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Straker (ASX: STG) announced a 3-year renewal with IBM (NYSE: IBM) effective 1 January 2026, extendable by one year, with an expected contract value of approximately NZ$28 million (US$16.1m) over the initial term based on anticipated volumes. The deal runs to December 2028 and continues usage-based revenue terms, with IBM retaining a 90-day termination right. The renewal expands the partnership into the IBM Ecosystem Partner network, shifts a significant portion toward AI token billing, and notes ~10,000 IBM users of Straker's AI Slack translation app. The companies will jointly develop customised small language models on IBM Cloud using watsonx and Straker's Tiri platform, with early results reportedly outperforming benchmarks.
Neudesic (NYSE:IBM) announced Digital Workforce Management, an Azure native platform to operate enterprise-scale autonomous and semiautonomous AI agents on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry.
The platform centralizes provisioning, role assignment, monitoring, version control, compliance packs (GDPR/HIPAA/ISO), telemetry, and automated remediation, and is pitched to move organizations from pilots to managed, production-grade agent deployments. The solution is available today for qualified enterprise customers.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced general availability of the IBM Defense Model on October 29, 2025, a purpose-built AI model for defense and national security.
Developed with Janes and built on IBM's Granite foundation models, the solution is delivered via watsonx.ai and is designed for air-gapped, classified, and edge deployments. Key features include defense-specific training using Janes data, ISO 42001-aligned Granite models, continuous intelligence updates, and mission use cases such as planning, reporting, wargaming, and simulation.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) released a September 2025 EMEA survey showing widespread AI-driven productivity gains: 66% of senior leaders reported significant improvements and 41% expect AI ROI in under a year.
Large enterprises report higher adoption (72%) versus SMEs (55%). Key impact areas include software development and IT (32%), customer service (32%), and procurement (27%). Security, privacy and IT complexity were top barriers (68%). Respondents prioritized transparency, interoperability and choice (~85%).
IBM (NYSE: IBM) launched IBM Digital Asset Haven, a platform for financial institutions, governments, and corporations to manage digital assets across custody, transactions, and settlement while meeting sovereignty, security, and compliance requirements.
Key features include transaction lifecycle management across more than 40 blockchains, unified governance and entitlement controls, pre-integrated KYC/AML and yield services, and cryptographic safeguards such as MPC, HSM-based signing with Crypto Express 8S on IBM Z and LinuxONE, and IBM Offline Signing Orchestrator. Developed with Dfns (15 million wallets, 250 clients), the product is planned as SaaS and Hybrid SaaS in Q4 2025 and on-premises in Q2 2026.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) reported Q3 2025 revenue of $16.3 billion, up 9% year/year (7% at constant currency), and said its AI book of business exceeds $9.5 billion. The company posted GAAP gross margin of 57.3% (up 1.1 points) and operating (non-GAAP) margins of 58.7%. Segment strengths included Software $7.2B (+10%) and Infrastructure $3.6B (+17%), with IBM Z up 61%.
IBM generated YTD free cash flow $7.2B, returned $1.6B in dividends in the quarter, and raised full-year guidance to >5% constant-currency revenue growth and about $14B free cash flow. Board approved a $1.68 quarterly dividend (record Nov 10, pay Dec 10, 2025).
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Groq announced a strategic go-to-market and technology partnership on Oct 20, 2025 to deliver GroqCloud inference directly on watsonx Orchestrate, aiming to accelerate enterprise agentic AI deployment.
The partnership plans to integrate and enhance RedHat open-source vLLM with Groq's LPU architecture and to support IBM Granite models on GroqCloud. GroqCloud is described as delivering over 5X faster and more cost-efficient inference than traditional GPU systems, targeting low latency, scalability, and regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, and government.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a new multi-year collaboration with Mission 44, the charitable foundation of Lewis Hamilton, to expand STEM and AI skills training through IBM SkillsBuild.
The program will deliver F1-themed, hands-on learning experiences—including on-site activations at Formula 1 events each year—with the first activation at Circuit of the Americas ahead of the 2025 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix. The partnership supports IBM's goal to provide 30 million people with new skills by 2030 and aims to promote AI, cloud, data analytics and cybersecurity pathways for students and grantee networks such as Girlstart.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced on October 16, 2025 three new AI agents now available on the Oracle Fusion Applications AI Agent Marketplace. Built with Oracle AI Agent Studio, the agents target enterprise automation in Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications: Intercompany Agent, Smart Sales Order Entry Agent, and Requisition to Contract Agent.
IBM also plans complementary HR and supply-chain agents built with watsonx Orchestrate, and said Oracle will make the IBM Granite 4.0 model family available via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science.
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Bharti Airtel and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a strategic partnership on October 15, 2025 to augment Airtel Cloud with IBM hybrid cloud, AI and infrastructure technologies.
The collaboration will let Airtel Cloud customers deploy IBM Power systems as-a-Service (including Power11), support IBM Power AIX, IBM i, Linux and SAP Cloud ERP, and run AI inference with IBM watsonx and Red Hat OpenShift AI across hybrid environments. Airtel will expand India availability zones from 4 to 10 and plans two new Multizone Regions in Mumbai and Chennai.