It is always the same story. "It does not work yet, but we hope it will in the future."
The laser idea uses 100x more power to generate the light necessary. So it is a no go.
The magnetic confinement systems have no way of extracting energy efficiently. So it is also a lost cause.
The 3rd problem is that some experiments use a lot of tritium, without producing any. So there will be no fuel for those soon.

What is very clear is that the science media is presenting this science fiction as far too realistic.
Which shows how biased this all is.

We also see that this is very controlled by ... private investors includes such heavy hitters as
Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs, Legal & General, and Chevron.
People you want in prison and not in control of any energy.

The main problem with the science is that they got the whole fusion model of the sun wrong.
The sun has very clear electrical aspects, which we can see in solar flares. And measure as Zeeman effect.
But due to stupidity of the astronomers any clear evidence about this is ignored.
In that sense we are not further than 1900.