Quantum/PQC Progress Accelerates

Quantinuum demonstrates 800× better logical qubits. IonQ 256-qubit chip. Alice & Bob €100M with NVIDIA. USTC routing codes cut qubit overhead 8x. IBM acquires HRL Labs for silicon spin qubits. IBM and UChicago demonstrate verifiable quantum advantage. NTT backs OptQC's room-temperature optical quantum computer. Xanadu raised $67.2M. Quantum computing's 'transistor moment' – Majorana 2 and error correction gains accelerate PQC timeline. Eaton brings quantum computing to grid security via AFRL contract; Infleqtion selected to support research.