Microsoft made an amazing announcemnet with a new 4D error correcting code that reduces (again) the required physical qubits to create a logical one. On the investment front, QuantWare added $4.5M to its Series A (now totaling $27M) to scale its VIO QPU chips and global open architecture partnerships, while Photonic Inc. committed £25M for a UK R&D hub advancing error-corrected silicon spin qubits, and OrangeQS raised €12M to industrialize qubit testing and diagnostics. QuantumCTek launched China’s first domestically-developed control system for 1,000+ qubits—cutting costs below half of imports and supporting national error correction ambitions—with plans to deploy across leading institutions. IonQ and Kipu demonstrated the largest hardware-based quantum protein folding to date (up to 12 amino acids) and advanced non-variational quantum optimization using its 36-qubit trapped-ion platform. IonQ also updated its roadmap with the latest acquisitions and the plan to reach 2 million qubits by 2030. Academia Sinica opened Taiwan’s first eight-inch quantum chip foundry and test facilities, addressing reproducibility and fabrication scale, and AWS KMS rolled out FIPS 203 ML-DSA quantum-resistant signatures for critical digital security. IBM was recognized by IEEE for the FFT’s transformative impact—its legacy now reflected in hybrid quantum-classical algorithms unlocking quantum advantage. Flatiron Institute and Harvard employed IBM’s Eagle 127-qubit machine for quantum chemistry intractable classically, and OrangeQS and QuantWare both signal an industry-wide pivot to resolving bottlenecks around testing, yield, and error correction.