This week saw major institutional investment and strategic milestones in quantum technology, most notably the UK’s announcement of over £1 billion in funding, including £670 million dedicated to quantum computing applications. The National Quantum Computing Centre secured a long-term 10-year settlement, reflecting the UK’s ambition to surpass classical supercomputers by 2035. Similarly, India’s DRDO and IIT Delhi achieved a breakthrough in free-space quantum secure communication over 1 km, with a secure key rate of 240 bits/second. Google’s Quantum AI team achieved experimental color code error correction on superconducting qubits, highlighting improved logical qubit efficiency, while Andrew Tranter’s team demonstrated record 50-bit precision in quantum phase estimation on a 56-qubit ion-trap device—progressing precision benchmarks but still limited in scale. The world’s first photonic quantum computer was deployed to orbit by a university-led team, seeking to validate quantum edge hardware in extreme conditions. Quantinuum perfected magic states and demonstrated first set of error corrected quantum gates promising scalable fault tolerant universal quantum computing by 2029.