Insider Brief Mind Success has launched two software platforms designed to accelerate quantum hardware development through AI-driven materials discovery and predictive hardware modeling. The company’s Quantum Materials Discovery Platform screens more than 150,000 candidate materials and automatically generates density functional theory simulations to evaluate promising options. Its Digital Twin Framework models environmental noise around qubits … Read more

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot wrappers, the control plane enterprises expect is … Read more

Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in virtual private clouds have a strong new contender to consider.Today, Thinking Machines—the highly capitalized American AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati—released Inkling, its first major language model under an … Read more

Insider Brief The Quantum Economic Development Consortium’s 2026 Quantum Technology Showcase on the Hill brought together U.S. policymakers, federal officials and leading quantum companies to demonstrate the growing commercial and strategic importance of quantum technologies. The event followed recent White House quantum initiatives and highlighted quantum computing, communications, sensing and enabling technologies as Congress considers … Read more

Hundreds of enterprise leaders and technical experts packed the main ballroom of the luxurious Hotel Nia in Menlo Park this week for VB Transform 2026, the year’s preeminent conference on using generative AI agents to drive business outcomes. Rachad Alao, vice president of product engineering at the rising Canadian enterprise AI startup Cohere, joined VentureBeat … Read more

Organizations need to transform to meet the needs of agentic AI.Meta VP of Engineering Barak Yagour opened his talk at VB Transform 2026 wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, a small sign of how far AI has already worked its way into physical life. His argument went further: enterprise infrastructure was built for … Read more

Insider Brief QuSecure listed its QuProtect R3 post-quantum cryptography and crypto-agility platform on the AWS Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community. QuProtect R3 helps government organizations discover cryptographic risks, manage security policies, and migrate toward quantum-resilient protections across existing IT and mission-critical environments. The AWS Intelligence Community Marketplace listing provides federal customers with access to … Read more

Insider Brief Aqarios Quantum Technologies AG has begun trading on the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange following its SPAC merger with Fonterelli SPAC 4 AG, becoming what it says is Germany’s first publicly listed pure-play quantum computing company. Founded in 2021 as an LMU Munich spin-off, the company develops the hardware-agnostic Luna software platform for quantum optimization … Read more

Insider Brief High Q Technologies is using a quantum-enabled electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) platform to help accelerate drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders by mapping protein motion in greater detail. The company’s Fathom system uses quantum sensors to capture multiple protein configurations simultaneously, providing researchers with a more complete view of how … Read more

Insider Brief Pasqal appointed Mark Armstrong, a former Hewlett Packard Enterprise executive, as Chief Commercial Officer for EMEA and APAC to lead regional commercial expansion. Armstrong will focus on accelerating customer adoption of Pasqal’s neutral-atom quantum computing systems across industries including energy, finance, advanced materials, and high-performance computing. The appointment comes as Pasqal expands its … Read more