Infleqtion claims 30 entangled logical qubits on Sqale system
Infleqtion says it created 30 entangled logical qubits on its Sqale quantum computing system, a company-reported step toward operations across error-protected quantum bits. A logical qubit encodes information across multiple physi...
NFM Lending faces lawsuit after acknowledged cyber incident
NFM Lending faces a class-action lawsuit after acknowledging a cybersecurity incident, The Tech Edvocate reports. Former customer Sheneka Smith alleges that the mortgage lender failed to maintain reasonable safeguards for customer...
Chinese local governments offer incentives to AI filmmakers
Reuters reports that Chinese local governments are offering computing vouchers, rent waivers and dedicated funding to attract filmmakers using artificial intelligence. These incentives reduce the cost of computing and premises for...
BottleCap releases reasoning model with shorter outputs and an accuracy tradeoff
BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, a version of Qwen3.8-27B tuned to use fewer tokens while working through answers. BottleCap reports an average 37.2% reduction in thinking tokens across 12 benchmarks, while avera...
Island closes $400 million Series F at $6.4 billion valuation
Enterprise software startup Island has closed a $400 million Series F round led by Evolution Equity Partners, valuing the company at $6.4 billion. Prysm Capital, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Cyberstarts, Insight Partners an...
Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero
Databricks announced Thursday that it has acquired Row Zero, a startup whose cloud spreadsheet handles more than 1 million live rows. Its finance team had been using Row Zero alongside Genie, Databricks' AI agent for asking questi...
