Iran's military claimed its latest strikes targeted a US ammunition depot in Kuwait, bridges, and fuel reserves in Jordan.

July 18 — Turing Quantum unveiled QAgent at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC). The company says QAgent is the world’s first photonic-quantum-based, industry-deployable quantum-classical hybrid agent platform, exposing large language models and agents as a single scheduling interface. Built on Turing Quantum’s proprietary photonic quantum computing stack, QAgent integrates a hybrid quantum-classical compute layer, the DeepQuantum quantum AI programming framework, a quantum algorithm library and industry toolkits, and supports an end-to-end workflow from natural-language input and task decomposition to coordinated quantum-agent invocation, quantum compute scheduling and result aggregation. Turing positions the product as a step toward moving quantum computing from frontier research capacity to industry capability and agent-driven commercial services.

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