Insider Brief QuSecure has appointed U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Doug Small (Ret.) to its Federal Advisory Board as the company expands its post-quantum cryptography efforts with government agencies. Small brings more than 35 years of Navy experience, including leadership roles at NAVWAR and Project Overmatch focused on large-scale technology and information systems programs. The appointment … Read more

Insider Brief USC researcher Ibrahim Sabek has received a $627,250 NSF CAREER Award to develop hybrid classical-quantum approaches for improving database system optimization. The five-year project aims to integrate quantum processors into database engines to address complex optimization tasks such as query planning, transaction scheduling, and index selection. The research will explore which database optimization … Read more

Insider Brief An IBM report concludes that governments need sustained investment, workforce development, cybersecurity modernization, resilient supply chains and international cooperation to remain competitive in quantum technologies. The report compares the quantum strategies of the United States, China, the European Union, India and Australia, finding that each pursues a distinct mix of public investment, innovation, … Read more

Insider Brief IBM has introduced new z17 and LinuxONE 5 configurations with expanded deployment options, including rack mount systems that include post-quantum cryptography capabilities. The systems combine AI acceleration, confidential computing, and quantum-safe security features to support enterprise workloads and post-quantum migration efforts. IBM is also adding cryptographic management tools designed to help organizations assess … Read more

Insider Brief The White House will host a July 7 summit with U.S. quantum industry representatives to discuss the Trump administration’s quantum innovation agenda. Senior officials from OSTP, the National Quantum Coordination Office, Commerce, Defense, Energy, NSF and the U.S. CTO’s office are scheduled to participate. The summit follows two Trump executive orders focused on … Read more

By Dr. Kris Naudts, Zeynep Koruturk and Donald Harmitt @ Firgun Ventures. Firgun Ventures is a VC firm investing in Series A/B quantum scale-ups globally. Among the futures promised for quantum computing, chemistry has the strongest claim to arriving first, and being the most direct line to human health. Bringing a new drug to market … Read more

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company, published a sweeping research paper on Sunday revealing that its Claude language models have spontaneously developed an internal structure that mirrors one of the most influential theories of how human consciousness works. The finding, which the company says has already begun reshaping how it monitors its AI systems for safety … Read more

There’s an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they’re building the second.Velocity without discipline and strategic direction is a liability, not an asset. The hardest part of building AI at scale isn’t getting a model … Read more

Insider Brief Bose Quantum completed a pre-IPO financing round worth several hundred million yuan, according to Binance citing Jiemian News. The Shanghai Stock Exchange’s draft STAR Market rules added “quantum” as a sub-industry category for IPO classification. Bose Quantum says it is developing both fault-tolerant universal quantum computers and scalable dedicated quantum computers. Beijing-based Bose … Read more

Insider Brief MagiQware raised €575,000 in pre-seed funding to develop AI-driven software for fault-tolerant quantum computing. The company uses reinforcement learning to optimize magic state factories, a key component in reducing quantum error-correction overhead. Early results cited in the LinkedIn post show up to a 40% reduction in circuit length for targeted magic state factories. … Read more