FINOS Emerging Technologies with Peter Smulovics 2026 July

FINOS Emerging Technologies with Peter Smulovics 2026 July

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FINOS Emerging Technologies with Peter Smulovics 2026 July

In this edition of our special bi-weekly FINOS Zenith / Emerging Technologies SIG highlight, Peter Smulovics (Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley and FINOS Zenith Lead) delivers a comprehensive breakdown of the major shifts reshaping deep tech. Peter explores why artificial intelligence has transitioned from a standalone category into the primary horizontal layer powering quantum fault tolerance, spatial interfaces, physical robotics, and fusion energy.

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🕒 Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: AI as the Universal Horizontal Enabling Layer
1:15 Quantum Computing Shift: Moving from Physical Qubits to Fault-Tolerant Logical Units
1:55 Commercial Quantum Moats: IBM’s $10B Commitment & Microsoft’s Majorana 2 Lifetimes
2:45 Accelerating Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Targets to 2028–2029
3:10 Quantinuum’s IPO, Non-Abelian Anyons & Protected Universal Gates
4:10 QuEra’s Fault-Tolerance Roadmap & D-Wave’s Gate Model Transition
5:05 Spatial Computing Evolution: Snap Ambria Specs, Qualcomm Reality Elite & TART
6:40 Enterprise Spatial Upgrades: Apple visionOS 27 & Meta Luxottica Smart Glasses
8:00 Orbital Infrastructure: Space Tech Commercialization & Artemis Timelines
8:50 Physical AI & Industrial Robotics: NVIDIA Halos, BMW Figure 03 Deployment & Jetson Thor
10:50 Photonic AI Accelerators: Running Generative Models on Optical Chips
11:15 Energy Infrastructure: US DOE Fusion Roadmap & Microreactor Criticality Milestones
12:30 Brain-Computer Interfaces: Paradromics BCI Feasibility & Medtech Innovations

📊 The Paradigm Shift: AI as the Horizontal Enabling Layer
The definition of "emerging technology" has fundamentally inverted. Artificial intelligence is no longer viewed as a isolated software vertical; rather, it has become the underlying operational layer enabling rapid iteration across quantum error correction, spatial computing platforms, physical robotics, and orbital manufacturing.

🏗️ Key Technological Breakthroughs Analyzed:Logical Quantum Computing:
The industry has moved away from physical qubit vanity metrics toward fault-tolerant architectures, topological anyon gate protection, and accelerating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) deadlines to 2028–2029. Ambient Spatial Computing: Heavy VR headsets are giving way to AI-native smart glasses, cross-compiler spatial platforms, and advanced lighting/splatting spatial rendering engines. Physical AI & Autonomous Hardware: Full-stack safety frameworks (such as NVIDIA Halos) and Jetson architectures are driving humanoids (like Figure 03) directly into automated automotive manufacturing plants.

⚙️ Why This Matters for Financial EngineeringCryptographic Agility:
Hyper-scalers accelerating PQC targets to 2028 require financial systems to immediately audit and upgrade legacy encryption standards. Spatial & Physical Operations: Integrating ambient spatial interfaces and AI-native hardware expands the operational boundary for risk management, quantitative trading setups, and physical asset tracking.

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 62

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 62

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 62

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The biggest homelab mistakes we’ve made, and what we learned from them.

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs62/

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This Week in Space 222

This Week in Space 222

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This Week in Space 222

The new space age is upon us, and This Week in Space leaves no topic untouched. Every Friday, join Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine, Rod Pyle and Managing Editor of Space.com, Tariq Malik as they explore everything related to the cosmos.

You can find more about TWiT.tv and subscribe to our full shows at https://podcasts.twit.tv
Join our community at Club TWiT: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

About us:
TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce over 30 hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and more.

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AI Advocate Tutorials

AI Advocate Tutorials

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AI Advocate Tutorials

There’s a better way to find and fix frame drops. 🔍🧠

AI performance tools for Meta VR speed up your whole profiling workflow, from capturing a trace to fixing the scene. Less time debugging, more time building.

