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IBM and The University of Chicago Demonstrate Quantum Advantage, Establishing Trusted Quantum Computation on Logical Circuits

July 30, 2026 6:00 AM EDT

Scientists used a new error correction method to encode 70 logical qubits and crack a classically intractable problem.

The quantum computation finished in approximately 15 minutes a task that would demand infeasible amounts of time with leading classical computing methods.

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. and CHICAGO, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: ... More