So some researchers finally managed to create a fusion reactor that results in a net gain in energy; the US Energy Secretary is set to hold a media briefing in a couple minutes to discuss it. It's still below the level needed to actually result in a net gain in
usable energy (the heat produced by the reactor is 20% greater than the energy input, so it's currently not good for anything beyond being a radioactive heater), but it's apparently an important milestone.
EDIT: I could only find brief blurbs from semi-sensationalist media outlets previously, hence no links, but it looks like
this article dropped just as I was posting. I had suspected it wasn't
truly a net gain in energy when I read they had used a laser (modern lasers are rather inefficient), and it looks like that's the case - but the amount of energy from the fusion reaction did indeed exceed the amount of energy coming from the laser, which was indeed the goal.