This week’s quantum computing news highlighted significant progress across investment, research, and commercial readiness. Quanta Computer invested approximately US$50 million for a minority stake in Quantinuum, underscoring sustained industrial confidence despite an auditor issuing an unreasonable opinion on governance. Meanwhile, the Quantum-Safe 360 Alliance (Keyfactor, IBM Consulting, Thales, Quantinuum) released a joint white paper emphasizing the urgent enterprise need for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness, while Marin Ivezic of Applied Quantum reinforced this urgency by forecasting quantum attacks on RSA-2048 cryptography as possible by 2030, supported by recent advances in quantum hardware and error correction. On the research front, Columbia Engineering introduced HyperQ, a virtualization breakthrough enabling up to 40x faster quantum processor turnaround and 10x more jobs per chip, successfully tested on IBM’s 127-qubit system. Pan Jianwei’s team at USTC set a new record by arranging over 2,000 neutral atom qubits in microseconds, tenfold surpassing previous benchmarks, marking a key step for scalable quantum systems. Caltech hinted at innovative quantum memory leveraging sound, and Riverlane cautioned that broad implementation of quantum error correction remains a major bottleneck. These developments, alongside forward-looking analyses by Deloitte and a broad theoretical perspective from John Preskill and colleagues, illustrate a maturing field—yet one still wrestling with practical, architectural, and cybersecurity challenges as efforts shift from demonstration to real-world utility.