures, to accelerate development of quantum repeater technology for the future quantum internet. Arq is developing a multiplexed quantum repeater based on rare-earth-doped crystal quantum memories and photon-pair sources, designed to … Read more
Insider Brief Researchers demonstrated a new class of room-temperature quantum materials that selectively transmit or suppress different quantum states of light by engineering “allowed” and “forbidden” statistical bands, a capability that could support future quantum technologies and energy applications. The study showed that plasmonic metacrystals made from arrays of gold nanoantennas can manipulate the statistical … Read more
By Aldo Romero, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University The Conversation Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another. That seems obvious, because in the world we see around us, light appears to follow … Read more