Artificial intelligence news

IBM today kicked off the IBM Sports Tech Startup Challenge at Web Summit Vancouver, marking the first showcase in a global initiative to find and accelerate cutting-edge AI startups transforming the world of sports.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced two new managed services – Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud – to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and run security-forward, scalable and predictable virtualization environments.

At Think 2026, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new capabilities delivered through IBM Enterprise Advantage, a first-of-its-kind asset-based consulting service that helps clients build and operate their own hybrid-AI platforms.

Aramco (2222.SE) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced their intended collaboration on opportunities to advance artificial intelligence, agentic AI, automation, material science and other mutually agreed domains in the industrial sector. The collaboration builds on a longstanding relationship and strong alignment around innovation, operational excellence, and solving complex, large-scale challenges.

Available 19 June 2026, IBM zSecure Secret Manager enables organizations to move from manual, fragmented certificate processes to policy-driven automation of certificate renewal to reduce...

Enterprises don’t need another way to build agents—they need a way to operationalize the agents they’ve already built. In large organizations, agents are being created everywhere—across...

We are excited to introduce IBM Data Gate for Confluent, a new capability that brings IBM Z data to the centre of the modern, real-time data foundation powering enterprise AI. IBM Z systems...

The rise of AI is intensifying pressure to address digital sovereignty, while also reshaping what organizations require from it. For years, sovereignty conversations centered on where data...

At NVIDIA GTC, IBM, Nvidia and Nestlé showcased what’s possible when GPU acceleration meets open data architecture—demonstrating up to 5x faster analytics workloads while reducing costs by as...

Think 2026, 4 - 7 May in Boston, MA, is where bold organizations are making the agentic leap—redesigning their businesses with AI at the core to unlock unprecedented ROI. This year’s event...

Today, at its annual Think conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced its most comprehensive expansion of enterprise AI and hybrid cloud management capabilities to date. Products and capabilities unveiled today include the next generation of IBM watsonx Orchestrate for multi-agent orchestration, IBM Confluent to bring real-time data to AI, IBM Concert platform for intelligent operations, and IBM Sovereign Core for operational independence.

At Think 2026, IBM announced the general availability of IBM Sovereign Core, a new software platform designed to help organizations build and operate AI-ready sovereign environments and verify their control — giving enterprises and governments an end-to-end approach to digital sovereignty.

Scientists at Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have used IBM quantum computers and two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to simulate protein complexes spanning up to 12,635 atoms. These are the largest-known simulations of biologically meaningful molecules performed with quantum hardware yet, and signal that quantum computers are maturing into useful scientific tools which can help solve fundamental problems in biology, chemistry, and life sciences.

This year, we celebrate the 40th year of the strategic partnership between IBM and Oracle. To mark the milestone, we are advancing our partnership to help meet our customers’ evolving needs and...

Migrating to the cloud was supposed to make infrastructure easier to provision and manage. For many enterprises, the reality is more complicated. New pain points emerged that undermine the...

At IBM, we’ve always believed that your data shouldn’t just sit in a silo; it should be the engine that powers your enterprise intelligence. That’s why we launched IBM Db2 Genius Hub: a...

As enterprises move from experimenting with AI to operationalizing it at scale, one reality becomes clear: AI must work reliably where enterprise data lives. For many organizations that means...

At Think 2026, we’re introducing the next stage in the autonomous evolution: we’re taking Db2 Genius Hub from an AI that recommends to one that acts, under human supervision and within defined...

On 19 January 2026, IBM announced Enterprise Advantage, a new asset-based consulting service designed to help organizations scale secure, governed agentic AI across their business operations...

At IBM Think 2026, we are announcing private preview for IBM Cyber Fraud, a new AI-assisted fraud investigation solution designed to help organizations move from manual, fragmented investigations...

Tune in live Tuesday, May 5 at 8:30 a.m. ET as IBM (NYSE: IBM) CEO Arvind Krishna opens IBM Think 2026 and explains how AI is becoming the defining force in business, what it takes to lead, and how quantum computing is emerging as the next frontier.

A new global study from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value finds that the accelerating pace of AI is pushing CEOs to redesign how C-suite roles are structured to drive greater business impact across the enterprise.

As the Formula 1 season arrives in United States for the first time in 2026 for the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Ferrari today introduced – new and enhanced AI powered capabilities to the Scuderia Ferrari app experience. The highly interactive features were designed to bring Scuderia Ferrari's passionate global fanbase of nearly 400 million Tifosi closer than ever to the team, the drivers and the cars they love – on race day and beyond.

Next week at Think 2026, we'll outline the forces shaping the Enterprise AI Race, forces that apply with particular urgency to private equity. The organizations gaining ground today are not the ones betting on a single model. They are the ones redesigning how their businesses operate, building hybrid architectures that give them control, and deploying AI in ways that orchestrate value that compounds over time.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Dallara Group, a world-leading racing and high-performance vehicle manufacturer, today announced a collaboration to advance vehicle design and optimization using AI and explore the use of quantum computing. The work combines Dallara’s expertise in high-performance vehicle engineering with IBM’s leadership in AI for physics and quantum computing to investigate how to accelerate aerodynamic design and open a path to even more advanced simulation workflows.

IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced the launch of the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, advancing their long-standing collaboration to shape the next era of computing. The new lab expands its scope to include quantum computing, alongside foundational artificial intelligence research, with the goal of unlocking new computational approaches that go beyond the limits of today’s classical systems.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the global availability of IBM Bob, an AI-first development partner built for enterprise teams. Bob doesn’t just help developers write code fast. It works across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), from planning and coding to testing, deployment, and modernization, with the governance and security controls enterprises need.

In a world shaped by AI‑driven systems and increasingly complex supply chains, leaders are under pressure to show exactly how data moves, how systems behave, and who has the authority to make...

By bringing together AI capabilities from both companies, Google Cloud’s strength in developer-centric design with IBM’s strengths in hybrid cloud, data management, and automation, we can help clients build a more unified and flexible foundation for their AI and cloud strategies.

This is where IBM Consulting and Adobe are deepening our collaboration. Together, we’re pairing Adobe’s Customer Experience Orchestration capabilities, like Adobe Real-Time CDP, with IBM’s agentic AI expertise, orchestration tools like Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator and IBM watsonx Orchestrate, and responsible governance to help companies identify customer intent quickly and act before the moment passes.

The $2.3 trillion global sports economy is experiencing robust growth, with annual revenues projected to reach $8.8 trillion by 2050. Like all other industry leaders, sports leagues, teams, and...

IBM will host the first-of-its-kind ‘Masters at Madison Square Park’ immersive viewing experience for all four days of the Masters Tournament, Thursday, April 9 – Sunday, April 12. Fans in New York City will have the exclusive opportunity to play a replicated iconic hole on an AI-powered golf simulator and watch the action unfold with live viewing of the Tournament all weekend long. Limited edition merchandise and specialty themed food and beverage items are part of this experience, as well.

IBM today announced a strategic collaboration with Arm to develop new dual‑architecture hardware that helps enterprises run future AI and data intensive workloads with greater flexibility, reliability, and security.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that 11 of its artificial intelligence (AI) and automation software solutions — including several products from the watsonx portfolio — have received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization.

IBM and ETH Zurich announced today a 10-year collaboration to advance the next generation of algorithms at the intersection of AI and quantum computing. This initiative represents the latest milestone in the long-standing collaboration between the two institutions, further strengthening a scientific exchange that has helped create the future of information technology.

IBM and NationSwell developed Responsible Use of AI for Social Impact playbook. This playbook offers practical guidance for nonprofits, funders, universities and technology partners seeking to adopt AI in ways that are ethical, safe and useful in real-world settings.

Insight powered by the IBM Institute for Business Value President Trump recently signed the Cyber Strategy for America. It is one of the most significant shifts in national cybersecurity posture...

ElevenLabs and IBM announced they are collaborating to bring ElevenLabs Text to Speech (TTS) and Speech to Text (STT) to IBM watsonx Orchestrate, an agentic AI orchestration platform, providing clients with tools to deliver richer, more natural voice interactions designed to improve agentic AI-driven experiences while also addressing the security and scalability needs of enterprises.

IBM recently published a playbook on maximizing business value with the mainframe. This shares our proven approach for driving innovation with our clients, based on decades of experience. It starts with the most important step: choosing the best-fit platform for applications within your hybrid cloud environment.

In consulting, our role has always been to help organizations redesign how they operate. So, when AI is fundamentally changing how work gets done across every sector, the impact on our profession is especially profound.

On March 20, the White House released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, a legislative blueprint covering seven areas, from innovation and child safety to workforce development and energy infrastructure. It puts American AI leadership squarely at the center of national policy. This is a significant step, and an important one.

IBM and the Masters Tournament today announced new and enhanced digital fan features now available on the award-winning Masters digital platforms. The watsonx AI-powered capabilities – the latest in a 30-year collaboration between IBM and the Masters – are designed to bring the rich history and on-course excitement of the Tournament to life for millions of golf fans around the world.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced at GTC 2026 an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises operationalize AI at scale. Advancing efforts across GPU-native data analytics, intelligent document processing, on-premises and regulated infrastructure deployments, cloud, and consulting, the collaboration aims to give enterprises the data foundation, infrastructure, and expertise to move AI from pilot to production.

SEI®(NASDAQ: SEIC) today announced it has joined forces with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to accelerate enterprise transformation through agentic AI and automation and modernize how it operates, innovates, and delivers value to clients—reinforcing the company’s commitment to sustainable growth.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released the 2026 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, revealing that cybercriminals are exploiting basic security gaps at dramatically higher rates, now accelerated by AI tools that help attackers identify weaknesses faster than ever. IBM X‑Force observed a 44% increase in attacks that began with the exploitation of public-facing applications, largely driven by missing authentication controls and AI-enabled vulnerability discovery.

The AI gold rush has a familiar rhythm: breathless demos, headline‑grabbing valuations, and a parade of tools promising to solve every problem with a prompt. Global AI spending is projected to...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Deepgram today announced a collaboration to integrate Deepgram’s industry-leading speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities into IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate generative AI solution.

AI has sparked a new round of conversation about COBOL, with tools emerging that claim to translate legacy code and, with it, solve the modernization challenge. It is worth being precise about...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how enterprises unlock value from the systems and data that power their most critical operations. Across industries, organizations are looking to move beyond...