Here’s the toolkit:

💡 Meta Quest Runtime Optimizer tells you what’s eating your frame budget and lets you test changes before committing.

🤖 Meta VR CLI lets your agent capture traces from your headset and compare across builds.

🥽 Immersive Debugger lets you debug through conversation while you’re still in-headset.

🔌 32 open-source agent skills that plug into your preferred AI coding assistant.

🔗 Full toolkit at the links in the comments.

#MetaQuest #VRDev #GameDev

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How Project Akrites Is Building a Global Open Source Security Response Team | CRob, OpenSSF

How Project Akrites Is Building a Global Open Source Security Response Team | CRob, OpenSSF

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How Project Akrites Is Building a Global Open Source Security Response Team | CRob, OpenSSF

AI-powered tools have compressed vulnerability discovery from weeks to hours. The same open source libraries powering banks, hospitals, and critical infrastructure are being scanned independently by hundreds of organizations, and every day those findings sit uncoordinated is a day attackers have a window.

In this exclusive interview with Swapnil Bhartiya at TFiR, Christopher "CRob" Robinson, CTO of OpenSSF and Chief Security Architect at the Linux Foundation, introduces Project Akrites, a new neutral coordination layer designed to responsibly route AI-generated vulnerability findings to upstream open source maintainers before public disclosure.

Key Topics Covered:
– How LLM-generated vulnerability reports evolved from AI slop to near-professional quality between late 2024 and mid-2025
– Why uncoordinated scanning by thousands of independent actors creates a race condition between defenders and attackers
– How Project Akrites differs from OpenSSF and where each fits in the secure software development lifecycle
– The role of open-weight models in confidential, steerable vulnerability analysis versus frontier commercial models
– How Akrites supports CRA compliance obligations and finds stewards for abandoned or end-of-support open source projects

Read the full story and transcript at www.tfir.io

#OpenSSF #OpenSource #VulnerabilityDisclosure #CyberSecurity #LinuxFoundation #SupplyChainSecurity #AISecurity #ProjectAkrites #DevSecOps #SoftwareSupplyChain #OpenSourceSecurity #CRA #ResponsibleDisclosure

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Introducing Agent Plugins

Introducing Agent Plugins

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Introducing Agent Plugins

Introducing Agent Plugins, an open standard developed in collaboration with partners across the AI ecosystem.

Bundle Agent Skills and supported MCP server configurations into plugins you can use across ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code.

Get started: https://agent-plugins.org

Chapters:
00:00 Why agent packaging needs a standard
00:20 Introducing Agent Plugins
00:39 Package structure, skills, and MCP servers
01:03 Portable across products
01:19 Scope and getting started

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How AI agents reproduced ICML 2026 papers

How AI agents reproduced ICML 2026  papers

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How AI agents reproduced ICML 2026  papers

We just wrapped up the 2026 ICML Reproduction Challenge, with more than 1,200 participants & their agents! More than 2,000 different papers were reproduced or falsified (1/3 of all of the papers at the conference). Participants created ~13k repos ~3TB of artifacts. This is likely the biggest attempt to reproduce a major AI conference!

In this livestream, we are announcing the winners of the ICML 2026 Agents Reproduction challenge. We will be awarding prizes (Hugging Face credits) to the top 4 participants.

🎉Congratulations to all our winners, and thank you to everyone who joined us in the reproduction challenge.

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A Software Engineer’s Guide to Scaling Robotics – OpenCV Live 219

A Software Engineer's Guide to Scaling Robotics - OpenCV Live 219

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A Software Engineer's Guide to Scaling Robotics - OpenCV Live 219

One robot is a demo; a hundred robots is an operations problem. Civ Robotics CTO Amit Moran walks through the software practices that keep a distributed rover fleet alive in the field — pinned builds, heartbeats on everything, remote restarts, and the mission data that saves you after the fact.

OpenCV is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit in the United States. See how you can support open source CV & AI: http://opencv.org/support/

Watch along for your chance to win during our live trivia segment, and participate in the live Q&A session with questions from you in the audience.

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