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Recurring updates also cover IBM Consulting client work, industry and cloud collaborations, research milestones in quantum-centric supercomputing, AI-enabled application experiences, and IBM Institute for Business Value studies on enterprise adoption and governance of AI.
Marist University and IBM (IBM) have launched a new Innovation Incubator featuring an on-campus IBM z17 mainframe to expand AI-driven research and student career preparation across disciplines.
The incubator’s initial projects include AI-driven marketing experiments using autonomous agent teams, quantum optimization research for real-time financial portfolio management, and AI applications to improve polling methodologies and voter participation modeling. The initiative extends a 50-year Marist–IBM partnership from enterprise computing into a university-wide AI and digital innovation ecosystem that connects students, faculty researchers, and IBM experts, giving students hands-on experience with enterprise-scale technology designed for high performance, security, and reliability.
IBM (IBM) released a new global IBM Institute for Business Value CHRO study on how AI is reshaping workforce skills, accountability and HR’s role.
The survey of 1,500 CHROs and 8,800 employees finds 60% of employees worry AI is eroding their skills, with critical thinking most often cited as declining. While 71% of CHROs view the ability to supervise, validate and override AI as essential, only 29% of employees rank judgment as important. CHROs highlight critical thinking (57%) and human judgment (48%) as key capabilities, yet 46% of organizations do not involve the CHRO in defining AI strategy.
Organizations that clearly define workflows as human-led, AI-assisted or AI-executed report 18% risk reduction and 20% quality improvement. The study also shows 72% of organizations make limited or no use of AI within HR itself, and firms with mature HR AI capabilities are nearly twice as likely to report more positive business KPIs.
Anderon (IBM) finalized a $1 billion CHIPS and Science Act award with the U.S. Department of Commerce to accelerate R&D in U.S. quantum wafer manufacturing.
The IBM company operates a 300-millimeter pure-play quantum wafer foundry in Albany, New York, and is backed by an additional $1 billion investment from IBM. Anderon focuses on manufacturing specialized wafers for high-performance superconducting qubit arrays, quantum I/O signaling, and readout signal chain components, and plans to expand to other quantum modalities. The company has begun running its first quantum wafers through the facility, indicating early production capability and the ability to translate pre-production research into commercial-grade technologies.
IBM (IBM) and NASA released the open-source NASA‑IBM Lunar Foundation Model on September 10, 2026 to support lunar exploration and research.
The AI model is trained on decades of multi-instrument lunar observations and aims to help identify potential ice deposits, volcanic formations and craters. Technical results cited show up to 22% lower error in predicting high-potential ice areas and up to 19% better crater detection at context scale versus the SwinV2-B baseline, with comparable or better accuracy and lower fine-tuning cost. IBM and NASA also released a unified, open lunar dataset aggregating over 30 spatially aligned layers from nine instruments across four missions.
IBM (IBM) and Lockheed Martin (LMT) have established a quantum innovation hub at ETH Zurich, which plans to host Switzerland's first IBM Quantum System Two at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center in Lugano.
The system, operated by IBM and powered by an IBM Quantum Nighthawk processor, is expected to be deployed by the end of 2026. ETH Zurich will provide access, expertise and resources for Swiss industries, startups and academia, including cloud access to IBM's broader quantum fleet. The initiative aims to accelerate research, develop new algorithms and industrial use cases, and support quantum education and workforce development across Switzerland.
IBM (IBM), Cleveland Clinic and RIKEN have been named finalists for the 2026 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for simulating a biologically meaningful protein system of 12,635 atoms using quantum computers and supercomputers.
The team combined IBM Quantum Heron processors at Cleveland Clinic and RIKEN with the Fugaku, Miyabi-G and ROQUO supercomputers in a quantum-centric supercomputing workflow. Earlier work achieved a 303-atom protein simulation; the method was later scaled about 40 times while improving accuracy by 210 times, enhancing binding energy calculations relevant to drug discovery.
IBM (IBM) released new U.S. research on K‑12 AI readiness and launched the IBM K-12 AI leaders fellowship for school and district leaders.
The Morning Consult survey of more than 2,000 K-12 educators and parents finds AI is already widely used in classrooms, especially in secondary grades, but educator training and system readiness lag. Weekly AI use is reported by 76% of middle school and 73% of high school educators, versus 45% in elementary grades, yet only 20% of K-12 educators say they have received extensive AI training. Just 24% of educators and 16% of parents believe the U.S. education system is adapting very well to AI. Parents strongly want a say in classroom AI use, with 77% seeking input but only 20% clearly understanding existing guidance.
The new IBM fellowship will start this fall with up to 100 participants in the greater New York area, providing AI learning via IBM SkillsBuild, curricula, capstone projects and expert facilitators, with plans to expand to additional U.S. states in its first year.
IBM (NYSE: IBM), the official AI and Cloud sponsor of the US Open, will host a free, AI-powered fan experience in Madison Square Park, New York City, from Thursday, September 10 to Sunday, September 13 during Championship Weekend. The pop-up will feature AI-driven tennis activations such as IBM Serve Speed, Calling the Shots ping pong tables with AI match recaps, and an AI Photobooth, along with immersive live match viewing and official US Open merchandise.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it has completed the acquisition of HRL Laboratories, a research and development institution with expertise spanning quantum computing, quantum sensing, advanced communications, electronics, manufacturing, and materials science. The deal combines IBM’s superconducting quantum computing leadership with HRL’s strengths in silicon-spin qubits and related technologies.
According to IBM, HRL adds capabilities in quantum materials, cryogenics, control electronics, packaging, and interconnects that are expected to support IBM’s quantum hardware roadmap. The acquisition aligns with IBM’s plans for fault-tolerant systems such as IBM Quantum Starling, targeted around 2029, and Blue Jay in the mid-2030s, and complements collaboration opportunities with Anderon, IBM’s pure-play quantum wafer foundry. Boeing and General Motors, HRL’s former owners, will continue to partner with IBM and HRL on quantum and advanced technology applications. Financial terms were not disclosed.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a next-generation dual-architecture processor for future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, designed to run both IBM and Arm® operating systems and applications on the same cores. Built on a 2 nm node, it features 11+ cores at over 5.7 GHz, AI inference accelerators, an on-chip data processing unit for I/O, and large caches to support demanding enterprise workloads.