Three stories worth tracking. TreQ brought online a multi-vendor Open-Architecture Quantum testbed in Oxfordshire that can swap between eight different processor + control + software combinations via software alone — no recabling, no thermal cycling — integrating Rigetti's Novera, QuantWare boards, and a Maybell cryostat in a single three-rack footprint. The bet is that vendor-neutral interfaces matter more than any single hardware bet as the field consolidates. Separately, Quantum Machines and Qruise pushed the calibration story further: they automated the bring-up of a 21-qubit QuantWare Contralto QPU at the Israeli Quantum Computing Center down to 15 minutes — calibration normally takes days of hand-tuning by experts. And in commercial news, Qubit Pharmaceuticals (Paris) and Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies announced a two-year partnership running quantum chemistry algorithms — including the first experimental quantum Markov Chain Monte Carlo on Quantinuum's trapped ions — directly aimed at drug discovery workflows.