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IBM said it will bring 750 new quantum, AI, and data science jobs to the University of Illinois’ Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago.

According to coverage in Crain’s Chicago Business, a significant portion of the hiring will be through an apprenticeship program with City Colleges of Chicago. City Colleges will support 500 apprentices and IBM has committed to hiring qualified graduates into technical roles. The program includes a $19 million incentive to IBM from the state of Illinois.

The program was also covered by Bloomberg.

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Using quantum oracle sketching and classical shadows techniques, Oratomic demonstrated an algorithm that “circumvents the data loading and readout bottleneck to construct succinct classical models from massive classical data.” The company claimed that a small quantum computer of polylogarithmic size can perform large-scale classification and dimension reduction better than exponentially larger classical systems that require superpolynomially more samples and time for the same calculations.

Oratomic is led by a murderers’ row of quantum computing researchers from Caltech — including Dolev Bluvstein, Manuel Endres, and John Preskill — and universities like the University of Illinois and Harvard.

In a recent paper published on arXiv, the team demonstrated “four to six orders of magnitude reduction in size with fewer than 60 logical qubits” on single-cell RNA sequencing and movie review sentiment analysis applications.

This work was covered in New Scientist.

Classiq and WISER (the Washington Institute for STEM, Entrepreneurship and Research) developed and benchmarked advanced quantum algorithms for simulating coupled harmonic oscillator systems that was recognized as one of the Top 5 Quantum Algorithm Papers of Winter 2026 by PennyLane.

The team will host a webinar on the project on Wednesday, May 6.

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