NTT Bet Real Money on a Room-Temperature Quantum Computer With a Million-Qubit Promise
NTT signed a capital alliance with University of Tokyo spinout OptQC to build a photonic, room-temperature quantum computer of the million-qubit class by 2030.
Palantir’s Stock Ripped 30% and the Bears Went Quiet: What ‘AI Sovereignty’ Actually Means for Your Money
Palantir beat, raised guidance and jumped about 30%. Here is what ‘AI sovereignty’ means, and the valuation catch the hype cycle skips.
One Good Demo Proves Nothing: The pass^k Test Your Agent Keeps Failing
Your agent worked once in the demo. Run it ten times and count the all-success rate. That number, pass^k, is the one that decides if you can trust it.
OpenAI Is Pulling the Plug on Atlas: Rescue Your Browser Agent Before 9 August
ChatGPT Atlas stops working on 9 August 2026. Here is what happens to your agentic browsing, and the migration checklist to run this week.
MCP Apps: Your Tools Can Draw Their Own Buttons Inside Claude Now
MCP Apps lets your tools render real forms and dashboards inside Claude and ChatGPT. Here is what changed and how to build one this week.
From 2 August, if a bot talks to you in the EU, they legally have to tell you
The EU AI Act’s Article 50 transparency rules took effect on 2 August 2026: AI disclosure, deepfake labelling and enforcement, with fines up to 3% of turnover.
Cloudflare gave every AI agent its own computer, a wallet and a domain this week
Cloudflare’s second Agents Week (3 August 2026) shipped the plumbing for AI agents: a virtual computer per agent, funded wallets, private mesh and more.
Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max: a 2.4-trillion-parameter frontier model, and the weights are coming
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max on 3 August 2026: 2.4T parameters, a 1M-token window, open weights promised, and pricing well under Claude Opus 5.
AI for Business
Second Opinion: The Hotel Price Was Never Set by a Human. Here Is the Data Behind the Curtain
Hotel and Airbnb prices come from algorithms, not people, and the pro data behind them is getting cheap. A second opinion on Angus Sewell’s vibe-coded booking edge.
AI for Business
Second Opinion: Your AI Keeps Choking on Your CRM. The Fix Is Not a Bigger Model
More context makes your AI worse, not better. A look at Angus Sewell’s three-layer AI-native CRM, the research that backs it, and where the build gets fragile.