This week saw significant global investments and strategic partnerships driving quantum technology advancement. In India, QpiAI secured $32 million in Series A funding—co-led by the $750 million National Quantum Mission and Avataar Ventures—strengthening India's quantum ecosystem with its 25-qubit system, future 64-qubit upgrade, government clients, and industry-first profitability. In the Nordic region, EIFO and the Novo Nordisk Foundation directed €80 million to establish QuNorth and purchase Magne, the world’s most powerful commercially available quantum computer using logical qubits, from Microsoft and Atom Computing. The European Commission proposed forming an ultra-scale AI Gigafactory and a dedicated Quantum Pillar in EuroHPC, marking a major policy push for Europe’s quantum infrastructure. The Wellcome Sanger Institute announced a focus on ultra-scale genomics with quantum computing, underscoring the technology’s growing research relevance. In industry updates, Rigetti achieved 99.5% two-qubit gate fidelity in its modular 36-qubit system, while CSIRO, with academic partners, marked advances in quantum sensing, AI integration, and a room-temperature diamond quantum computer with Quantum Brilliance and Pawsey. On the research front, a 161-author team led by Morteza Aghaee presented experimental evidence of the challenges with error rates and parity measurements in Majorana qubits, while a new validation method successfully certified quantum behavior with up to 73 qubits, providing a fresh benchmark for quantum-advantage certification. Q-CTRL demonstrated its quantum gravimetric navigation system on a moving naval vessel, setting new standards for resilient, real-world sensing. In a critical reminder of the limits of quantum “supremacy,” researchers Gutmann and Neuhaus matched quantum factoring records using a 1981 VIC-20 and other “modest” resources such an abacus, sparking debate on the practical cryptanalytic impact of quantum devices.