This has been one of those weeks that really moves the needle. We have officially entered in the race for the logica qubits. Alice & Bob producing 100 logical qubits on a 758 cat qubits chip. But meanwhile Quantinuum and Honeywell raise $300M to continue their work (they were the first ones to announce advances in error correction last year, albeit at much lower scale than QuEra or Alice & Bob.The Research Council of Finland is investing €13 million into the Finnish Quantum Flagship (FQF). And QphoX raises €8M in the Netherlands. The WEF has released their blueprint, which I believe is a must read for any business and technology leader in the quantum industry. And NATO kicked off their quantum program as well, trying to add a quantum cybersecurity alliance to their ranks.A team of researchers has proposed hybrid digital-analog learning algorithms for Rydberg atom arrays, showing promise for improved variational quantum learning. In another study, researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, ETH Zurich, and EPFL, led by Gabriel Aeppli, found that qubits with long lifetimes can exist in dense, cluttered settings. Japanese chip manufacturer Rohm and venture company Quanmatic are collaborating to enhance the electrical die sorting process in semiconductor production using quantum computing. Q-CTRL is partnering with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to apply quantum solutions in the field of geosciences, and Accenture and SandboxAQ are partnering to deliver AI and quantum computing solutions for cybersecurity. Lastly, a group of researchers has been able to demonstrate subexponential speedup on Simon’s algorithm exploiting the hidden abelian subgroups of the problem.